The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, SATURDAY, SEPT. 20.—The Rev. J. B. Gra-
ham to the Vicarage of Holy Trinity,,York ; patron, the Lord
Chancellor.

The Rev. S. Redhead to the Vicarage of Calverley, York-
shire.

The Rev. M. Chester to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Helen's
Auckland, Durham.—lt is said the Bishop of Down will be the
new Bishop of Clogher—the Dean of St. Patrick to have the
See of Down—lion. and Rev. Mr. Pomeroy to take the vacant
Deanry, and Mr. Plunkett's son the parish of St. Anne, Dublin.

An exquisite of the first water, at Brighton,
was last week applied to, by an urchin on the Steyne, to read
for him the inscription on the collar of a stray dog which he
had found, in order that he might get something by restoring
it to its owner. illorg good-natured than many of his class, he
complied, and read (tolerably well considering) the following
lines:—

Steal me not ! myself and collar
Both are barely worth a dollar ;
Puppies should befriend each other : •
See me home, then, dearest brother !
He put down the dog, and departed in high dudgeon.
After BYRoN's engagement in the West Indies,
there was a great clamour about the badness of the ammu-
nition. Soon after this Mr. Fox had a duel with Mr. Adam ;
on receiving that Gentleman's • ball, and finding it had made
but little impression, he exclaimed—" E'gad, Adam, it had
been all over with me, if you had not charged with Government
Powder."

AFFRAY AT CIIIPPENHAM.

[FROM THE DEVIZES GAZETTE.I
Further Particulars of the Coroner's Inquest.

After a most laborious investigation, occupying
a'whold week; from ten in the morning until ten, eleven, and
sometimes twelve at night, the Coroner, on Sunday last, pro-
ceeded to sum up ;, and after deliberately reading the whole of ,
the voluminous evidence that had been delivered, and corn-'1
me.nting on the particular facts as he went on, the Jury retired
fornearly two hours, and then delivered their verdict, as re-
corde& in our Paper of Thursday, the 19th instant.
Frotii the whole of the' evidence adduced, it appears, that
whatever bickerings-there might previously have been between li
a few of the inhabitants of Chippenham, and some of the Lang-
ley PeOple on the night in question, the Chippenham party was-
wholly blameless. ' the attack was deliberately premeditated,
and is marked 'throughnut with an atrocity—a brutality—that
we should scarcely suppose the most hardened wretch in England
capable of; but.liow much less could we conceive that men,
holding the respectable rank of British Yeomen, could plan
and engage in Such Scenes ? Yet ire have it in eyidence, that Mr.
Knight and Mr. Matthews, two respectable farmers of Langley,
were at the Cannon public-house some hours previous to the
commencement of the affray ; and that Matthews advised the
witness (who was a girl) to go home, as a row was to take place
that evening—a proof of its being
.previously planned. Mr.
Knight, it was sworn by another witness, afterwards knocked
down ound, the Carrier, twice, without the smallest provoca-
tion. The person 'of Knight was positively sworn to by the
witness,. who observed when she saw him in custody on the
Sunday morning; "that that was the man who struck Pound ;
she (the witness) knew him by a mark in his face, and should
have known hint among a-thousand." The same witness swore
that she saw three other men go up to the two young Daiinsells,
knock' them down, and afterwards throw them on a dung-heap.
She further deposed that she heard a whistle four or five times;
that she assisted poor Reynolds when he was brought home ;
that he never spoke, but uttered the most dismal groans. .
The following, sworn to by two witnesses, excels in cowardice
any thing we ever heard :—A man who appeared not; to take
the least part in the row, was standing near, the turnpike-gate,
when one 'of the Langley gang took up a large piece of
road-dirt, and threw at him, which knocked him down; the
popr fellow, after recovering himself a little, endeavoured to
rise, When another came up and struck him several times with
a large stick ; a third crying out, " D—n him, George, give
him a good one." When the wretch who was using his stick
so unmercifully was nearly tired, a fourth did what execution
he could with his fists. At last being fully satiated, and little-
remaining to be done.towards taking the poor man's life, one of
them vociferated—" Let him alone now, I think he has had•
enough of it."
A poor woman, hearing that her brother was out when the
cries of " murder proceeded from all parts, went to seek him,
but was obliged herself to take shelter in a ditch; while there,
she heard two men pass, swearing that they would murder the
first they met with. Shortly after she crept out, and found poor
Reynolds (who it is likely these wretches first came in contact
witii) lying on a heap of stones without a hat; the witness helped
him up, but lie could not stand. His only words were—" I
shall never live to get home."
From:the moment that Mr. Moore was carried home so dread-
fully beaten, which occurred soon after poor Hull was called
from his bed, it appears to have been the determination of the
latter either to take the partiesinto custody, or by some means.
to identify them, so that they might be delivered up to the of-
fended laws of their country, and (as he thought) the death ,
of his murdered townsman avenged. Though without a stick or
any other weapon, and when all his companions had retreated
through feat of their lives, he alone stood forward and volun-
teered his
.services to the constable. G° Come," he said, " lay
hold of my arm, and we will take the whole into custody." The
constable foresaw the danger, and went home. Hull remained,
and was brutally murdered !
The man who keeps the turnpike-gate near the Little
George? about seven o'clock on the Saturday evening, saw six
or seven men near the gate with large sticks in their hands ; he
inquired what they were about, when they called him a
old rascal, and told him to get out of the way.
It was also sworn that a young man of Kington Langley, on.,
the Sunday morning, requested his mother to wash the blood
from his stick, which she endeavoured to do, but could not get
it off; that it was afterwards chopped off and burnt, and that
there was lead in the middle of it ; that every thing ►had been
prepared for the slaughter, and that the party was called toge-
ther by a whistle.
Since Gorge Thomas has been in custody, he has declared
that he saw Mr. Hull knocked down by one of the prisoners
(mentioning his name), and that another, when he was down,
gave him two or three hard blows with a stick.
Two servants of Mr. Matthews swore that their master was
at home by half-past twelve by their clock, which was half an
hour faster than the Chippenham, and that he did not appear
warm or heated.
The Magistrates had sat daily at the White Hart, since our
last, up to Tuesday, when they adjonrned until to-day. Mr.
Methuen has praiseworthily given his assistance, and each
exerts himself to the utmost for the pnrpcse of bringing the whole
of the murderers to justice. Mountjoy, who had absconded
on Sunday the dth instant, has surrendered himself to Mr.
Coleman. James 'Tanner, jun. one of the ten against whom a
verdict of Wilfid Murder has been returned, has not yet been
apprehended ; the others have been committed by the Coroner
to Fisherton gaol. ,

