The Sun. — London, England, 1825-01-10 00:00:00

INH U MAN MURDER. We lay before our readers the following par tkulars of a most horrid murder, committed on Thursday last, between Shenky an d Whaddon, in the county of Buckingham. The event has excited astonishing interest for miles about, and urany various and contradictory rumours are in circulation respecting t h e mot i v es which led to . the atrocious deed. The spot chosen for the theatre of this horrid tragedy ,is a part of a very oPeteltsive chase, containing, we believe, about 4,400 acres. It ia—siluate between IThaddon, Winslow , and 13roadsend, and forms one of many areas to be found in different parts of this im mense chase covered with closely matted forest trees and copse-wood. It is, altogether, a dreary and u nfrequented spot, well adapted, to all ap pearance, to the dire scene enacted thereon. The following letter was received on Saturday morn ing by Mr. Stafford, Chief Clerk at Bow-stteet "'Stoney- &radon], Jan. 7, 1325. " ST.B—A murder, under the most horrid and peculiar cir cumstances, was committed at Whaddon, in this neighbour hood, yesterday, in the afternoon ; and I am desired by W. Sfelby Lowndes, Esq., a Magistrate, to -convey to you the par ticulars, and, as near as I can collect, the description of the ?artier; neither of whom are known to any one here. An in quest has not yet been held. The Coroner has summoned a hsry to meet this evening. " It appears from the statement of Wm. Weston (guard of the Eclipse coach), that two men (strangers ttshim) applied at Little erickhill, yesterday, for a conveyance to Birmingham ; a- bargain was made as to price, and they got-on the coach, the guard intending to book them, and take their money, at '6soney-Stratford. The two men, who got on the coach, had. with them a trunk covered with paper, a bundle in a blue and` wi;ita handkerchief, a hat-box, and a gun in a cloth cover. When they reached Shenley, about six miles from Little Ilrickhill, one of the men threw the gun on the ground, and jumped down as the coach was proceeding ; the coach was stopped, and the other followed ; both ran:away. The guard cerried on the trunk, bundle, and hat-box,, and delivered them to the landlord at the Cock Inn. They have not yet been opened, the guard having arrived only this evening. " The two men alluded to were dressed amarly alike, and the guard says, very much resembled each other. They were both dressed in blue coats, waistcoats, and trousers (kind of sailors maser), and had on black hats one had a rough light-colour ed shag great-coat; the other, a very large shooting.jacket. The oldest about 30 years old—the other about 25. The one living has nothing particular in his countenance—the other is so disfigured that his features are not discernible. The murder was committed in Whaddon Chase, near to the residence of Mr. Lowndes ; and was effected by one of the men having beat the other with the butt-end of the gun until his brains were literally beat out. A labouring man, near the spot, heard the blows and the groans, and gave the alarm ; the murderer was in consequence apprehended, and is now in custody. " The object of this communication to you is, that the crime may he made known, in part, and partly that the murderer (Who appears very sullen, and refuses to answer any questions) may be recognized. He once spoke, and said, that he was glad his victim was dead, ' for he should. not have had any of the money ;' as if a division of spoil was. the cause of the hor rible attack. " As soon as the Jury have sat upon the body, if any fresh matter comes ont, I will acquaint you with it; in the mean time 1 shall be glad to bear if any due can be, or is likely to be, riven as to the men, who they are, whence they came, and what is the object of their visit here. hat was in the hat box ; the maker's name is (Jere, 5, Lambeth-walk.' I tun, your obedient servant, " J. F. CONOREVE." THE INQUEST. On Saturday afternoon, the Jury, and Mr. Bunxisast, the county Coroner, who resides at Winslow, assembled at the Haunch of Venison public-house. at .W.hatition. The interest. excited in the neighbourhood was extremely great, and num. hero of person had collected before the house by the time the inquest commenced. The. , name of the deceased maif.was Abraham Hogg; that of the prisoner John Lynn. The Jury having been sworn, were accompanied to the room where the body lay by the Coroner and Mr. Cowley, the sur geon, . who wa called in to attend, the unfortunate deceased. The features of the face were completely disfigured by the many heavy blows inflicted, and partly'by the partial dissec tion which the body had undergone, to enable the surgeon-to pronounce the immediate cause of death. After the Jury had returned to the inquest-room, the following evidence was a&duced:— Thomas Samuel Watts Tarry deposed, 'that he resided a' Church-hill Farm, Whaddon, and was one of the overseers of that parish. On Thursday afternoon, in coming to the vil lage about three o'clock, he heard that a person had been mur dered, and went immediately to assist , in tile search, and the body being found, and the death of the deceased ascertained, he sent notice to the Coroner. The prisoner was in custody of Meecham, by whom, with the aid of others, he had been taken. ELI was immediately conveyed by them to a public-house in Whaddon, known as the Haunch of Venison. Somebody offered him some beer, which witness would not allow him to drink, he had had some before. Prisoner observed, that if it had been poison, he would sooner have drank it than he would the beer. He was left in charge of the constable. During the right he said he wished to• write to his mother, which was al lowed him ; he began the letter with " My dear mother,---I have murdered a man," and after pausing a little in seeming agltation, he tore off the 'tope of the.