The Sun. — London, England, 1821-10-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS, October 18. [MORNING CHRONICLE.I The Greeks cannot fail to gain friends, no►s that they are giving proofs of their power to the world. They used to rely formerly ou - the Go vernments of Europe; but disappointment seems to have taught them the value of Lord Byron's advice: Trust not for 6eesloin to the Frank ; and they seem to trust chiefly now to their own exertions. They have already surmounted the chief difficulty in all insurrections, that of escap ing being crushed in the outset, anti having stood their ground so long, there is now little proba bility of their being put, down. Their main re liance is in themselves; but the aid they will de rive from Europe, in arms, money, and expe rienced officers, will be of signal advantage to them. The Subscriptions to indemnify Sir Robert Wilson amount, already to upwards of 40001. In the additional List published by us this day are the names of the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Thanet, Lord King, Lord Robert Spencer, Messrs. Abraham Roberts, M. P., T. W. Coke, M.P., Daniel Sykes, M.P., Marmaduke M.P., &c. In a very short time the sum calculated on will be raised. This is a very different result no doubt from that on which Mi nisters calculated, and itwill go far towards coun teracting the despotic system embraced by them re specting the army. The army belongs, it is true, to the King; but the army of a free country ought not to be subjected to arbitrary treatment. Whenever such a system is resorted to, the people ought on their part to meet it with the proper corrective. It is their interest that British Officers should remain strangers to that submission which is in compatible with the feelings of a Gentleman and the principles of a good Citizen • and they are therefore bound t o i n d emn ify a ll who, like Sir Robert Wilson, are made to suffer for their refusal to relinquish their honour and their prin ciples. Had there been no subscription on this occasion, the less wealthy Officers of the Army must at once have inferred that they could only, escape ruin by an unqualified obedience at all times to every whim and caprice of the Court. But this subscription will teach them, that the public will not suffer them to he made the victims of any such whim or caprice_; and will resist every attempt to punish them, except for acknowledged military offences, and after a regular investigation.:—The vote of an Officer in Parliament would be as much at the command of Government as that of the Secretary of the Trea sury, if the principle of dismissal without cause shewn were to be adopted. The pretence to in dependence, if made, would only excite a laugh. —(lbid.) [MORNING HERALb.] The accounts from Vienna are of the Sd inst. It would appear from them, that the Emperor Alexander has absolutely conjured the Empero* of Austria, '‘ by their mutual friendship," to observe a strict neutrality, with an intimation that his interference did hut retard and embar rass the negociations between him and the Porte. The last Russian note to the Allies is said to have excited a strong sensation, but no intimation is given of its precise contents. The general impression is, that he still holds by a steady grasp to his main design. The Austrian Jour - mats declare that the next mail would bring the ultimate issue. This assertion, however, has been so often made, and so often falsified in the event, that it is not to be confided in. It is somewhat curious that the Vienna Papers no longer allude to his Majesty's intentions of visiting that ca pital. His arrival there was certainly expected, when he set out for the Continent, and prepa rations were even commenced for his reception. Now, however, not a word is said upon the matter. It would be rather a singularity that the King should visit Germany without, hav ing a personal interview with the Emperor of Austria. Berlin, it is said, he will visit. The accounts from the Mediterranean and Archipe lago continue to represent the Greeks as uncon querable by sea, but as carrying on an uncertain and afflicting warfare on land. The population of Livadia and the Morea suffer dreadfully from both parties, being alternately pillaged by the Greeks and Turks ; the former are in pos session of the open country, whilst the latter come out of their strong holds whe❑ they have an opportunity for plunder. The younger Ypsi lanti is still unacknowledged, and