The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-02 00:00:00

SUICIDE.

Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, one of the
Gn suds, named Davis, who was on duty in St.
Jamesos Park, between the Horse Guards and the
buck of the Admiralty, was observed by a person
who passed by, to pull off one of his gaiters and shoe,
and attempt to put the muzzle of his musket in his
mouth, but, being a short nun, he could nut reach
it ; he then stepped into his but, which was about
sic inches from the groans', and put the butt of the
musket on the ground, the muzzle in his mouth,
and contrived to fire it, by putting bis toe on the
trigger; .he ball passed through his head, which
WAS literally blown to pieces, except a little of the
back part. It is supposed he hid doubly cli.lt
the musket, as v... cartridges and balls were no
tram his po.tcl. No cause can be assigned fur this
rash aM. A short time before he went upon duty,
he was in company with several of his aomrad:s,
and appeared in very high spirits. He was a very
steady man, and much respeaed in the regiment.

Yesterday morning a girl about sixteen years of
age, servant to Mr. Ectior, Cook, in Red-Lion-
street, Whitcchapel, hanged her self upon the post
of the bed, where she usually slept. Being Ire-
quendy called for, and not answering, the dour was
forced open, when she was found lifeless—Disap.
pointment in love is yposed to have been the cause.
The body remains at the house for the Coronet's
Inquest.
Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, as Roarer RECIC•
VI'S was digging a grave of great depth, in the
Church-yard of St. Mary, Newington Butts, Surry,
one of the sides gave way (from wain of caution in
not using the frame provided on purpose to hi Id up
the ground), and with a head-stone jammed him so
close under the mould, that several people were
nearly an hour in digging up the body, although
it was in an uptight posture. Messrs. SAIMAatY
and Dixon, Surgeons, were ready at the grave,
and ashen the body was recovered, Mr. Dittos at-
tended it to the late dwelhng-house of the deceased,
and tried every means to procure respiration; but
the sp.trk of lite was gone. A widow and five
children, one of whom is deaf and dumb, are, by
this sudden accident, reduced to extreme poverty,
and have also tr. mourn the death of an affeßionate
husband, aad tender parent; whilst all his employ-
ers have sincerely to lament the loss of a civil,
obliging, and tudastrious set rant.