• paper, throwing what he had written into the tire, and observing, " I can't write any more: it will be too much for my poor mother to bear up against. When the handcuffs were again put on him (they had been taken off to give the prisoner greater facility in writing), he critd out, " Now, indeed, lam done for!" He appeared in great agitation, and it was in vain that those in the room at tempted to calm hint ; both then anti -up to the time of the inquest prisoner made several attempts to dash his head against the wall, and on Friday evening especially, he endeavoured to put an end to his existence by suddenly jumping on a table in the room, and plunging head foremost to the 'floor; his fore head wax much cut, and a quantity of blood and hair remained on the floor. When the prisoner destroyed what he had writ ten to his mother, witness offered to take up the pen and write whatever prisoner should wish to communicate to her ; he, how ever, refused this offer, but without assigning any reason for so doing. Prisoner seldom made an observation beyond the monosyllables " yes," and " no," appearing to shun conversa tion. When witness first met the prisoner, in custody of Meech am, he asked if the unforpnate deceased yet lived ; to which he (the prisoner) replied, " I hope not, for he -would have sold me." The question had not been particularly addressed to the rrisoner. John Meecham was at work ditching in a field close to the chase, on Thursday afternoon last, when he was alarmed by the cry of a person ; he thought that cry was " murder." He im mediately left the ditch, and from an adjoining ga'e '(being concealed by a large oak tree (observed the prisoner, at about the distance of 200 yards, sticking some person on the ground several times, with great violence. The cries of deceased were very faint, and soon afterwards ceased. Saw the prisoner go across the chase towards a-ride, and on his way thither stole at a ditch, where he changed his clothes, and then proceeded into the ride. Witness immediately ran in another direction to the house of a farmer of the name of Clark, whom he acquainted with the circunistance above narrated ; the farmer with his three sons and one of his labourers then accompanied him in pursuit, and they proceeded together across Shenley-common to wards the ride for which he hadseen the prisoner making as they approached the latter the prisoner entered the common from the gate of the ride immediately before them, upon which wit ness running towards him considerably outstripped his com panions • when he was yet about 29 yards from the prisoner, the Latter tried out " Well, how much is your bounty ?" Witness rushed upon -him, and with the assistance of the Clarks and their labourer secured him and conveyed him to Whaddon, h a ving been joined on their way thither by the preceding wit ness. The remainder of the testimony of witness was simply confirmatory of that of Mr. Tarry, with reference to the search after the clothes of the prisoner and the body of the deceased. ' Mr. John Cowles, surgeon of Winslow, Bucks, deposed, that he was called on the Bth Jan., to examine-the body of a man, lying dead at a public - ho use called the Haunch of Venison, in the parish of Whaddon. A contused lacerated wound was observable on the forehead -to the extent -of five incites in length, and two inches in deptheand had evidently been inflicted by violont blows with a blunt instrument ; also another contused wound on the upper part of the face, four incites in length, and three inches in width : there was also another lacerated wound Go the lip, one inch in length, and half an inch in depth. On the lower lip there was a similar wound of nearly the same ex tentftoraenLannother contused wound on the inner part of the left length three inch. All of . thosein inches, and in width half an inflicted by the sa wounds appeared to deponent to have been fraetured_the frontal th me instrument :he upper part of The blows on the forehead bone and lacerated the brain : those on e face fractured_ the temporal, cheek, and nasal boom In his opinion, the death of the man was oces- e • sioned by the blows on the forehead. The CORONER considering the evidence already adduced sufficient to justify hint in committing the prisoner into safe custody, and being extremely anxious tbat he should be con veyed to the county jail at Aylisfibry before dusk, gave direr; tions to the overseers and constables of Whaddon to that effect. and the prisoner was removed in a post-chaise, in which were also two constables, and behind which rode two Overseers of the parish. The evidence of the witnesses was then resumed; the fol lowing is the summary William Weston, the guard4f the'Eclipse coach, from which prisoner and deceased ran away at Shenley on Thursday, spoke to the identity