quarrelling with the Greek Authorities constituted before his arrival. They refuse to recognize him, doubt, because lie is furnished with no authority from the Emperor Alexander. He is said to be inexperienced, and incompetent to command men ou a great occasion. His brother shewed, it is considered, more personal courage than capacity. Spain is still desolated with the yellow fever in Catalonia; but there are:.no further accounts of its progress on the coast of Andalusia. We have no account of any sitting of the Cortes; they are chiefly employed in' matters of course, and in pre ' paring for the consideration of public business. [MORNING POST.] it appears by an article from New York, an nouncing the arrival of Monsieur Roux de La-'' boisse with dispatches, thata treaty of commerce' , has for some time been seriously negociating be tween France and the United States. The dis patches were supposed to contain that 46 long-de sired treaty," and in the joyful anticipation of the event, the mystery in which it had been prepared was forgotten, and the secret was given to the world. Whether the arrangements have really proceeded so near completion as to justify the daily expectation of• the arrival of the Treaty itself, we have no means of judging but the simple ftr...'t that such a matter is in agi tation is of no mean importance. Au union of commercial interests between America and France must necessarily affect, to a ccrtain extent, the trade of every other country ; and though it is perfectly lawful and praiseworthy in those Governments. to procure every possible kind of advantage for ti►eir respective subjects; yet it is equally the duty of other States to keep an eye on their proceedings, and to inquire into the propriety, usefulness, and practicability of forming . arrange►newts of a shnilar nature: Some of these Papers confirm the report of Lord Coch rane having left Callao .for an unknown destina tion, and of Sir Thomas llardy's having come to a determination not to respect any longer the blockade of the Peruvian Coast. On the other hand, rumours had reached Baltimore, and were deemed " more than probable " at that place; that Lima had at last fallen into the power of the Chitians, the siege having been resumed with increased energy both by St. Martin and Lord Cochrane after a temporary retreat on their part. We are - happy to find that the yellow fever had diminished in violence at Boston, Bal timore, and at most other places on the American coast. New York had been declared free from contagion as well as New Orleans, where the disorder had previously committed great ravages. The only place in the United States where the fever still raged to any alarming extent was Nor folk, in which city the new cases continued to be very numerous. The deaths at Boston and Baltimore had greatly decreased in number since our last arrivals from thence. But an accident had nearly renewed the danger. During. the dreadful gale which had been experienced all along the coast, several vessels stationed at the quarantine ground at Staten Island had been driven on shore and the crews obliged to land for safety; several persons had thence caught the infection, and died. The Board of health, how ever, had taken effectual precautions to preven its spreading. [BRITISH PRESS.] Among the recent regulations in- the army, the Gazette lately announced an extensive promotion of the English Commissariat officers. In this arrangement seven Assistant Commissary-Gene rals were promoted to the rank of Deputy Com missary-Generals, the date of whose commissions run from September, 1806, down to August, 1811. Now there are in Ireland seven Assistant-Com. missary-Generals, the dates of whose commissions run from the Ist of January, 1798, down to No vember, 1803, some of whom consequently are near twenty-four years Assistant-Commissary- Generals, while several of the English Officers of that class, promoted to the superior rank of De puty Commissary-Generals, are not of more than ten years standing. In addition to the claim de rived from length of service, may be added the undoubted merits of the Irish Assistant-Commis sary-Generals, it being well known and univer sally admitted that the business of their depart ment is conducted with the most exemplary cor rectness. We mention this case thus circumstantial ly, because we are persuaded that the distinction which has been made between these two sets of meritorious officers must he the result of inad