The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-01 00:00:00

AFFECIiki SUICIDE.

(From Ile Essex Herald.)
On Saturday evening last an inquest was held
at the Bell public-house, Little Waltham, before
ltobert Bartlett, Esq., Coroner, and a highly re-
spectable Jury, on the view of the body of Martha
Smith, only 18 years of age, who was found drowned
the same morning in a pond in that parish. The de-
ceased lived in the service of Mr. 11oldi,ch, surgeon,
of that place, and was stated to have possessed great
personal attractions, which, indeed, were apparent
PITH in death. A slight flush upon the face bespoke
her to have once been the " rosy-checked village
beauty ;" and her long light hair, which hung
loosely over the neck and shoulders, presented a
picture of melancholy interest. From the evidence
adduced before the Jury, it appeared that the
father of the deceased was a labourer, residing at
Broomfield, end that she went into the service of
Mr. Ilolditch about three years since. The deceased
always bore a good character, and, as her fellow-
servant stated, was particularly attached to William'
Milbank, the man-servant in the same family,
although she affected to deny it, A few days be-
fore the deceased committed the rash act, she re-1
ceived a letter, which her fellow•servant said she

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understood to be anonymous, and written in "rhym-
ing words, like valentine nonsense." The deceased,
as soon as she had read it, threw it into the fire,
since which time she had not been quite so talkative
us uses!. On Friday, evening the servant man was
sent out upon an errand, and when he returned, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, he fastened up the door.
As' soon as he hed done so, the deceased observed
to him, in rather an angry tone, " You need not
fasten the door, for I want to go •out," and imme-
diately got up and unfastened it. No angry
words had previously passed between her and any
of the servants, but Milbank stated that he. had
been bothering her, as he generally did. About
ten o'clock the deceased, according to order, took a
candle into her mistress's bed-room ; on going down
itairs she threw an apron over her head, and with-
(Mt speaking a work left the house. Her fellow-
servants supposing she would return in a few 'mi-
nutes went up stairs, but at length, being,alatmed
at her absence, they called their master and informed
him of 'the circumstance. Mr. Ilolditch imme-
diately got up ; u search was made in the )ard and-
fields adjoining, bin without effect. In the morn-
ing the river was dragged with the like result, but
about two rods from the footpath, in a 'hell oppo-
site the rectory, the body was found in a pond.
The grappling-iron at first caught the deceased's
apron, and the body was eventually brotight up.
The water, at the place where she was found, was
about seven feet deep. There was u slight braise
upon her hip, and another on her right band, which"
appeared to have been caused by striking egslosr
tho piles at the time she jumped in. Inquiries were
made before the Coroner and'Jury, whether the de-
ceased had formed any' connections, but nothing
transpired to warrant such a auspiehut on the con-
trary, her morals had been strictly Cultivated by her
kind master and neletrees, who were melt attached
to her, and now speak of her in terms of great re-
gret. She had never been in the habit of going out
of en evening. There being no further evidence to
show by what means the dec,eased came to the pond,
the jury, under the direction of the Coroner, re-
turned a verdict of " Found drowned."

