The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-24 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH

A most atrocious murder was etimmitted yester-
day aft,ernoon,,aboat 4 o'clock, in the most daring
and diabolical Manner that it is possible to de-
scribe; ithe 'particulars are briefly as tollow.:
A ‘itaterman tw.med George Brothers was plied by
three persons em to take them, to ityde, in the" Isle
of Wight, to which he agreed, and sei sail for
that purpose; but before they. had started more
than five minutes, a mae was observed_ in the
boat, and tin Waterman thrown overboard ; he
was, almost immediately picked up, covered with
stabs and cuts, and quite dead. An alarm being
given, the wherry was 'followed by a .boat from
his Majesty's ship Centaur, and several other
boats. The Lieutenant of. the Centaur's boat,
finding they scarcely gained on the wherry, put
two men into each of two other Ivherries, which
•werc also in chaSe, conceiving them most likely to
come up with the wherry, and the result proved
he was perfectly correct ; for, just at sun-set,.
they run the Wherry. alongside, though going
at the rate of ten miles an hour, and secured the
three men, but not till after they had made a des-
perate -resistatice. They were landed this day,
amidst the execrations of an almost ungovernable
populace, and examined at the Town Hall, when
they acknOwledged themselves to be prisoners of
war, and to have escaped from Porton prison, at
two o'olock in the afternoon. It appears that
they had been enabled, from selling toys, in pur-
chase entire new eloaths; by which they eluded the
gnards at the gate, Brothers has left a wife and
tiro children, and the -shock of his tunimely and
has occasioned her to give a premature birth to a
third.
A salesman, named VEAL was shot by .a Marine
on duty on board his Majesty's ship Centaur, yes,
terday, whilst laying alongside. The hall passed
through his arm and thigh. is: inn •very.dan-
gerouS state. The marine is committed to prison.

The Adjutant-General, accompanied by his
Aid-de-Camp, left Camden House, Kensington,
yesterdayouirning,byorder of the Commander-in-
Chief, to inspect all th'e., flos'pitals round the
coast, with directions to report to his Royal
ness 'the deficiencies that may exist, and to remedy'
any initnediate, consequence arising from the
present system of conducting that department.
IPswi9tt:-,---Ou the motion of 'lout.' ROUND,
Esq. one of the Representatives in Parliament for
this Borough, the Thanks of the Court were ma-
nintontily 'voted to the gallant Captain P. 11. V.
Bnottr, of the Royal Navy, in commemoration of
the heroic.achieVenicnt of that distinguished Of-
fieer, when irs command of his Majesty's ship
.‘Oanyon, all the Ist of June last, lie engfiged aud
captured the .Anierican frigate Chesapeake. To
the freOotu of the Corfu-n-46ga Captain pito Kr.; is
already entitled by haiii.•
List Satorday se'naight the East Bourne fisher-
men brotightorriliore at that place, a blue carni-,
.vcrous shurk,which they hod. tliken in their nets the
preveding It• was judged to weigh about
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as ac emit;lt'et
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on Thursday Inst, at AshfOrd, in Rent, as r.
JA tit:s AYRES, on a shooting ,excursion wits get-
ting over a hedge, his piece .unfurtunately dis-
charged, and'indged the contents in his side. We.
are sorry to add, faint hopes arc: entaineil of his re 7
covcry.