vertence. The character of the Commander-in- Chief will not allow us to presume that the situa tion of the Irish Assistant Commissary-Generals could have been present to the mind of his Royal Highness when -the late promotion was settled. Ire - therefore hope that it iglu the contempla tion of his Royal Highness to do equal justice to the officek of that branch of the niilitary service. The King has shewn that the interests of Ire land are equally deiar to him as those of any other part of his kingdom, and the same spirit may be expected to actuate all those who exer cise his power and authority. [NEW Timts.] There is one feature of late improvement in the Revenue which appears not to have excited much notice, and yet it is one of no minor im portance. Our Readers will remember that we felt it necessary, when, in -1819, the question of Cash Payments came under the consideration of Parliament, to treat it with much doubt and hesi tation, and; indeed, with no small anxiety and foreboding. We knew that our feelings on the subject were those of the most experienced mer chants and bankers in the city of London, and our fears deried strength from that knowledge. Indeed, it was hardly to be doubted that a bad har vest, or any other occurrence which might turn the scale of the Exchang es, would render the plan then determined on a ltogether impiacticable.— Providence, however, has carried us safely over this dangerous period. The Bank, with a most honourable promptitude, has anticipated by the whole term of two years The stipulated return to Cash Payments, Acid this great measure may be considered as accomplished.--But the Bank, with a perfect knowledge of the subject, remind ed the Legislature in 1819, that " the real ques tion was, not whether it were possible for them to resume Cash Payments, but whether the country was able to bear the reduction .of the circulating medium which must precede and ac company such resumption." [TH E.TIM ES.] One or two of. the Irish counties are in a de plorable state. We have already published a detail of some of the outrages -which have been perpetrated in the county of Limerick and to wards the borders of Kerry. The plan of ag gression by the rioters seems to have been to make a series of attempts on the insulated coun try houses of gentlemen and farmers who were supposed to have fire-arms in their possession, that, ,by getting hold of the arms, they might furnish themselves with the means of fresh plunder, and of putting down all resistance except by a regular force, On one occa sion it appears that these disturbers of the peace, composed of two hostile bodies, took the field in broad day, before the Gentry of the district assembled at Newcastle ,races, and openly fired on each other—dispersing only after an attack made upon both by a detachment of dragoons under Colonel Douglas. When we say that a course of undisguised ferocity, so little characteristic of a civilized age, is nothing new to an observer of Irish history and habits, we pass unquestionably the keenest censure on the policy by which it has been produced. While the whole European world has advanced in the arts of peace and in the enjoyments of cultivated society, it is a truth as melancholy as it is disgraceful, that the great bulk of indigenous population through the south and central parts of Ireland has stood for centuries unchanged and motionless. Ulster was judiciously colonized from this country ; manufactures have there been successfully introduced ; and from being in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth the most savage and desolate"portion of the island, that province has since become the seat—the al most exclu'sive seat—of industry, sobriety, and comfort, amongst the labouring classes. WESTMINSTER S'ESSIONS.— Yesterday these Sessions commenced at the Guildhall, West minster, before FRA:NC/S CONST, Esq. and a Bench of Magistrates. After the Grand Jury for the County of Middlesex were sworn in, Mr. STERLING, the Clerk of the Court, read the Riot Act, and then made proclamation. The CnAin mAs informed the Grand Jury their attendance would be required at the Sessions House, Clerk enwell-green, on Monday. There are, he said, only twenty at present sworn in, the rest of the Gentlemen who were summoned not having at tended. It would be necessary, in order to faci litate the business of the County, which some times goes on very well with twenty, that they should attend early, to enable them to get a throtigh the business with such dispatch as not to cause unnecessary delay. The Court would endeavour to procure more 'Jurors if necessary, and those who neglected to attend would be fined each in the penalty of 101.