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London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

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Mn. FROUDE'S SUMMARY OF 10 TIS /4,141.
WERE TAKEN TO INQUIRE Its
FATE, vet.)e, eithtcrtherl - S
In deference in the general 0
jar 'n
quirt' was protracted, or a secon d s Dudley
suggested, was chosen. Lord 11'.obert ht,:nself was
profoundly anxious, althouh-h his anxiety majr have
been as much for his own re's 'utati on as for the dis -
covery of the truth. Yet the) exert: ors to unravel
the mystery still failed of their effect. No one, could
be found who had seen Lady Dei.lleY fall, and she
was dead when she was discovered. Eventually,
after an investigation apparently -witht ut precedent
for the strictness with which it hart bee' I conducted,
the jury returned a verdict of accilmta, ' death, and
Lord Robert was thus formally acqu,ttea'. Yet the
conclusion was evidently of a kind whjc would not
silence suspicion ; it was not proved that Lady
Dudley had been murdered; but the cc eise of the
death was still left to conjecture; and v, eere there
nothing more—were Cecil's words to De- Qeadra
proved to be a forgery—.a cloud would . rest
over Dudley s fame. Cecil might well have 7ritten
of him, as he did in later years, that he "
s in-
famed by his wife's death ;" and the shadow w
. Bich
Popular belief, woult 1, be
hung over his name in the
intelligible even if it was undeserved.
A paper re-
mains, however, among Cecil's MSS., which pr OW. 3
that Dudley was less zealous for inquiry than ha
seemed; that his unhappy wife was indeed m ur-
dared ; and that with proper exertion the guilty
persons might have been discovered. That the re
should be a universal impression that a particul ax
person was about to be made away with, that this
parson should die in a mysterious violent manner.,
and yet that there should have been no foul play
after all, would have been a combination of coinci-
dences which would not easily find credence in a.
well-constituted court of justice. The strongest
point in Dudley's favour was that be sent his wife's
half-brother, John Appleyard, to the inquest.
Appleyard, some years after, in a fit of irritation.,
" let fall words of anger, and said that for Dudlefa
sake he had covered the murder of his sister."'
Being examined by Cecil, he admitted that the In-
vestigation at Cumnor had, after all, been inane-•
quately conducted. He said " that he had oftentimes
moved the Lord Robert to give him leave, and V)
countenance him in the prosecuting of the trial of
the murder of his sister—adding that he did take
the Lord Robert to be innocent thereof ; but yet he
thought it an easy matter to find out the offenders
—affirming thereunto, and showing certain circum-
stances which moved him to think surely that she
was murdered—wherenpon he said that the Lord
Robert always assured him that he thought it was
not fit to deal any further in the matter, considering,
that by order of the law it was already found.
otherwise, and that it was so presented by a jury.
Nevertheless the said Appleyerd in his speech said
upon examination, that the jury had not as yet
given up their verdict." If Appleyard spoke the .
truth, there is no more to be said. The conclusion
seems inevitable, that, although Dudley- was inno-
cent of a direct participation in the crimo, th e un-
happy lady was sacrificed to his ambitiov. She
was murdered by persons who hoped to profit by
his elevation to the throne ; and Dudley himeelt '—
aware that if the murder could be proved pubi is
feeling would forbid his marriage with the Queeel
—used private means, notwithstanding his affectsee
tion of sincerity, to prevent the search from being-
pressed inconveniently far. But seven years had
passed before Appleyard spoke, while the world in
the interval was silenced by the verdict ; and those
who wished to be convinced pei-haps believed Dud-
ley innocent. It is necessary to remember this to
understand the conduct of Cecil.

The Death or .

The Ladies in the Citadel bf Warsaw.

WARSAW, Niv.

The ladies who were taken some days ago t 0 the
Citadel will proceed to-day or to-morrow to Ittlssia
by railway. It is not known to what part of the
empire they will be sent. The young girls Nv.t.,o
were arrested lately are not excluded from tldi
transportation. The father of the twin sinters
Fleiecher, who are but 15 years of age, begged-
:3eneral Rczwadowski to tell him the crime for
which his children had received this dreadful pen-
tence, and was answered that they urn charged with
no particular crime, bat that General Berg thought
it advisable instantly to send them away from the
city, together with the other ladies. Ho refused
the prayer of the unfortunate father that he might
be told the place to which his children would be
sent, in order to enable him to send a person of
more mature age to look after them. Tonight all
the rich inhabitants who were lately arrested, GO
in number, are to be sent away, nobody knows
whither. It is a fact that these persons, both ladies
and gentlemen, will be transported without trial
or hearing of any kind, but simply on the order of
General Berg. That this has already several times
been the case appears from letters received here
from the Asiatic frontier, which state that the
transported prisoners did not even have a hearing.
No preparation whatever is made for the journey ;
the prisoners are not even supplied with warm
clothing, and nearly all have in consequence fallen
ill on the way.—Breslau Gazette,