The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-19 00:00:00

MORBID 111URDEii.

(From a Calcima' paper, of De'teiribi.ii
The two Militia-men who were. found "guilty, on
Thursday last, of the murder of Capt. JAMES II N.:.
SON, were executed in the Loll Baiar, on Saturday,
pursuant to their sentences, and their bodies not
hang in chains at a place called Melancholy-Point,
below. Gordon Reach._

.. • .
Of the, particulars of the-torrid mOrclor of which
these wretched. men were most clearly conviaed, the
following appeared in evidence on their trial : ' _

The Perseverance sailed from Penang, fo
Pegu, in the month of April last. Nothing worthy
of remark happened until the third night after they
left Penang; when, between twel,:e and one o'clock,
of that night, the. Witnesses (who were,an Arme-
nian passenger, the butler, Captain's cook,, and a
Klashy) were alarmed with an unusual. noise upon
deck; where they instantly proceeded, and found
that the Chief Mate had been or severely
wounded; and was then lying near the forecastle.—
They direally- saw the Captain .coming out of't,hd
cuddy door,. with ,a drawn sword ;. when he. ^d-
dressed the Gunner, and said; For God's 'sake;
don't take my life, and. deliver up the ship to
you." He was then between the wheel, and the
cuddy door, when the Sensunhy, who suffered on
'Saturday, instantly plunged a crease into his heart ;
'he was then heard twexciairni " 0 Lord !" and, it
seems, instantly died. He had wounded one of the
Seacunme-s, but, being pent under the poop, he had
not sufficient room to wield his sword in his
fence. • -

Having'kcomplished..their infernal design so ftir,
they ordered the Captain's cook, who had hid him-
self in ihe long boat, to take the wheel, under the
pain of death, if he refused.--The Armenian passen,•
ger was then called; the gunner told.him they had
killed the Captain, and said, " we will now- kid
you." He begged hard to spare his life, and they
did so.

They then ordered the Serang.to lowet down the
pinnace, and put into her a cask of water, some big-
cuit,'.&c. and then ordered the butler to give them
some gin and a chest of wine. They then took, all
the dollars and articles of plate they could find, put
them into a dirty clothes-bag, and sent them into
boat, with three Seacunnies, a woman and a boy,
the Serang and four-Liscars, the Armenian, butler,
and cook.

The gunner and three SeacunnieS•femained in the
boat for some time -; during which they Were,
plOyed in driving the Lascars into the hold, and bat-
tering down the hatches ; which being accomplish--
ed, they set fire to the Ship, by putting oakum; tar,
and gunpowder upon the tarpaulines upon the
hatches. They continued on board until the rigging
was on fire, and beginning to tumble down ; they
then went into the boarand
_pushed off, leaving nd
less than 42 or 43 Lascars to perish in the flames.
They now proceeded towards the land, and kept
strict watch over the Serang and Lascars, who were
obliged to pull the boat three days and nights, until
they reached an uninhabited island;supposed to have
been one of the Arrows, where they landed.
The butler, cook, Serang, and two or three Lascars; •
being permitted to go to a spring of water, to wash
themselves, found means of making their escape into
the jungles, where they continued Wandering foi
some days, until at length they saw a Malay prow, •
which- took them on board, and carried them to
another island, the 'Chief of •which sent. them 5
Penang.,
We have not• heard how the Armenian made his
escape. -It is supposed that they murdered the wo-
man, and also the other four associates; and we are
led to believe that the witnesses,
,who'so fortunately
and providentially made their escape, would bare
shared the same, fate. A passenger, of the name of
Palmer, is said to' have been also killed on board the

On- Monday last the Funeral of the late Hon.
MARY LEIGH, attended by a numerous and respea-.
able tenantry, proceeded from Stoneleigh•Abbey for
interment in the fathily vault in Stoneleigh Church,
where an excellent and appropriate Sermon was de-
livered on the occasion by the Rev. Mr, ThomAs,
Vicar of the Parish.—This Ladyi eminently distin-
•guished by her piety and extensive charities, was the
last of that branch of the• Leigh Family which de-
scended from the second son of Sir THOMAS LEIGH,
Lord Mayor of Loudon at the accession of Queen
Elizabeth. She has by her last will (made in 1786,
-after the death of her brother EDWARD, the last
Lord LEIGH), settled all her estates upon that
branch of the family which descended from Row-
LAND, eldest son of Sir THOMAS LEIGH, in the fol-
lowing•order :—First, on tlyp Rev. THOMAS LEIGH,
of Adlestrop, in the County of Gloucester; secondly,
on JAMES PERROT, Esq. of Scarlet, in the County
of Berks ; thirdly, ,on JAMES HENRY LEIGH, Esq.
of Adlestrop, and his issue male, and'in the failure
of such issue, on THOMAS CHARLES Lord Viscount
TRACEY, Dr. JOHN TRACEY, and HENRY TRACEY,
Esq. in tail male successively ; in failure of their
issue male, on Sir JUSTINIAN ISHAM, Bart. and his
issue male, and in failure thereof on his male heir for
ever.

A few days since a field preacher, who had seen
a printer, observed, in his nasal harangue, " that
youth might be compared to a comma ; rnAhood to
a semicolon; old age to a colon: to which death puts
a period.