of the property now produced as having been left by them in the coach, and delivered by him the same after ' noon into the care of the landlord of the Cock public-house, at IStoney-Stratford, on his arrival in that town. The were to have booked themselves there for the fare onwards; they did not pay any thing. Mr. Clare, the landlord of the Ceek produced the parcels ; they Were receive' by him on Thursday from Weston. On examination, they contained 12 or 13 pair of stockings, several shirts, handkerchiefs, &c.. Joseph Grace, of Shenley, blacksmith, saw-prisoner and de ceased pats his shop at about hell-past o.le o'clock on the Thursday; they appeared to be q uarrellin. , t' and talked very loud. The prisoner asked deceased " Pray, how much do you think you ought to have for your.shere of the booty ?" The deceased replied mildly, and witness could not catch a single word of his answer. He, however, was quite sure of the iden tity of the prisoner and deceased. Elizabeth Clark ind John and Thomas, her sons, residing between the shop of Grace, at -Shenley, and the scene of the murder on Whatidon.chase e saw prisoner and deceased pass at about two o'clock on Thursday towards the chase : did not hear them say any thing. Shortly after missed a shirt which had been banging.on an adjoining hedge ; has seen it since. .(It was found on .the chase, near the spot where prisoner altered its dress, after the murder.) Wm. Read occupies a cottage at the extremity of the chase most distant from Shenley. Between two and three o'clock on Thursday, prisoner and cieceased -sled there, and asked if they could have any thing to eat and drink ' • offered to get a fry, but prisoner would not allow him; they drank some butter-milk. When they entered, they left a gun, parcel, and umbrella, out side the door, taking them away again on their departure ; they did not stop more than five minutes. Prisoner continually looked round the gown in a suspicious manner ; he appeared friendly with the deceased. When they had left the house, prisoner looked back from some distance. The wife of witness observed, she was sure they were no good. Prisoner had on a pair of top-boote; deceased carried the umbrella ; the prisoner the parcel and gun, which was in a case of green baize. The Cottox en. hortly summed up the evidence, observing that he thought the Jury had sufficient grounds to warrant them in returning a verdict of " NVilful Murder against John Lynn" (the prisoner.)—The Jury immediately returned a vet ; diet to that effect. Before the separation of the Jurymen, a question was moot. ed by Loraine Smith, Esq., relative to the propriety of pub lishing the evidence given on the inquest. He thought it would be at least imprudent. Mr. Congrcve, solicitor, of Sone). Stratford, thought with the worthy magistrate. He consider -d it in the light of ex-parte evidence, and calculated to produce an undue bias. Two gentlemen who attcnded for the Bucks Chronicle and IVindsor and Eton Gazette, Mr.. Cowley (the !surgeon of Winslow), and the Coroner, thought otherwise, and the interference was therefore merely conversational. At half-past 3 p.m., on Saturday,. -the prisoner was brought from his place of confinement by two men, and placed in a post chaise. Ile made no kind of resistance on• having his feet fet tered, merely remarking that he hoped his relations might re ceive a good part of his gains. The unhappy . man then pro ceeded more than half the distance to Aylesbury jail very quietly when he seemed suddenly to awaken to a sense of his truly dreadful situation. He complained that 'be had throughout life been always unfortunate—that he was a miserable wretch, &c., saying at the same time, with horrid imprecations— " I will not live to go to jail,-1 will kill myself." On hearing this, AIL James King, who accompanied the pri soner, asked hint In what manner he could possibly effect it ? llis answer was, If I cannot succeed in doing it instantaneous ly, I will do something which shall cause it." This was said with great agitation, and was apparently succeeded by some derangement of.-mind. He attempted to injure himself in a manner impossible to bealescribed In these Columns. On being remonstrated with on that account, he said, " What is it to you? Do you suppose that your staff gives you authority ?" lie also frequently attempted to: fling himself out of the chaise-window. On reaching the town of Aylesbury, the unfortunate man, be came outrageous, insisting, with great violence and pertinacity, on a trifling request—viz., that his shirt-collar, which had been unbuttoned of his request, should be instantly re-fastened. On arriving at the gaol, he urgently requested that his leo's might be unfettered, assigning•as areason, that he particularly wished to walk Into the gaol. His feet were accordingly unfettered ; and the first use he _made of this partial liberty was to at tempt to throw himself on - the pavement with great violeriee however, he was caught in the arms of an officer named Cooke, and carried, without farther resistence, into the prison-yard. Here, however, he renewed his attempt at self-destruction, as well by endeavouring to dash his head against the wall, as by his former expedient of pitching violently upon the pave ment. To effect these objects he descended to the most frivo lous excuses and