The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-23 00:00:00

SUICIDE.

We have the painful necessity of re-ording ano-
ther melancholy instance of suicide, which has oc-
curred in the person of a gentleman of reputable
conneetions in the mercantile world : —On Saturday
evening last, about eight o'clock, a Gentleman, ac-
companied by a man having the appearance of a
ticket porter, called a coach off the stand in the
Borough, and ordered the coachman to drive to
Vauxhall. At Newington Turnpike the porter got
out, and the coachman proceeded to his place of
destination ; when he got there he was ordered
to drive back again, and which order was counter-
ordered, by ordering him to return to Vauxhall.—
They stopped at a house there, and the coachman
hal a letter given him to deliver, which WAS, at
the same moment snatched away from him. with the
expression, " it is not a time to deliver it now; drive
back again." The gentleman was alive when the
coach came to Newington, as he answered the
coachman ; but, on stopping in Union street, he
was fouud a shocking speCtaclv, weltering in his
blood, with his throat cat in so dreadful a manner,
that his head was nearly severed from his body.
As the blood was then sowing copiously, the body
WAS taken to the Hospital, in hopes it might not be
too late to afford him assistance; but it was too late,
the lamp of life was wholly extinguished.
On inquiry, there is every reason to suppose that
a mental derangement only could have caused him
to commit so rash an ad, which was done most ef-
feClitally. He was only 2t years of ale, in easy
circumstances, and lived happily with his relations.

'The Hon. Capt. C A DOG AS. is returned to Ports-
mouth from London. 1 his gallant young Officer
was plundered of all his clothes, except what
he had on, by the Frenchman on board of
which he was put. Ile was Afterwards landed at
Martinique, where the Captain-General, Joy ruse,
treated him with every civility. He was shortly
after exchanged, and sent to Bat badoe4 from whence
he came passenger in the //lidetrieas.
A midshipman, about eighteen years of age, be-
longing to one of His Masser v'sships of war, lately
arrived at Yarmouth, was on Monday examined be-
fore Sir RICHARD Folio, at Bow.street, upon nu-
merous charges of forgery. Sir Ric!. ARD FORD hu-
rriaarly advised the friends of the Prisoner to settle
the business.--The Prisoner was remanded.

The Ameercssi Cothur. in the City, has received
from the Asttercatl MINISTER at Madrid. the copy
of an Order issued by the Court of Spain, with re-
gard to the capture of American ships. 'llth order
bears date from the Palace of St. Ildephonso, on
the 25th ult. an.l is addressed to the Secretary of.
State for the condua of the Spaaish Admiralty.—
It states, in substance, " That the Minister of the
Hinted States, having complained of many outrages
committed against American traders, and particu-
larly of the capture of eleven ships, which had been
carried into Algesiras, upon no other plea thssn that
they had English property on hoard, His Coq riu tic
M S J tsr Y is pleased to order the immediate release
of ail such vessels as are detained upon that ground,
and that compensation should be made for such
time, elm. as the vessels woe so detained ; adding,
that a clause in the Treaty between Spain arid the
American States, ensures the proteaion of even the
enemy's merchandise in American bottoms." The
Order concludes with a direr:lion for the treatment
of neutral vessels, captured upon other grounds, ac-
cording to the usual forms in the pass cow is of
Spain, and prescribes, that copies of the Order
should be immediately transmitted to the several
Commanders of the Spa7Aish navy ; to those of pri-
vateers, &C.