—The Grand Jury then retired. Several Constables were then sworn in, and the Court adjourned to- this day. DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO (NEW YORK, SEPT.I4.) —On Sunday afternoon last, about six o'clock, a most destructive tornado was experienced in Northfield, Warwick, and Orange, in the county of Franklin (Mass.) It first struck and derno , lished a house and barn in Northfield, and thence passed to the easterly part of that town, and de stroyed the house of C. Holton, seriously in juring him. From Northfield it passed into Warwick, completely demolishing, in its course, the house of a Mr. Brown, a daughter of whom, about fourteen years of age, perished in its ruins ; and the barn and outbuildings of a Mr. Ball. At a little distance east of Mr. Ball's, in Orange, a house, two barns, and a blacksmith's shop, all belonging to Mr. Smith, fell prostrate before the blast. The family, consisting of 11 individuals, escaped death by retreating, to the cellar—all, save one, a young woman by the name of Stearns, who was crushed to death by the falling timber. Several others were, how ever, so seriously injured that their lives are de spaired of. So resistless was the force of the tornado that the stoniest trees , were uprooted, stone fences removed, immense rocks torn from their beds, and even the surface of the earth it- self broken up, as if with the plough-share of destruction. MIRACULOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Captain How- LAND, of the sloop Rising Sun, arrived at Pro vidence on Sunday last. On the sth instant, lat. 37. 47. long. 74. 33. fell in with a schooner bot tom up, her masts and spars were alongside, held by the rigging ; her sails were blown or washed from the bolt-rope. „We went on her bottom, to cut a hole through, to see what she was loaded with. We cut a. piece of plank out near the run, and were surprised to hear a voice, like-that of a female, ask, " 6 Who is that ?" but very faintly. We answered, " friends ;" and asking how many there were below, she said, when the vessel cap sized she turned, instantly bottom up, and all bands were on deck except herself and the Cap tain's nephew (Lewis Miers, of Charlston, S. C.), a boy about eleven years of age. We drew her out; she was a woman of colour, about twenty two years of age, wet,,and her flesh all parboiled. She said the boy was drowned in the cabin. She caught hold of the run scuttle-ring, and pulled the scuttle off, and went up to the run, where we found her, with the water constantly washing over her. She said probably some of the crew might be in the forecastle. We went forward on the keel and cut through into the forecastle, and found nothing but a small dog alive, jammed between the timbers, and the forecastle full of lumber; the rest, seven in number, are supposed to have perished. She says the schooner's name was Blake, of Charleston, South Carolina, Capt. James Hatch : that she sailed from Boston on the 9th ultimo, for Portland, where she arrived, and loaded• with lumber ; had 14 pipes of wine on deck, and a high deck load of lumber ; that they , - sailed from Portland about the 17th for Charles ton ; that she heard the Captain say that they were off the Capes of Delaware the morning the vessel capsized ; that on the 3d instant, about ten A. M. the gale commenced ; that they took all sale in, and, hove too, cut their deck load adrift, and let all go overboard ; that about eleven A. M. she capsized.. She states that her name is Ann Maroy Irolden ; that she belongs to Warwick, R. I.; that she was going with Captain Hatch in the capacity of servant, to wait upon his nephew, who was in a bad state of health. We took her, and the dog, on board, gave her clothes and nourishment ; she is now very well.—(Philad6iitur National Gazette of Sept. 13.) HIGH-BRED Fewra.