assertions, with the vain hope of blinding the vigilance of his keepers: ha had, however, taught them wis dolt; by his previous conduct, and all his efforts towards ob taining the privilege of self-destruction were fruitless. He was removed to leis room, and was shortly afterwards visited by Sir John Dashwocal King, Bart., one of the county magis trates, to whom he complained' loudly of the harsh treatment to which he said he had been subjected—alluding specifically and strongly to the circumstance of his having been compelled to wear the handcuffs. The prisoner appearing tolerably ra tional, the worthy magistrate ordered the immediate removal of them. On Saturday night four men sat up with the prisoner, but even the vigilance of these he evaded ; for during the night, having, or pretending to have, occasion to leave the bed, he rushed violently, against the wall, and by the concussion lace rated the scalp very considerably. Yesterday he appeared quite an altered. man. Mr. Sheriff; the humane Governor of the gaol, made a point of seeing and conversing with him, prin cipally with a view to convince him of the folly and sinfulness of his suicidal efforts. The prisoner appeared affected, and said, ",I will tell you every thing, Sir, when we are alone."— Mr. Sheriff °Grill to send the men away for such purpose, but Lynn observed that an opportunity would soon occur without - .. . the necessity of such a step. - Befoze i:is removal from.Whaddon to Aylesbury, he sail he should,. like to see the body again, which request being granted, he entered the room without the least erabArrassment, weut up to the body, took one of the deceased's hands in his, and looked steadfastly in his face. " How shocking a sight this is !" ob served one of the officers who accompanied him. " Ali ! it is indeed," coolly observedl the prisoner, and then turned about indifferently, and left the room. When first taken, Lynn took from his pocket a revolving boot-heel, making it a present to one of the officers, and desir ing him to take it as &keepsake. On Friday night prisoner requested John King to write a letter for him by his dictation, saying he was ashamed to write himself. King complied, and the prisoner dictated as follows : " Dear Mother—l am sorry to inform you I have bad the misfortune to get into trouble, and am now in the custody of the constables of Whaddon, for killing Abraham Hogg, for a grudge and a few words, because he was going to inform against me. " Your unfortunate son, C. LYNN. " Mrs. Lynn, confectioner, No. 4, Moore-hall-place, Vauxhall." The fatal instrument of destruction is of that description usually denominated a copper cap gun. In the waistcoat pocket of the prisoner Mr. Sheriff found :about two dozen of common pellets. It would seem that prisoner and deceased arrived at Brickhill on Wednesday evening, by the " Express" Liverpool coach ; deceased was to sleep in town, and prisoner at the White Lion public-house; they were both there in the evening ; but the land lord (Mr. Newman) expressed his surprise at their departure on the conversation turning upon murders and robberies. Prisoner did not return to . the White Lion to sleep, as he had said he would. The next day (Thursday), both men got on the " Eclipse" Birmingham coach, and said they were going the whole distance; the guard informed them they could book their places when the coach arrived at Stoney-Stratford.— They had not gone more than six miles when, arriving at Shenley, they bilked the guard and got clear away, leaving. however, sundry articles of clothing,behind them in a burdle and band-box. The guard observed that prisoner and de ceased were.constantly looking round, as if to ascertain whe .ther or not there were any persons in pursuit. From Shepley they proceeded to the Chase. Both Lynn and Hogg have been spirit-coopers ; their fami lies were most intimate, and a nearer connexion than that of friendship had been in contemplation for some time. Prisoner slept soundly for five or six hours.yesterday ' • lie had scarce l y closed his eves during Saturday n i g ht. H e had received a visit (merely self-introductory) from the Rev. C. R. Ashfield, cha plain to the goal ; he appeared gratified with the Reverend Gentleman's kind attention, and earnestly requested a repeti- tion of that favour. It is rather a singular coincidence that Lynn has a relation residing at Aylesbury. On the announcement of that name, aS the one given. by the prisoner, the keeper of the toll-gate at the London entrance to the town applied to the Governor of the gaol for permission to see the prisoner, as he had relations of the, name of Lynn; an interview between them terminated in their painful recognition of each other as first cousins It was intended to delay the interment of deceased for a few days, with a view to the recognition of the corpse; but now that the unfortunate young man is known, this will be unneces7 nary. The coffin was therefore closed yesterday. The number .)f people who have congregated around the fatal spot has been very great. Where the head of deceased lay there is a tuft of 'edge clotted with gore; even yesterday a portion of skull might tx seen adhering to one of the stalks. 'THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the llth Light Dragoone, The pith Light Dragoons, the 13th bight Infantry, the 14th, 38th, 44th, the 87th Regiments of Foot, are expected to embark, the 20th instant, at Gravesend, on board the Bridgewater, East India man, for Bengal. Detachmeets belonging to the 2d and the 37th Regiments Hof Infantry, marched on Saturday from Westminster for liatharn. Detachments belonging to the Ilth Light Dragoons and the loyal Staff Corps, marched on Saturday from Westminster, for Maidstone and Hythe. A Detachment belonging to the Bth Regiment of Light Dm ' goons (Hussars) marched on Saturday from Westminster, for Dorchester Barracks. A considerable Detachment of Recruits arrived on Saturday in London from Scotland, and marched subsequently to Houns low, on its route to the Isle of Wight, where it will arrive on Thursday next. The 31st Regiment will march from Forton Barracks on Thursday next, to embark at Chatham for India, and will he relieved by the 97th Regiment from Winchester. The 99th Regiment is also daily expecte& at Gosport, from Leith, to occupy Haslar Barracks. An order has been received for the 97th Regiment to march from this garrison on Tuesday next, for Gosport. The Regi ment is at present commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Austin, and its departure will be regretted by all who have observed the gentlemanly, social, and unassuming demeanour of the officers, and the uniformly peaceable conduct of the men.— ( Hampshire Ch 7 °nide. ) Orders have this week been issued to the recruiting stations in Ireland, directing that boys not exceeding 17 years, five feet five and a half inches, and men not exceeding 25, five feet aft, may be received for the Army.—( Limerick Chronicle.) CowEs —Detachments of the 49th and :Atli Regiments have embarked. on board the transport Echo, J. Duntborp, for the Cape of Good Hope. [From the Loienoie GAZETTE of Saturday Night.) War-Office, Jan. 7, 1825. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Ensign Richard Bertha lomew .Martin, from the 85th Foot, to be Cornet, vice dteplienik, who exchanges. 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet James Alexander Fullerton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Montgomery, who retires ; Randall Rurnley, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Fullerton. 10th Ditto—Robert Giffard, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dent, promoted. 14th Ditto—Lieutenant Edward Sherlock Gooch to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ormsby, promoted ; Cornet Richard Thomas Gilpin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gooch. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—James Dennis Wright, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Armstrong, pro mored. Sth Regiment of Foot—Brevet Major John S. Simcockes to be Major, without purchase, vice Emes, deceased ; Lieutenant Satnuel Belton to be Captain, vice Simcockes ; Ensign Charles Wood to be Lieutenant, vice Belton ; Arthur L'Estrange, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Wood. 6th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Hood, from lialr-pay 86th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon. 14th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Geo. Evers to be Assistant- Surgeon vice Tvigge, promoted in the 6th Foot. 21st liitto—Lieutenant George Deare to be Captain, by pur clia,e, vice Van Batenburgh, who retires; Second Lieutenant Benjamin Bayly to be first Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Deare ; Lawrence Alexander Spearman, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bayly ; Assistant-Surgeon Geo. Barclay, M.D. front the 35th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dent, deceased. 22d Ditto—Lieutenant George Mun,ro, from half-pay 78th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel Green, who exchanges. 33d Ditto—Captain Charles Schaw, from half-pay 37th Foot, to be Captain, Vice . John Powell Correvont, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 34th Ditto—Captain George Green Nicholls, from the half pay, to be Captain, vice Moyle Sherer, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference. 35th Ditto-- Hospital Assistant David Noyes Macgibbon to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Barclay, .promoted in the 21st Foot. - 55th Ditto—Second Lieutenant Chas. Wightman Sievwfight, from half-pay Rifle Brigade, to be Ensign, vice Malcohn Fur long, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 60th Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Chichester to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barrington who retires; Second Lieutenant David Dickson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chichester ; David Fitz Gerald, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dickson. 67th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Alexander Cumming to be Assistant Sur , eon, rice French, promoted in the 49th Foot. 85th Ditto—" Cornet Daniel Stephens, from the sth Dragoon to he Ensign, vice Martin, who exchanges. 89th Ditto—Captain Edward George Smith, from half-pay 34th Foot, to be Captain, vice Watson Augustus Steele, who exchanges, receivin! , the difference. 90th Ditto—Frederick Eld, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Eyles, promoted. 