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prevalent
meant to oppose it,
manner that it got the +.<t b .
Mr. R. Grant; but recent events haytiOsts rbt-,
taught the Premier and his colleagues e'difteiCnt
policy, and if any such opposition was aver intended
it must have been withdrawn. There' are few men
who stand so well the public, or deserVe to
stand so well with it, as Mr. Charles Grent. His
character, in all the relations of private life,-'it` not
ably beyobd cavil, but in every respect worthy of
nifitation ; while in public, the only fault that he has
ever committed is, that r f not having more' fre-
quently appeared as a speaker in the !louse of Com-
mons, for which he is eminently qualified, both by
his information on all matters on trade and com-
merce, but by the clear and distinct manner in
which he unfolds his opinions. We have always
regretted his secession, as well as that of Mr.
Huskisson and Lord Palmerston, from the Ministry,
as a great loss; and we now hail his return .as
decided gain to the " collective wiAom," ant! we
hope, ultimately, an accession to the King's Coon-
cils.—Abening Advertiser.
The most ominous defect which the Duke of
Wellington has yet experienced is that of which an
account reached us by the post of yesterday. Mr.
Charles Grant has been returned for the county of
Inverness, notwithstanding the canvassing le ters of
Mr. M‘Lcod, his rival, were franked at the Home
Office, to give the freeholders the assurance of the
high consideration in which he was held by Minh,•
tern, and notwithstanding the interest used with the
Lord Lieutenant of the County, 'and other friends
of Mr. Grant, to detach them from his enemy, which
have been in part successful. The trial of strength
took place on the rate for the Chairman, when,
without counting disputed vote*, Mr. Macpherson
Grant, of Belladrum, wee appointed, in preference
to Colonel '
Grant, of Grant (she Lord Lieutenant),
by a majority of 34 to 26. Those who' know any
thing of Scotch County Election', must knew that
in keenness of scent the Smith freeholders ere not
surpassed by any men in existionae.
.I(lwhisre we
see Ministers exerting themselves, as if the matter
were one of life and death, to keep out Mr. Charles
Grant, and yet, with a set of men so keenly alive to
the blessings of the Treasury, they have failed.
flow is this ? Where one or two great proprietors
ran command a majority of vote', there are instances
of Ministers having been defeated;. but in an inde-
pendent Scotch county there is no former 'instance
of corruption not carrying the day. In fact a Scotch
freeholder would in general consider it as an insult,
implying some defect in his understanding, to charge
him with voting against the Administration for the
time being. It is one of those acts of imprudence
in Scotland which would place a man in danger of
that sort of ordeal to which Mr. Anderton was lately
subjected. Those who kuow the prodeeee .atol
wordly wisdom of the Scotch freeholders in inde-
pendent counties, will arrive at any conclusion . ra-
ther than that the Scotch are on a wrong scent.
The 7 must have strong suspicions of the tenure of
is Minister, before they turn their backs on him.
Prudent men will know what to think of this augury.
—Abetting chronicle.
We regret to find that the account of Mr. Cob-
bett's Lecture at the Rotunda, on Monday' night,
which appeared in the Chronicle of yesterday, is
drawn up in a tone of which we cannot' approve.
On the subject of the French Revolution, and its
probable effect on this country, different persons will
of course entertain different opinions; but our object
on this, as on all occasions, was to lay a fair account
of the sentiments uttered by the speaker before our
readers, that they might judge for themselves, and
not to supply the place of such account by sneering
and flippancy. It is possible that we may differ in
opinion with Mr. Cobbett respecting the object
and intentions of James the Second, and respecting
other points of his Lecture ; but that would have
been no reason with us for speaking of the
Lecture in the way our Reporter spoke of it.
The attempt at ridicule on account of throwing the
French Revolittion overboard, is the More displaced,
I as Mr. Cobbett had distinctly stated that his object
in addressing the working classes " ost the' subject
of the recent events in Prance," was to Offer them
" his advice as to the conduct which 'they them-
selves ought to pursue, in order to assist in obtain-
ing a ust reform in the CoMmims Nauss'
ment."j Indeed it is not eisy to see in what way a
Lecture on the events of Preece could have been of
any benefit, but by an application of thent to our
domestic affairs. We have no doubt, too, that the
observations as to the difference between the Revo-
lution of 1688 and the late French Revolution, were
far from being unsuitable to the occasion ; for the
moat erroneous views are but too generally enter-
tained in this country as to the Revolution of 168t4.
That Revolution was not a popular movement, hut
a tictory of the Aristocracy over the King, who
thenceforward became merely the President of the
body, to whom was delegated the carving out the
good things among them. William wes three days
in England before a soul joined him; in fact, the
people (lid not stir till it was seen that King William
was safe without them.—Aforning Chronicle.
We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday,
including the lifesaver des Chandees, dated Mon-
day. The success of General 13audrand's' mission

is published in these journals, rind the announce-
meta of that favourable result, which wag so anxi-
ously desired, has -diffused general '-istlifaction
throughout Paris, The courier Francois- pietelids
to know what passed In our tibiae .on this impor-
tant question. It is stated, that same slight objec.,
lions raised to the recognition of Laois Philip, by
the Duke of Wellington being temOvetl by the Per-
sonal wish of his ltilsjesty, and by the observations
of Sir IL Peel, the decision of the Council,was
unanimous. It is further stated, that the envoys of
Charles X. exerted themselves to retard the recog-
nition, The exiled Court was desirous, to obtain
some delay, in the hope that' the other Powers of
Europe would, in the meantime, declare f hemtel wee
in its favour. We have no dilEculty in pronouncing
the whole of this story to be it gross anti, unfounded
fabrication. _ There was not a moment's hesitation