—At Bently Farm, in the parish of Framfield, a hen recently made her nest upon the ridge of a lofty barn, wherein she deposited her eggs, and in despite of the wind and rain which must have assailed her, there per formed and completed the work of incubation, as appeared soon afterwards, by her brining her callow brood, to the number of twelve, in safety to the ground.. There is a person living, we understand, in London, named ALEXANDER GORDON, whose case is rather curious. lie has lately attained his hundredth year, and is in a state of second childhood, under the constant care of a medical man. 11e made his will, we hear, some time back, in which he has bequeathed to MATILDA AD Imi;,llis great neice, his whole property, which must he enormous,' being the produce of 6,0001. a.year left accumulating at compound interest for eighty years. POLICE INtELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. MELANCHOLYCNSE.—Just at the close of ti; a business at this Justice-rooM, before - Alderman SCHOLEY, yesterday, a map of very respectable appearance, . and a boy about 13 years of age, his" son, were brought lain by Lanham, one of the street keepers of the Ward of Castle'-flaynard, who had apprehended them that morning under the following circumstances, which were detail - aim evidence by Mr. James Hedges, boot and shoe maker, No. 92, Dorsetstreet, Salisbury-square,. and a lad of the name of James Howard; his errand-boy. About half-past twelve o'clock yesterday morning, the young est prisoner (the son) came to Mr. Hedges's shop, and brought a note to the folloWing effect • • • " Mr. Hedges, step directly, to the Chapter Coffee-house, Pa ternoster-row, to Measure a gentleman for boots. You are re commended." Mr. Hedges inquired if the gentleman was waiting, and being told by the boy that he was, desired him to go back ,and say he would be there immediately. - - Mr. Hedges accordingly set off to the ceffeehouse, but scarcely had he gone above 5 or. I(/' mi nutes When the elder prisoner (the father) came running the shop, apparently in great haste, said he had been sent e by Mr. Hedges from the Chapter coffeehouse, for two pair ofbiiots for the gentleman to try On, and described the pairs hO r iante4 to be the pair hanging at the door, - and the - pair had the paper over the top& Howard, the shopboy, being told by 'Mr. Hedges's little girl that his master was gone to,the coffeehouse to measure a gentlem an , l e t th e prisoner have boots ; but havT ing.some suspicion that he might not hoedone right, as the man was quite a stranger, ran out to fAlOw him to the coffee house. In his way thither he met)* master, who, having learned that no such note had been stint to him from the Chap ter coffeehouse, was hastening hou,,ie with strong.suspicions iu his mind th a t some such trick(s::robbery was intended him.— " I have given . the man the twelSair of boots you sent for, Sir," said the lad, give_ breathless.' " I sent no man," replied the master, with equal haste.. .'short explanation took place, and they parted instantly; each taking separate ways in the hope of overtaking the thief. Howard very fortunately, got sight of the prisoners in Earl-street, Blackfriars, raised the cry of stop thief; pursued them into Bennet's-hill, where ( - ' , anham, who was at his own door, stopped them, and took them both into custody, the father -having the two pair of boots in a hand bag, on his shoulder. • Canham produced the property, two pair of new jockey boots, worth 44 shillings a pair. The elder pnsoner, who said the boy with him was his son, acknowledged the whole guilt of the transaction, and begged that his child might not be detained, as he himself alone was in fault. He was by trade a bookbinder, but employmentbeing scarce, he had latterly b een doing a little trade as a milkman ; he had an ailing wife And six children, - of whom the boy with him was the eldest but - one, and earnestly entreated mercy for the sake of his - fami/y, alleging that this was his first and only offence. Mr. Hedges hunianely joined in this request, expressing his willingness to forego prosecuting, if the Magistrate should think proper io overlook the offence; Mr. Alderman Scuot.tY observed, that the interest of the public demanded that a case of this nature should not be passed over with impunity, without th e s t ronges t p oss ibl e circum stances appearing on 'the prisoner's, behalf. He had scarcely ever witnessed so shocking a case as this—of a man, the father of a family, training up his child in the very, high road to the gallows. The crime itself was of a nature so heinous, and on the other hand the consequences 0 dreadful to the man's fa mily, if his story was true, that ,he (the Alderman) would not decide immediately what it might be proper'for him to do in the case. He therefore directed both the prisoners father and son, to be brought up again on Saturday ; Mr. Hedges undertaking in the interim to make full inquiry into the character,.circum stances, and situation of the family. The elder prisoner (the father) gave his name and address, both of which we suppress for the present, until it shall be as- i certained whether or not he is at all deserving of the mercy lie implores. THAMES POLICE. DEFRAUDING TIIE REVSN u}:.