94th Ditto—Serjeant-Major William Spiller, from the 43d Foot to be Adjutant (with the rank of Ensign), rice Coward, removed from the Service. •2d West India Regiment—Lieut. Connell Vereker Jessop, from half-pay York Casseurs, to be Lieutenant, vice John George Griffiths, who exchanges. UNATTACIIED.—To be bieut.-Colonels of Infantry, by pureiase.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell Wylly, from the 7th Foot, vice Lieut.-Colonel George Land man, ,who retires ; Major John Williams, front the 2d Foot, vice Major-General NVilliarn Gifford, who retires. To be Major of Infantry, by purchase—Captain Sit Thomas Ormsby, Bart. from the 14th Light Dragoons, vice Major- General Wm. Armstrong. BaEvET.—Captain Alexander Gordon Laing, of the Royal Africal Colonial Corps, to have the local rank of Major in .-sfrica• only. • liosriTAL .STAFF.—To be Deputy Inspectors of Hos pitals.—Brevet Inspector of Hospitals William Augustus 1 Burke, M.D. from the half-pay ; Deputy Inspector Ebenezer Brown, from the half-pay; Deputy Inspector James Strachan, M.D. from the half-pay. be Assistant•Surreons to the - Forces—Assistant-S u r geon Wm. Milne, from, lialf-pay of the Ist . Foot, vice Hospital- Assistant Brown, appointed to the 85th Foot; Assistant-Sur geon Joseph Magrath, from half-pay York •Chasseurs, vice Palmer. To be Hospital,Assistant to the Forces—John Hawkey, M.D. vice Mac Gibbon, promoted in the 21st Foot. SlEMomAxnUit—Assistant-Surgeon John Cleland, on half pay 32d Foot, requests leave to resign. Commission in the Royal Westeni Regiment of Middlesex Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex; Edward M`Grath, Esq. to be Captain. Commission in the Rutland Legion Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Rutland ; Gilbert John Heathcote, Esq. to be Major-Commandant, vice Thomas Hotchkin, resigned. THE K-ING v. J. II AYNE, ESQ. AND OTHERS.— This case is expected to come on for trial at the Devizes Quarter Sessions, whi -will commence on Tuesday. It is an indictment prefer - rat against Mr. Hayne, Whiteheaded Bob, and other individuals, for an alleged assault. It appears that while at Burderop Park, Mr. Rayne had some friends' with him, and after dinner they retired to the billiard-room.-- This was about ten o'clock. Mr. H. then sent to the steward for some more wine. The steward had retired to bed, and re fused to get up. Mr. H. desired that the keys of the cellars might be sent to him. This was also refused; upon which Mr. H., somewhat incensed, went to the steward's room to d mand an explanation. An altercation followed, in which tie ser vant forgot the respect due to the master, and, as we have been told, actually spit in Mr. H.'s face. The effect pro duced by such a disgusting assault was precisely what might • 'have been expected. The offender was well thrashed and turned out of doors. At the ensuing Sessions he was on the alert, and, with the help of some good advisers, preferred a bill of indictment against Mr. Hayne, and every person who was present at his chastisement—thereby, as he thinks, pre cluding the possibility of his stat emen t, b e ing contradicted. Mr. Layne will, in all . probability, prefer a bill against his steward at the County Sessions, and thus the two indictments will be tried together, so that some chance will exist of elicit ing the whole truth.—(Morniug Paper.) MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.----TileSe Sessions coal menced this morning before J. F. CoNsT, Esq. Chairman, and a full Bench of Magistrates. The Court was occupied with some trifling eases. We are happy to state that the Calendar is of a very _ light description. THEATRICAL COVIIINT•GIEDEN.—The announced re-engage ment of Miss FOOTE at this Ttioatre excited so much public attention that a vast crowd of per sons have besieged the box-office for several days, in order to secure places. It has been found thatNbOve..hail speculated up the getnko eager ness 'fo iviel3PSll the return &r Maii.,interesting tress, and had disposed of the places which they had taken at enormous prices. There had been much discussion, we understand, among the Ma nagers as to the character in which she should first appear. It was proposed that the part should be Juliet, but it was shrewdly observed by ono of the Managers that Juliet's lover was gait/ ful : this remark led to other proposals, and It was finally determ►ned that she should assume the part of Ophelia. - Last night was fixed on for her appearance. Every avenue of the theatre was crowded at an early hour, insomuch that that vigilant and active Magistrate, Sir IttcuAan Btaxte, ordered a posse of constables to attend, for the purpose of keeping the peace, and the prevention of robbery. The theatre was almost instantaneously filled as soon as the doors were opened. All the scenes preceding the appearance of Miss FooTa passed amidst such a bux of ex pectation, that little could be heard, and yet there was no call for " Silence." At length she came forward, handed by Luerles. The mo ment s.i►e appeared there was a universal rising from the seats, and a burst of congratulatory ac clamation from all quarters, which was several times repeated. The effect was strongly impres sive on Miss FooTe, who seemed rea►ly to sink under the agitation of grateful emotio►►s. When Luertes delivered the following speech, ho was interrupted by a renewal of applause : IFor Hamlet and the trijling of hisfavour " Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood ; " A violet in the youth of primp nature, " Forward, not permanent, sweat, not tastiv, " The perfume and euppliance of a minute, " No more." Ophelia althwere•--. 