in our Cabinet respecting the recognition.. The
Commission appointed by the Chamber of Deputies
to examine the late Ministers proceeded,
.it appears,
to Vincennes on Sunday, to commence that duty.
When our neighbour* ascertain hem this inquiry,
and also from the perusal of the official dot-meats
found in the portfolios of the, late Alinistera, that
ihe Duke of Wellington was stow rill to any oh
the proceedings of. Polio's**, and -was, when pee-
rally consulted, the strenanes appointee of arbitrary
measures, the bonds of frisidsh)p. Eukb""l
and France will, we hare no doubt, become closer
and firmer. No step is omitted by England which
can indicate good-will to. Front*. ,We believe that
it is not intended, at least at present, to send a new
Atribeintailor,to Paris; but new credentials were
forwarded on Friday Isat to Lord Stuart de Roth.
say, which will put him at once into the regular
relations of friendly communication with the new
Govemment of Frenie. The review of the Na-
tiotoil Guard, to the number of fio,ooo roan, took
place on Sunday in the
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op' with great order and regularity. Ali the Paris
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some of the unfortunate hAptirtish es' ttivtaa. ‘e01:yo
have for so many years sought reftagl4le this'cottu.
try, which, if well founded es no doubt
Will
be redressed, on the eircumstaneett Whig brought to
the notice of NS laws' ites idivt4tits, #t oppoug

ni.lt exile; n
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)eneee4, the English'