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INTERCPS7II6 LETTERS.
JEROME BONAPARTE.
British cruiserson the coast of America bairn in.
tercepted p pas.cel, containing original, confide !nal.
and oiScial 14ters trim Naorilerui Bonaparte to his
brother Jerome, and from Talleyrand to the l•re ch •
Mi lister in America. The names, rin,l-r some of
thew letters are signed with the names at full length
but there are others with only initials. Among the
latter is one signed I. B. 0( supposed Joseph Boma-
parte), and another 1.. B. (supposed Letitia Bona-
parte), addressed to Moniirur Jerome. In die
letter from Napoleon; Jerome is severely re.
proachcd (Or his rieeeadiee marriage in a family of
la tamale mare/sande, or, of the mercantile rabble
orderer immediately to renounce his wife, and em-
bark for France, where 4,-i,err., rank, and riches,
await him, if obeciient ; ash:lst, on the contrary, if
ebstinate, poverty and obscurity are to be his only
lot, as a senalur contultus, which, were he in France,
would proclaim him an Imperial Highness, shall
otherwise prevent him and his, posterity ever from
using and dishonouring the great name of &ma-
parte ; ~.nd the sword of the r:rand Admire; of
France, intended for him, shall be disposed of to
distant, but more worthy relatives " Joseph's let- I
ter to Jerome is merely a copy of that of Napoleon's;
and though he presses Jerlgne to obey the Ern-
ricer's cuiverend,r, be does it with so bad a grace, as
if he seemed appalbensive that the• arrival of his /
younger brother in France would diminish his own
ambitious views and expeaations. Two-thirds ot
the letter are said to express, in strongest terms, the
terrible anger, and the terrible effects of Napoleon's
anger, which demand pert of conth«-I of Je-
rome before the Emperor's frac re,/ affeaion can be '
restored. The letter of Madame Bonaparte. the .
mother, to her son, is full of Caiholsc sentiments. •
As a true Christian of the Cit.loks Church, she lean
as much the damnation of her son Jerome in %ha .
next world, as his disgrace in this, for marrying JJJ
into a family of heretic., a wife educated in the 1
same principles of eternal perditma as her parents.
She exhorts her son not to go to Framer, but to join
her in Italy, where she will endeavour to make his
and Lucien's peace at the same time with their In.-
perial brother. She hints that his Holiness the Pops
has made no objeaion to pronounce his marriaee
with a heretic void, and that she laps fixed upon a
young Roman Princess, of the Colonna Family,
as his future wife, whose religion is as pars as her
birth is illustrious. To console the tense* .ary Mae-
dame Jerome, she offers to settle upon her an annuity
6000 livres (2501.), if she will bee'me a Catholics
and retire into some Spanish, or Italian convent.
Our Minister in America is informed by
rand, that the Emperor's command is, that he shall
try all means in his rower to persuade Jenks* to
embark immediately for Europe, and it without Elle-
cess, stop the imperial allowance, entic?ina on
board, and even use secret violence in lore g him to
embark without his pretended wife, whom the Mi-
nister has full authority to employ whatever secret k.
means he may judge necessary to mow( Tier out of
the way. The Minister is ordered to repeat to the
President Jefferson the Emperor's iFspkasure. fur
not interfering with his bro her's match. which.
though lawful according to the laws of Ansoticea
is illegal according to the laws o: Frame, sn'whicks
alone Frenchmen are subjeaed, whcreorr Mr; rear.
He is requested to tacitly permit those jneasines If
:Ivor which the family honour u: thir toaapartes
require on this occasion, to equip an 4maican fri-
gate to carry Jerome. without his encimbrance. to
Prance, at the expence of the Emperor, who, in,
return, will insure him a re-eleaioa as a president.
and even, upon certain contidions, a presidency fis,
life over the American States. General Turreau„
of terrorist memory, whom the Emperor has ap-
pointed his representative its America, will inform
the l'resident of the Emperor's demands and in-
trnts ; and has inso Mons to support him, and
even head any party that shall take up arms against ,
the Ant.4erran Federalists, who are to be e:terniinoted,
should they dare to oppose his re-eleetim. Tur-
reau will let Mr. Jefferson, if his future condo& be
agreeable, more into the Emperor's secret sfiews,
with regard to Spain and her colonies--wiiich, when
Europe is pacified, may easily be pariusonrdisetweel '
the s obj, els of the Emperor, and vec of the s.Pre-
sident.
These are the principal contents of the intereepesi
Imperial Family C.,rresponilence, of which we • ave •
obtained copies from our Correspondent at Bain.
more—where, as well as every where else in Ame-
rica, they are circulated by English emissaries, enc.
mess to the quiet and gi ry of our illultrious, rev.).
lutiunary, Corsican, ..00-cumtes Dynasty; which,
with so much dielt7l, and so many unmet, has put
the rank, the throae, the palaces, and she property
of the French Bourbons, in requisition fur thee&
selves. When Monica~ Jerome is susey arrived in
France, and Madame Jerome rgrcly remand in Arne-
, rice, we shall publish a panegyric on the former,
and a funeral sermon on the latter

COPY OP ONE OF Tiii: INTERCEPTED LIETTERI TI

Tell )11141511:R U 1 MAAIMS TO JEltolla /lONA.

" I have just been fulfilling, my dear Jerorit, a
rigorous duty imposed upon use by the First Consul
that of forbidding the C .I Len Ptchon to supply you
w.th money, and precr,Sing to him to prohibit all
the Captains of French vessels from receiving on
board the young person to whom you have attached
yourself; it being the intention el the Fi st Consul
that she shall on n pretext whatever come into
France, and should she happen to present herself,
that she shall not be received, but be reirobarked tor
the United States without delay.
Such, my dear Jerome, are the orders svh;ch I
have been obliged literally to transmit, and which
have been given on, and repeated aft:r the interval
of a month, with such a solemn seventy, as neither
allowed me to withhold them altogether, nag- to
soften them in the slietest degree.
" After the discharge set ibis serer:: duty, I can.'
net, my dear Jerome, deny myself the pleasure of
lengthening my letter in a way wh'ek the attach-,
meat I tees to yon will we? rant, and our militari as
soc..uion entitles mete. If I loved you leis--tf tba
sentiments vrtli which you have inspired .i.e, du. no.
1:- perfectly accord wnn rho,: which I u ve to your
fund —if Clore were mot between you and me a sort)
of companionship in aims, and of intimacy V. uacai

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