--Two `ca. were investi gated yesterday at this office, of a curious nature; inasmuch as they were des ig n ate d b y the S o li c i tor o f the Customs as the result of a conspiracy to defraud 'the Revenue. ' The first was that of a lighterman, named W' ilkinsou, who was brought up on a charge that he, having been employed to 'convey three casks of Guine a ;.,/rain from the London Docks, on board of a vessel called the Georgellensina, to be shipped for Amster dam, had contrived to empty the contents of the Casks, and sub stitute dirt arid cinders. The second was a similar charge against a mariner, named Joseph Marsden, who was accused of having practised a like fraud with regard to a quantity of nux vomica, amounting to 6,6961 b. The duty on nux voinica is 2s. fid. the pound ; the original cost is only one penny. The charge in, both instances was made by the master lighterman to whom the trust of conveying the goods from the London-docks on board of the respective vessels had been given. A question thence arose, an d • was in part discussed, whether the lighter man under such t rus t could represent the actual owner of •the property t and in that .charaeter prosecute the prismserikko s Tiley were advised by the Magistrate not to enter upon the considera tion oflegal points without legal ' assis t ance , an d th e p r i soners were both remanded. _ M ARYLE goNT, -orFicE. • To ST ACE-COACH PROPRIETORS.—Yesterday an inform ation came on to be heard at this office before Mr. Gait's' yr ns, the sitting Magistrate, against,Mr. Wm. Tollett, proprietor of one of the Uxbridge Coaches, for carrying more passengers than is allowed by Act of Parliament, and for placing a portmanteau on the coachman's footboard, contrary to the statute. • The informer, Biers, stated that on the 28th o f S e pt e mb er , he saw the coach in question passing - through Oxford-street, with seven outside passengers (the act only allowing five.) There was also a portmanteau ahnut a yard long, and eighteen inches in circumference, on the foot-board of the coachman, standing upright. This also is contrary to the act. The defendant, Mr. Tollett, observed, that it was a very hard case with respect to the portmanteau, which might have been placed there by the passenger to whom it belonged ; and if th e coachman was alw a y s t o refuse carrying trifling and light hug_ gage on the outside, at times they would have no p asse n gers a t all. Besides, in the present instance, the' portmanteau might have been placed in the boot, but through its length projected from it. (This the informer denied, and said it was entirely out.) The defendant resumed, and observed that the act was in tended to prevent carrying luggage on the roof so as to prevent danger ; and there was a gentleman present, who Would aver that no danger was apprehended or possible. The gentleman, a passenger on the coach, corroborated this statement. Mr. Gitirrrrus said it certainly was a hard case with re spect to the portmanteau, but the act was imperative, and only allowed the Magistrate to mitigate the penalty from WI. to The defendant was accordingly convicted in that sum on each information. Two draymen, in the employ of illesc:!s. Calvert, brewers, were each fined lOs. for • riding on the fore-horses of the drays through AlarylebOne. _ BOW-STREET. FORGED CHEClCS.—Yesterday•Henry Thompson, charged with uttering forged checks on the house of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., Lothbury, bankers, was brought •up for re examination before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE. This case has cited considerable interest, and during the examination the office was excessively crowded ; no - less than five Magistrate* Jresided on the bench. The depositi on 01' the cashier fo Messrs. ones and Lloyd was taken ; and he deposed to the fact of there being no account kept by his -employers with a per Sen of the name of Henry C. Lloyd, by whom the checks uttered to Messrs. Pontex, Hook ; and Thomas, a detail of the cireuni stances attendant on which was inserted on the former examin ation, purported to be drawn. Prisoner declined saying any thing in ins. defence : he .nrpeared ia-s. very despondi44gstate,o, He was fully committed. - ' • UNION-HALL. Yesterday Christopher Watton, a young man -about. 