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London, England, 1803-01-26 00:00:00

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SUICIDE.
[From the blot:m=l.3

A young man, very well dressed, coming from
Lyons on foot, arrived at four in the afternoon
thine weeks ago near an inn in the commune of
(.'hocas. He quitted the high road, and proceeded
to a lonely valley, about 300 paces distant. There
he was found on the Ist instant, stretched upon the
grass, and dead, his face upwards, and a horse
pistol in his right hand. The ball had entered be-
nfsth the chin, and had passed through the head.
A seco.id pistol loaded lay beside him. The fol.
kwing billet was found upon hitn:—
1m of honourable iiarents at Lyons—l never
swerwel from their principles. I be' those who
shall perform the last offices for me, to let me carry
to the grave the collar I have round my neck. Per-
haps, if it had not been for the head on which the
hair grew, of which that collar is made, I should
have died a natural death ; but since the period in
which Etc cut short her days, I have had no peace,
and I see no happiness for me, but is going to join
her.
" I have informed my parents : by letter, of my
resolution, and I leave them the power of claiming
me, or not. It is this that determines me to call
myself merely A. B."
A passport was found upon him, but he had taken
care to tear it into eight pieces, that his name and
hi, family might not be known. It was found out,
however, that the passport had been delivered by
the municipality of Dijon. Round his neck was a
collar, to which was suspended a jewel, containing
hair. Coaformably to his desire, his body was bu-
rted with the necklace round his neck.

MOtnea.---On Saturday night last a cool, de-
liberate, and horrid murder was perpetrated in
Greenwich Hospital, upon oue of the Pensioners, by
inother ; the circumstances of which, as nearly as
awe could collect, were as follow :—The perpreta-
tor, win. had been some years a Pensioner, who was
of a disposition so violent and quarrelsome, as to
render himself ve:ry obnoxious to his associates, and
became so extremely troublesome in this respect, at
the public-houses in the town, to which he was in
the habit of resorting that, for a considerable time
past, none of them would admit, or entertain him.
adthout a month since, he had been guilty of some
gross breach of duty, within the College, for which
fie was brought before the Board of Commissioners,
upon the charge of a fellow Pensioner, who acted
In the capacity of Boatswain, and the fact being
subst intiated, he was mulcted of two months pocket
money, and severely reprimanded, but without any
furtl•er disgrace.
however, was sufficient to exasperate him
to vengeance against his accuser, and another, his
birth-mate, who had ceiroborated hie testimony,
and on Saturday night he determined to carry his
purpose into execution : he went in the dead hour
of night into the cabbin, or apartment of the de-
ceased, who was alone and wrapt in sleep, and with
a large poker, at a single blow, literally beat out his
brains, and killed him so Instantaneously that he
never 'uttered a single groan. Fortunately for his
bed-fellow, os whom a similar fate was intended, he
had obtainci permission to sleep out of the hospital
that night with his family.
The murderer then went into the next birth,
where an aged Pensioner was in bed, and minutely.'
examined whether he was asleep, lest he might have
heard any thing of what had just passed. The man
erne, Itearl the blow, and expected every moment a
simila: fate, lay still as if fast asleep ; but on the
=St dezer having
.left h'm, and retired to his own
cabin, the man immediately got up, and alarmed
tee g-.:se-1, a party of whom directly came to the
place and secured the murderer, after a desperate
mist sum
2,Lisday morning the Coroner's Jury returned
their irrlict wilful autrder on the body of the
otklea2a, ar..4 the perpeetratoc wa, committed to
p,ruaacc.- Ad; but so far was he from evincing
avy mss. <remorse for the deed, at he only de-
yg.; mart at Dot having the opportunity of
hailt7:ne a may. who bad so fartnnuely
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