44 - No more but :o!"—which is a question in the text ; but Miss FOOTS con verted it into an interjection, as having expe rienced the melancholy fact. Similar emotions arose on the part of the audience when ',aeries proceeded to say-- '• Than weigh what loss your honour may sustain, " If with too credent ear you list his songs." When Polonias afterwards asked Ophelia what Laertes had said to her, and she answered— " He 'lath, my Lord, of late made many tenders " Of his affection to me. _ Polonius. Do you believe these tenders, as you call them! " Ophslia. I do not know, my Lord, what I should think. " Polonius. Marry I'd teach you : think yourself a Baby ; " That you have ta'en these tenders for hue pay, Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly." It was observed that BLANCHARD, during this dialogue, delivered his words with a peculiar emphasis, looking round, as if to discover whether any person seemed to be affected by them.— .ophelia answers— "ly Lord, he hatkirnportun'd me with love, " In honourable fashion." Polonitv. replies—. " Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. " Do not believe his vows : for they are brokers, " Not of that die which their Investments *hew, " But mere implorators of unholy suits, " Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, " The better to beguido. This is for aIL Opitelia— " And hath given countenance to hie speech with all the holy vows of Heaven." Polonius answers— " Ay, :pings to catch woodcocks." Here again the audience could not contronl their feelings, but burst into clamours of applause. In a following scene Polonius says— " What, have you given him any hard words of late ?" Ophelia— No—l did repel his ktters l and dented his access to me." The audience caught hold of the passage, and renewed their shouts. The scene between Ophelia and Hamlet excited particular attention, and it was observed that Mr. C. KEMBLE treated her with a kind of tender sympathy, rather than with the rough levity which the Poet intended. When he said— " I did love you once, And she answered— " Indeed, my Lord, you made me believe so, The female part of the audience seemed to ho particularly affected, and more so when he added ‘..• I loved you not," And she said, with a sigh, • " I Was the more deceived." When left by Hamlet, Ophrlia says— " I, of Ladies most deject and wretched, "'That suck'd the honey of his music vows." And afterwards— 0, woe is me " To have seen what I have seen, see what I see 1" Female sympathy was again strikingly apparent. Nothing particular occurred afterwards, 'till the scene in which Ophelia appears in a state of in. sanity, in which Miss FooTE's acting was deeply affecting, especially in a part of one of her songs, in which she says— " Then up he rose, and donn'd his cloaths, " And oupp'd 'the chamber door, " Let in the maid, that out a maid " Never departed more." Her feelings seemed to be so strongly agitated at this passage that she had hardly strength to go through the scene. Again, in the passage— " Quoth she before you humbled me, and, " You proniis'd me to wed," his answer, continued— `stsPt'sh'owould I ha' done, by yonder sun, " And thou hadst not come to my bed." Here again the Ladies testified a tender interest. here was nothing in the last scene in which Ophclia appeared that calls for particular notice, hut it seemed to be generally observed that Miss FooTE rendered it more interesting and pathetic titan was remembered on any former occasion. Upon the whole the Public never witnessed a more affecting representation, and the reception which Miss FooTE experienced, during the whole of her performance, was highly honourable to the feelings of the audience, and to the British cha racter in general. C2IRISTCHUItcIi.—Oit Saturday (New Year's Day) the Earl of MALMESIIIIRY, accompanied by his son, Viscount Fitzharris, and attended by three domestic servants, and two horses, attempted to cross in a large boat, constructed for the purpose, a wide part of the river Stour, near his Lord ship's mansion, at Heron Court, when, either from some mis management, or from a sudden motion of the horses, the boat upset, and precipitated the whole into the river, the waters of which, from the late incessant rain, were very deep and im petuous. By dint of great exertions no life was lost, and their Lordships have since felt no inconvenience from the accident. — ( Hampshire Chronicle.) snucr 0 P rrocKs r Mast Stock .229 j 230 3 per Cent. Red. s4jii per Cent. C'ons. 93ii 34 per Cent lili Dittoited ._ .. . Dissd 4 P'=g" Col' New —.---- Rant Long nn .2 2i 23 Imp, 3 per gents. s. India Stock a. 4 , Dittvilionds South *tla Stock 101 s.. 99u shut PRICFS OF FOREIGN Ft Atastrinn Bds, 5 per et 413 h 1 Brzailian Scrip 13i4 pr. Buenos A yres•Rds 9lii (Milian, lids, I; per ct.B7i titi Ittl.,bperct.9.4 Do. do. 1824 944 Danish, ti percent. lO3 Greek lids 5B Mexican Ms 78 9 843 Nevolitan, 5 per &rip ...... tY AT ONE O . G LOCK Old Annuities New Ditto *hut Ex.. Bills 10001. 2d. Ditto SB ei..5 Pitt° 5901.' . 2(1.—.... 