21 years of age, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, C. (L%ll.Alq iitits, Esq., and -- KING, Esq., charged on suspicion of having stolen a trunk from the back of a Gentleman's carriage. One of the horse } patrol who scour the Kent-road stated, th a t :it - about seven o'clock in the evening, as he was going along that road, near the. Lord Nelson public-house, he observed the prisoner lying in the ditch on the left hand side. Upon going over he saw that it w a s s om e thi ng more th an acc id ent t h at h ad brought the person-to that situation, and that if lie had fallen, a large.trunk must: have fallen with him. He immediately took the prisoner into custody, and found that the straps of the trunk had been cut. The trunk was, however, in . every other respect uninjured, and . the property of • the owner perfectly secure. - Several persOns who had been robbed of trunks - tittended the office amongst them was Harry Leech, the celebrated Dwarf, whose friends cry him up at the fairs round the metropolis, as " the most wonderful of all God's creatures." This extraor dinary little being, having succeeded, after some effbrts, in making himself visible to The Magistrate, stated, that. he had sustained a heavy loss of the same kind. He had lost on Wed nesday last in the evening, at 6 o'clock, a trunk from-the back of his chaise,' to which it had been secured with straps. In the trunk, besides clothes and other thincrs of value, , was the sum of 141. Air. Brown, one of the clowns of Ast/ey's Theatre4, also ap peared to ascertain whether he had - any claim to the trunk Cr not, having lost a trunk through the tictinty of some of the dra , rsmen with whom that road abounds. 'l he trunk, which iS covered with an oil cloth, has not, how ever, been recognized. It lies at the.office.—The prisoner was remanded. LOVE AND. MADNESS: A Correspondent, who favours-us witir - hfs'name and address, has conveyed to us-the following Melancholy and extraordinary'narrative -, daughter of a respectable professional Gentleman of B-, near Grantham, had for a considerable time, with the approbation'of her lathily, received the addresses of the Rev. Mr. -, Clergyman of the same village. This Gentleman left his house on Friday . evening last on horseback, but shortly after called on Miss who accompanied him, as, was sup posed by her family, for an evening walk. Her not,returning home at the usual time, oolyexcit ed..an ordinary degree of, surprise ;. her absence ivas accounted for by supposing, from their ex treme intimacy, that" they had gone off to Gretna green, as their intended union had not met the entire approbation ,of the Gentleman's friends. The Gentleman's horse having been found turned up in a neighbour's close naturally strengthened the above-supposition. Inquiry was then made at .all the neighbouring inns where it was likely to obtain post horses, but no intimation could be obtained. The mystery was not of long 9n tinuance, for at five o'clock on Sunday morning the father of the young lady was called front. his bed, and to his soul-sickenin; surprise was told that his daughter would be - found dead in the neighbouring plantation of Mr!: A candle and a lanthorn was imme diately procured, when the information was found to be too trne: the lady lay as if asleep, with her head upon her arm, which was bloody, wrapped in Mr. -'s surtout and handkerchief- It appears they had both taken a, large *quantity of laudanum. The laudanum swallowed by the unhappy lady had taken effect, but , the . stoinach of the gentleman had rejected it while he lay In a state of insensibility by her side, on recovery from which it is said he made an ineffectual at.- tempt to cut his throat, which accounts for the lady's arm being. found bloody. le is now 0 his own house. The affair will undtrgo the sera' tiny_ of the Coroner's inquest, which will be at' tended by two physicians and two surgeons, when this melancholy and distressing affair will meet -further elucidation. As the young ladY was in the habit o f compounding her father's medicines, - her access to laudanum is easily ac counted for. The Reverend Gentleman, wilt' was . only Curate of 8., wis,. it seems, originally brought up to the law ) which, from conscientious motives, he left for the Church. His character is exemplary. The age of Miss - was 5:5' When she as removed to her father's house sby was not quite cold, appeared asleep, and a. 4 blooming as vrhen alive, but in a short time her colour tied, and she ,assumed the app ea rance 0 ' death. By this dreadful affair, the deceased'' family, which is large, is involved in great sor row and distress."