,sxse
sieved from the charge or
their. Were inerr.seiranee. But it is reported that
within these two or three weekS, or, in other worth,
since the present Constitutimed Government has
been established in France, the travelling allowance
formerly grented by the. Government of Great Bri-
tain to these poor Spaniards has been in many ins
atancea refused. There is another point connected
with this subject, on which we shall take the oppor-
tunity of remarking, because it is one, which 'affects
the refugee Spaniards more tenderly than a mere in.
convenience or privatioe can do. It touches them
as men of right and honourable feeling. It has often
been made a reproach to them for these two orthree
last years, that they were at liberty to return to Spain,
but that they would not—that Ferdinand was mer-
ciful, but that they were contumacious and un-
grateful ; and ant, in short, they preferred existing
here on charity and in obscurity, to the en-
joyment of ease, and comfort, and personal
letelom, and alt other blessings at home. Gene-
retie Ferdinand! Graceless patriots l Liberal and
reasonable censors I In the first place, Ferdinand,
though we believe that he had been long end ear-
nestly urged to it by this Government, never did or
would grant an amnesty for political offences, which
in terms or spirit could be construed as a protection
to the emigrants domiciled here. In the next place,
if he had published such en amnesty, - who would
have been credulous enough to trust hiM ? Reek-
ing seal treachery, buried to the throat in perjury
and infamy, what dolt- would have trusted him to
the amount of twopence ? To explain this matter
more distinctly. We once did put the question to
a noble Spaniard, after hearing that some of his
eiuntrymen had been blamed for not accepting cer-
tain facilities offered to them with a view to their
return to the Peninsula. We asked him directly—
" Why do you not go yourself ?" His answer was
as follows :—" Because I know bow faithless and
worthless is the word of Ferdinand : should I go
home to my own country to-morrow, and repair to
Madrid, there ierno question that, so far from treat.
ing meuncivilly, he would receive me with compli-
ments and smiles. I might pass two days agree-
ably,—perhaps it week; what next ? Why, in the
dead of the night 1 should be seized, by order of
the Minister of Justice; dragged sway to u dun-
geon; accused by some suborned witnesses of crimes
which I had 'never dreamed of, and hanged or shot
without further ceremony." This, then, is the feel-
ing under which Spaniards, who had by dreadful evi-
dencebeen taught to distingnish between the promisee
and deeds of a traitor, shrunk from the kindness pro-
posed to them by honest, lint not very considerate
mediators, interceding with Ferdinand to forgive his
exiled subjects. And whit was the charge egainst
these virtuous and glorious men ? The monstrous
one, that they bad resisted a foreign invader, who
tame to scourge end reduce, their country to
bondage I Yet it is still recommended by certain,
and even amiable and respectable person, that now,
when the hour of retribution is at hand, Spain
should forfeit all the benefit of an eXperietlee regis-
tered in the blood or ruin of her most enlightened
citizens) and her most illustrious families, and again
place herself, her rights, her laws, and institudoes,
at the disposal of this same perfidious Prince, wheats
broken oaths and foul pereecutione have rendered it
almost a mercy to the Spanish name to forget that
it mice belonged to a great and gallant people. But
it will not be so. The trick now pusillanimously
resorted to by Ferdinand will, we trust, not save
him from the salutary vengeence of an insulted
nation. Ile has been advised, it, would seem, by
subtle counsellors, to nriticipato the death-blow
prepared for his despotism, by tendering
volun-
tarily all that his- subjects can require—to grant
is universal amnesty—to restore the national pro-
perty—to acknowledge the national debt—to
assemble the national Cortex---to be a carnotite-
dons' instead of an arbitrary King: but we
repeat, it comes too late. Ho did all this before :
he accepted a constitetion--he swore to it—he
" gloried in the.Corteo"—he "clever was so happy
until then;" and what followed? Every preroga-
five that was foolishly bestowed on him by that
Cortes he employed (or their destruction. Every
refinement of perfidy that could be: conceived or
practised was the daily business of, his life, Whets;
aver game lie played before the world, Ferdinand
had no Cartes but the Camarilla. More cunning
than his brother Carlos, and more cowardly, no
erioner had lie overthrown the Constitution, than be
would have recalled the Itiquisiiims, as advised by
Carlos, to serve at once for a legislative and executive
authority, had he not felt that iniquity in is laymaa's
garb was au instrument less suspected and equally
efficacious, especially when reinforced by a sweeping
proscription of two-thirds of the high nobility and nine-
tenths of the talent and moral chatact erof Ids dominions.
It therefore may be received :as a first principle of
the policy which is most likely to be pursued by the
Constitutional Spaniards, that neither Ferdinand the
neth-breaker, nor Carlos the Inquisitor, will be much
longer suffered to disgrace the Spanish throne and
nation. Referring- to our Madrid letter of this day,
we must observe that our correspondent seems
wholiy to understand the power and character of the
constitutional party. In fact, he admits in one lien-
' truce that there is ne " Lick of elment% for a revo-
lution in the country,"--an ecknoWledgment with
which, though unconscious of it, he makes subsequent
allegations which are not quite coeeistent.—Thnes.
The verdict against Mr. St. John Long is, in our
humble opinion, a very useful one. We do nor
mean to trample on a man already fallen, but we think
it a ditty not to lose a At opportunity of inculcating
truth. This truth is so obvious, that tt child may
understelid it, and yet the late extraordinary inquiry
has shoWn that men and women of respectable eta-
tion and talent may overlook it : it is, that though
ignorance may occasionally stumble and deviate into
a right course, yet knowledge and experience are
the only safe guide.. We are not so rash as to hope
that this verdict will effect aey serious cure of that
creditlous weakness to which 'so large a portion of
mankind is subject ; but though dupes may and will
abound as long us folly and Conceit exist, yet the ,
twipide will be. somewhat alarmed when he finds that
--even the patronage of Lords and Ladies cannot save
hind from the consequence of his gross and ignorant
rashness. The inquiry certainly exhibits very slight
evidence of sense or judgment its that which is
usually, thought, amid, is, iu feet, on many accounts,
moat respectable the direlples of the Prophet Bre-
theta, 'of the Shiloh-woman, Southeotes could net
fail- with more heart-long eagerness into error, or
ding to their error with more courageous obstinacy.
What' hopes must not the eonditet of such persona
have inspired into every quack in- the kingdom, if it
had not been for that theful trispabic epithet—
matulaughlee, 'Oda an honest jury has tallied to
the conduct Of this- great idol of popular far?
- Mast of our readers, we dare say, recollect the con-
(elision of .4 famous empiric at Bath, who was asked
by a physician, who met him in the street, bow it
was that he contrived to have ti constant influx of
lettheteswhile the regular praetitiotiere had scarcely
wry applicants ? "While you have been making
shoe remark," said the- Quack, " how many people
do Vera think have passed us ? The physician an-
"veredr "Perhaps ten or dozen," How many of
thht *mother," resumed the Quack,. Possess ,a,
Sound, rational judgment ?" " Flow . 644'
-the others not above (me in ten." " Even that
odeldationr said the shrewd and. candid ems
pidc, 00 is too - ; it will e • lei '
the point at issue t • thessniee ignorant fools
to the Qusek.....the 'one. ratineuisatiga
to
the regularlyserineatert physician."'t -4'l' °IN slest
ory
• itpnitgatknOW its it was fifty years ago ,
Mei and oisstinacy, sad, let it be -mtii.*ttirt;,-;*,
Nick wapiti pain, (40441, like drowning pemita,
at even 'Atrawl tot succour, . will always supply ill:
memos ilnpes for the Impudent and tslrantuilrle to act
Upottk
~We see now more then ever. that 144 )0,14
of reformation of-ate seitteldefsestH he deduced froth
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