02 56 likto lAti. Ditto Small ... .... , Ditto ft; 60 . . Ditto Advertised 7-- Bank for Act. , India for Acct. Cone. for Account 9,5 :IDS, AT ONE O'CLOCK:. Peruvian 83 Portuguese Bonds 88i Ser,p Prtts*in.n .5 per ct. Ditto New Russian, New, *ler ct. 95& Spanish 1821, ct. 1823, ditto French Ren ter Uni _ _ • Exchango 35f. 10c: Scrip .... PItICES OP 111-lALIES:AT ONE O'CLOGK. Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Company 1D Ditto, Marine Department „ 7 Ang,lo-Mexican Mining Company llO 160 120 150 134' .4.rigna Iron and Coal Mining Company ... 91 12 10 18 pm. Brazilian Mining Company Colombian Mining Company G 80 75 85 60 J . .% ... __. . Hibernian Minin;ticompany Real del Monte Mining Company Rio (le la Plata Mining Company 63 75 70 85 60 6atiii United Mexican Alining Company - 130:1 5 Continental (fax Company _ Provincial Portable Goa Company London and Birmingham Railway Company pm. Manchewer and Liverpool Railway Company 4 pm. Canada Company General Stenin S'avigation Company li4l, prn. Pearl Fishery Company VOREIGN Gottenburgh Hamburgh Holland - France Flanders . America . A RR I V E D. DV r. PLOT! WATER AT LONVON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 37 minutes after 6.1 Evening, 5 minutes after 7., THE SUN. soulu out.; DreEnn PALS tr .11 .iuDzier LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 10, 1825. We have received this morning, by Express, the Etoile dated Sunday, which does not con tain any article of the least political interest. Peers, Jew. B.—Five per Cents. opened at 103 f. and cloud at 102 f. 95c. For the end of the month they were done, after the market closed, at 103 f. 15c. We have received the Paris Papers of Friday' and the Etoile dated Saturday. It appears from their contents, and from private letters which ac companied them, that every person's attention is engaged by the project of law for indemnifying the Emigrants, but although the measure will be carried in the Chamber of Deputies, where the Minister is all powerful, yet it is very doubtful whether it will pass through the Upper Chamber in which the Ministry is sure to encounter a stron; opposition, not against the principle of the indem nity, but against the means proposed for raising the sum sufficient to pay the emigrants, and the other details of the measure which are calculated to place the emigrants at the mercy of the Minis.. try, whom it proposes to invest with the power of deciding on their claims and apportioning the indemnity to each claimant. The emigrants are far from satisfied with the project of law ; and even of this class there are soma who consider it impolitic and contrary to the interests of the nation. M. DE CIIATEAUBItIANI) has already begun the contest against the Ministerial Finery cial measures in the Journal des Debats, by at' lacking the project for the voluntary conversion of five per Cent. Stock into Stock at three, or foot and a half per cent., which he designates as an lasi' dious attempt to effect by artifice the reductio o of the Rentes which had been undertaken last year in vain by force. e extract from the Etoile an additional ar tick of the treaty for the military occupatio o of Spain published in our Paper of Saturday , By it the fortress of Corunna, Santona, Sarragosgs , Cardona, and Hostalrich, are to be garrisoned will' French troops, and a brigade of cavalry an( l artillery are to be stationed at different p o intl between Vittoria and the French frontier. Tile French army in Spain will thus be increased t' bet wu• n thirty and forty thousand men ; bo t Spain is only required to pay for the mointemt.nc e of twenty-two thousand. (From the Etoile, dated Saturday, Jan. 0.) MADRID, I Ec. 29.—The Madrid Gazette publiy.bok `P t following supplementary article to the Convention for the 1 0 ' longation of the stay of the French troops in Spain : " ADDITIONAL ARTICLE : " iiis Most Christian Majesty, according to the wishas ° A his august Ally, the King our Sovereign, and always dispos-, to do every thing that may contribute to ensure the tranquillity of Spain, has ordered that, independently of the 22,000 1111 mentioned in the first article of the present conv e ntion, and the Swiss Brigade mentioned in the third article, there shall 0 other French troops, to form the garrisons of Corunna, tona, Saragossa, Cardona, and llostairich, placing also a 10 ' grade, with some squadrons and some corps of artirezry en eche low; between Vittoria and Irun. " This considerable addition to the French troops in Sps. i i l will form an army of from 30,000 to 50,000 men. Franse require no greater indemnity than that which it may clailn the 22,000 men only." The Moniteur of Friday, the 7th, contain: nothing offic , ' . ., Under the head of the Chamber of Peers, this paper gives, very great length, the exposition of the ground for the proje c t of law on sacrilege, presented to the Chamber in the sitting ti f the 4th of January, by the Keeper of the Seals, Minister ° Justice. The titre premier is as follows : " OF SACRILEGE. " ♦ Art. 1. The piofanation of the sacred utensils and of the ' consecrated wafers (hustles) is the crime of sacrilege. " 2. Every overt act committed voluntarily and .throug h hatred or contempt of religion, on th e sacre d u t ens il s or t" consecrated wafers, is declared a profanation. " 3. There is legal proof of the consecration of the wafeft when they are placed in the tribunals or exposed in the eitel/ 3C