The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-13 00:00:00

LIEUT. CRELLLV AND HIS MARE.

It will be recolleded that a charge was lately
made against an Officer for riding his mare from the
Race Ground, at York, to the Saddle Inn, at Leeds,
a distance of. upwards of 23 t»ils, 111 311 hour and
twenty. minutes, iocluditig .the time taken for a bait.
on the road; in consequence of which the
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languished for a few days in extreme- torture, and
then died. The staterrienthich first appeared in
the Leeds liercury; produced the following expla-,
.nation from Lieutenant

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS INTELLIGENCER.
SlR—Through the medium of Paper, I think
it necesS'ary; dts - ()dicer of the Sixth Dragoo'n
Guards (as which 1 am brought before the public
by the. Editor of the.Leed,t Mercury) to. contradiA a
paragraph which appeared in h.s P,tper of this day
I teal nu hesitation in declatio'g that the whole of it
is tape and unfounded in every particular; iffid from
=the manlier in which I Live been reprelented by that
Editor, have no-doubt in my
„Mind that his inten-
tions towards ate were illiberal and, malitious,' and
meant to stigthattze my clLtra- L!:- as an officer, by
itnputing to me an act, of exces,ie cruelty, which),
on my lioriOur, as an: oftki r and a .gentlenian,:l did
not commit. It is tuniectss,Jy at
„present to-state
any pa_ ticul.us on the -subject, being determined to
make an evanple of that Editor, ai far as the laws
of my country will

T. C. CIS ELLIN,
Licut. 6,e1 (,thirds.

Leek!), Sept. 2,, In 9.

To this a reyfication has .been since made by' the
EditOr of the Mercury. -
To Lieut.CRELLIN, of the 6th Dragoon Guards. ,
Sits,-Iti a letter, hearing your sighature, inserted
in the Leeds Intelligencer ut this Week, you have
thought tit; to con traoto a paragraph in the last Met..
cury, rAtting to you and your h3rse, and very posi-
tively to declare: that'" the whole of that paragraph
is false and unfounded in every particular." The
only important particulars in that paragraph
.are
these.:—

The iine• in which you rode the horse from the
race ground 'at York to Lfeds Saturday,—the ex..
treme agony the animal you rode. subseciuently en-
dured—and us consequent death on the. Tuesday
following. Allow me 10 ask if you mean to assert
on " your honour as,an Officer anda
Ist. That you did not yourself declare, that you
rode the mare from the Race: Ground at York to
Leeds, in an hour and to minutes, including the
time taken for a bait on the road,?,

(4d. Dr,Nyou asier,t upon your honour, that the
mare did exhibit symptoms of., extreme agony
until 'Tuesday night ? • . ,
3d. Do you mean to pledge your wot d that the
mare is not dead ?

you can spew that these, the leading particulars
in the paragraph alluded to, arc false, I shall, most
gladly, contribute whatever lie, in my power to abate
that feeling of indignation wl4ll had been excited in;
the public mind, by a view of ihe poor animal,long
before the observation lo my Paper of last Saturday

made its appearance. •
You impute to me a malicious motive tOwards
you. This I.positively
.disclaim. I neither knew
your person -nor your ,name . before your expiring
horse- ateraCted ray notice;• and for the character of
a British Officer, ow such, no petsoh can 1)4,5 a
Uglier reg*ard than wyselt, haying the honour. to rank'
many of theta amongst my particular friends, In
makin“ .the insertion alluded to, therefore, - hurati—
nity and a sense of public duty, those motives *which
only a fortnight before induced me to censure, in
strong terms, two men .who had,tnanned.(not kided)
one, of your regimental .horses, .alone actuated my
conclutt.
...Convinced, as everY'unprejtichci.4 mind
must be, of theTurity of my motive I can coati-
.dently rest the legal consequences of that insertion
on the tar-famed liberty Of the English _press ; and as
to your threats, be assured, they have only thatshaie
'Of my regard which they -merit.

• EDITOR.

AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—Mr;. R-6, a Gentle-
man who :was Considered in possession of an icicle-.
pendent fortune, and who was between 50 and 60
years of age, was found dead, in a shacking man-
gled state, on Monday mornintl in the Thames,.
above Sunbury.. Report says, this unfortunate man,
who had spent his life in rberc,iptile speculation,,
had imbibed iipropensity for play, and he lost three
very considerable SUMS of money within the last
fortnight; which had brought on a despondency,
bordering on, insanity. • He took apartments in the
neighbourhnod of Weybridge three weeks ago; and.
he left hiS habitation on Thursday mmniog last, and
Was not seen after. It was Strougiy suspeCted by his
sister, a maiden lady who lived with him, that he
had destroyed himself, .by his tnanti:tr of •addreising
her on the preceding evening: From the nature of
the wound,:; it was manitest that he had :inflicted
them Witt his own hands ; and so determined was
lie in the rash pursuit, that hehad,lacten 'his peck is
with stones, " Tho body was left lora Coroners In-
quest yesterday, and.the verdict maybe auticipat,!d.

SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, about 4. o'clock,
Mr. Wilkinson, in Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, cut
his throat, bUt not effe6toally. He attempted to
bang himself in his
,garters, to expedite his dissold-,
tion, (but was unable AO do it from-
.loss of blood,
WhiCh he fastened across his mouth insfead of his
neck. In this State he was -discovered. He lan-
guished until yesterday morning, mid remains for a
Codoner's 16quest:.

Suointkr DeATH.-4.Ur-Frithy.morning an elderly
man, servant to Mr. fiolland, of the War-Orffee,
-dropped down -suddenly on Westminster Bridge.—
Tie was conveyed in a senseless state to Mr. Pen-
lingtnn, apothecary, at the foot'of the bridge, where
every ea'ort was Made to, restore animation, but
without effe&.-
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