The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-17 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

(From the Graham's Tcwn Journal, May 10.) •
CHIEF MACOMO—ATROCIOUS OCCURRENCE.
The following report reached our bands yesterday from corres-
pondents on whose statements we place the utmost reliance. The cir.
curabtances detailed are equally as revolting as they are distressing, and
call loudly upon his Excellency the Governor fur the fullest and most
rigid inquiry.

It appears that an English settler, named Carpenter, the sufferer in
this case, obtained some time ago a piece of ground at Fort Beaufort.
On making thelate treaties with the Kafirs this plot of ground, on
which he had built, and otherwise bcstowod much labour and expense,
was, however, measured into the Kafir territories, and the poor man has
been since living there by the I. ufferance of the Kafirs, by whom he has
been repeatedly plundered. It was on the plea, therefore, of his living
on the wrong side of the boundary line that Macomo was induced to
play the despot in the matter in question, and which led to the 0,41,
interference of the authorities at Fort Beaufort.
One account which we have received gives an outline of the case as
follows

" A very lamentable occurrence has lately occurred here. About a
fortnight ago a Fingoe, in the service of old Mr. Carpenter, having been
shot at night about ten o'clock, ISlacomo had the affair given to him to
decide, which he did by declaring that Carpenter himself had shot the
Fingoe. After a mock trial he was dragged away by the Kafiri ; his
life was purchased by the whole of his property, which was seized by
the savages. This took placr on Saturday, on the piece of ground al-
lotted to bins by the Government, which has since been given up to the
Kafirs. They took all his cattle, thirty sheep, his tools, clothes, wa;7gon,
&c. Having plied up the waggon as full as they could, Maeomo seated
himself on the top of his booty, smoking his pipe and laughing exult-
ingly, while his men, assisted by the Kafir police, spanned in the oxen,
and they departed, driving the remainder of the cattle before them. I
was present dui»; the whole of the proceedings, and I assure you there
was not the smallest proof to convict Carpenter. Macome, however,
said, If he did not do it, he must tell who did t'
" The poor old man is now left at the ago of sixty.four years, depri vcd
of his all, and without the means of getting a living. His wife, ren-
dered frantic by the circumstances, was missing last evening, and wLs
sought for se' eral hours in vain. She has, however, been discovered
this morning drowned in the river near her former re,idence. Her bon.
net and cap were found in the deserted house. Such a distressing cir-
cumstance I never before witnessed.
" I shall send you per first opportunity the full account, which I
have written down, and you will see there was no more proof against
the unfortunate man than against you or I. It is highly probab'e t ,at
the Kafirs did it themselves, iii order to enrich themselves by the poor
man's property,"

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A GLUTTON.—On Thursday, the 28th of Juhe,
being the festival of the Coronation, a person named John Richardson,
residing at Staley bridge, swallowed, at a dinner at Buxton, six pounds
of plum pudding, eight pound sof beef, about four pounds of mutton, a
considerable quantity of potatoes, and seven pints of Buxton ale. The
man who has performed the feat.generally goes by the name of d..ort-
armed Jack, the pot.selier.
Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, the body of
a young man, in a state of nudity, Ins round in the river, off Three-
Colt Stairs, Shadwell. • A watcrioan immediately conveyed it ashore,
and gave information to police constable Crawford, No. 253 K,
conveyed the earpse to the dead.house, Shatiwc.ll churchyard. The
decCated appears about nineteen or twenty years of age, and has lost the
ringers of his left hand. It is supposed he was drowned while bathing..
On Sunday ;light a determined act of suicide was
commuted h, Gravesend, by a gentleman, named James Forrester
Gregg, a foreigner by birth, lodging in a boardinghouse at the Wciit.
end of the town, by shouting Liniself
.with a pistol. The unfOrionate
man blew his brains out. A note was found on a tile in his room,
sddres.ed to person in London, nviestin4 that information might be
nt She party who would bury him,

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On Friday morning, between nine and ton o'clock,
a young man Donkin, a painter, while at work on a ladder, in
Mark-141;Q, opposite the Corn Exchange, unfortunately missed his fact.
ifig and fell upon his back, on a piece of wood On being picked up
and examined, it Was asceitainoil that ho had three of his ribs broken,
and severely injured the s,p,kno of his hack. He was removed on a shut:
ter to St, P.Q1.14W4 UO,P,itai4 in a rate of great agony,