—(Evening paper.) Hortaxn MURDER.—It is with painful feel ing we have to state another act of atrocity, which has been committed in this country. On Monday last, in. the parish of Crathie,"Brakmar, a young woman residing - with her mother, a widow, who had been T long bed-rid, was found barbarously murdered, 'in the house, her throat being cut in the most shocking manner. From thefieported intimacrbetween• the parties, anci other . circumstances which, in the paeseitt stage ,o-f-the business; it would be improper to cuter upon, suspicion fell' upon a young man of the name of Robert Mackintosh; who, . after under going an examination before some of the Justices of that neighbourhood, was brought to town and lodged in gaol here, on Wednesday. The Sheriff Substitute of Aberdeen, and Fiscal of the county, have, in the mean time, we learn,• gone to the scene of this sad - catastrophe, to pursue the legal investigation, so as to lead to the discovery of the guilty perpetrator.—(Aberdeen Chronicle.) CIIILD MURDER,.---About eleven o'clock. ou Tuesday night as a Gentleman, residing in Euston-street, spa fields, was in the act of.scraping his feet at his own door, he ob served a white bundle lying on the step ; he kicked it to see what it was, when on opening it he found to his surprise and astonishment, that it contained the body. of a male infant appa rently a few days old. The watchman was called, and the child was conveyed to the watch-house, .when several mark 3 were found on the body, which lies for a Coroner's Invest. On Friday evening last, as Mr. CL tali, school master, of Stroud, was going from thence. to Mil ton, he was stopped on the road hetsreen New: ington and Key -street by two foot=pads, one 0 1 whom struck him on the head, while the oth er fastened on the sleeve of his coat. They the n seized a handle, containing a shirt, cravat, hand kerchief, &c. ; when Mr. C. having considerabl e- ; property about him, matte a sudden effort, an" - , forced himself from th e gras p o f th e villain, atm leaving the cuff of his coat and bundle behind, got off, but with considerable bruises on his arms, shoulders, &c. His hat, from the effect of t he blow, was completely split open. BIRTHS. • On Monday last, at his house, St. Saviour'i Southwark, the Lady of the Rev. Jonathan Wilkinson, of St, Jollns College, Cambridge, of a daughter. • • I At Edinburgh, on th e l) t h i nstant , t h e L a dy o f Rear-A4121 4 r Otway,,Oinwo.ander,-in,Chiefof4,4ughter. - • , 7 •.,f, G of Yesterday morning, in Upper ro%yenor.st *: reet, the J.`" -; Dr. Fitton, of a son. On Thumiky, the 11th inst. the Lady of J ames R. I;3Tr> 'Esq. of Don4unore, of a son. J MARRIED. - rrj►oraa s - On Monday last, at Steeple-Aston, in O x f or d s hire, -• l i d e st Brooksbank, of , Orav's;lnn-square, Esc., to Man') " dauf;hter.of William Faithorn, Esq. of Middle.. .ton. othr esterday, the 17th in s t., at Lewisham Chtireh, in the ect r i c , of Kent, John Hurles, E s q., o f Canterbury-square, Sooily/- to Miss Mary Ann Stapelton, of :Maize-hill,. Greenwich. ight, At her father's house, near Belfast, on Saturday se rin .,-, 0 01 Edward Ilegarty, Esq. to Miss Acheson. After the eer.F.:4, to was performed, the happy pair set off for the City of Lo pend the honey-moon. At Doneraile, lately, by the Very Rev. Doctor O i. i n ji t ss James Cantillon, of the Little isl an d; E sq . t o th e a miabl e .Maume, of tat town. Doctor Ca h sper Bell, of Clonmel, to Frances, dough" Quinn, Esq. of LelOher C as tl e , i n t h e Co • lED. „,, ir o On Tuesday evening, the 16th 16th instant, in the O w I Twic f her age, Caroline, the wife of Mr. George•Sheplfeard , iterawn-coninfon, late of Great Om - fond-street.illness, in On Sun4y evening last, alter a long and painful the 37th year of her age, Sophia; will: et Mr. John Jcrc t o nr grocer, of High -Holborn. . • On Friday last, •at Stranraer, N. 8., in his 60th year, C ali Errol Boyd, Of London. of the At Clifton, On Monday last, Richard Cobham, EN Island of Barbadoes. Printed and Published, for the PnornrETons, at the ,b1: 1 ` OFFICE, 112, Strand, by . J. B. CAR.STAIIIS. f