The ground lately occupied at Privy Gardens
by the mansion of the Duke of RICHMOND, being totally clear,
a terrace on a very grand scale is forming ; it will be somewhat
similar to Whitehall-place.
The improvements and alterations at Saint
James's Palace are proceeding rapidly. The rooms leading
to the entrance of the drawing-room have been completely re-
paired, so as to form their original appearance. The entrance
by the German Chapel and Priory is greatly widened, suf-
ficient for a carriage to pass through. The inconvenience owing
to there having only been one staircase to the entrance of the
grand rooms is remedied by the erection of another. Greater
alterations were to be made, but it getting so far advanced in
the year, orders have been given to complete the present altera-
tions immediately.
A grand Mews is building at Pimlico. It com-
mences at the stables known by the name of the Duke of York's,
and will proceed considerably higher than the Riding House,
which is to come down. The termination of the new Mews
will be very close to the Palace at Pimlico. A great space of
i
the garden s required for it.
The Grand Parade exhibited this day a very
melancholy picture of the state of the country—it was literally
covered with cattle, distrained for rent.—Sheep were sold so
low as 40s. per dozen—Cows from 50s. to 41. each.—(Cori:
Mercantile Chronick, Sept. 16.)
Decapitation by the Guillotine. :A gentleman
of intelligence and of literary attainments makes, in an ac-
count of his travels on the Continent, the following most sin-
gular remarks on an execution he witnessed, in which the
culprit was beheaded by the guillotine. It appears, says he,
to be the best of all possible modes of inflicting the punishment
of death ; combining the greatest impression on the spectator,
with the least possible suffering to the victim. It is so rapid,
that I should doubt whether there were any suffering; but
from the expression of the countenance, when the executioner
held up the head, I am inclined to believe, that sense and con-
sciousness may remain for a few seconds after the head is off:
—The eyes seemed to retain speculation for a moment or
two, and there was a look in the ghastly stare with which
they glared upon the crowd, Which implied, that the head
was aware of its ignominious situation. And, indeed, how-
ever extraordinary this may appear, there is nothing im-
probable in the supposition ; for, in all the injuries of the
spine, whereby a communication with the sensorium is,cut off,
it is the parts below the injury which are deprived of sensation,
while those above retain their sensibility. And so in the case
of decapitation, the nerves of the face and eyes may for a short
time continue to convey impressions to the brain, in spite of the
separation from the trunk.
GEORGE GARItICK, the brother of the cele-
brated Itoscius, was particularly attentive to
him ; and every night, on coming behind the
scenes, usually inquired, " has DAVID wanted
me ?" On its being asked how GEptIGE came to
die so soon after the demise of his distinguished
relative, it was answered, 46 DAVID wanted him."
DISINTERESTED LOVE.—A young lady telling
an old gentleman, that she was in love with his
estate, " Take it, Madam," said he, " and then
you will possess two-thirds of me, for my mind
you have already, and my whole being consisting
bat of mind, body, and estate." "0 ! then,"
rejoined the juvenile fair, " it would be very un-
reasonable, Sir, to rob you of all three. Pray
keep your body for yourself."
. It is an indisputable fact of a somewhat sin-
gular nature, that there are three families now
residing at Pimlico, in. the same street, and with-
in
the short space of about 20 yards, whose re-
, spectiye names are Black; White) and Grey.