The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-21 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER.

A YOUNG MAN KILLED 1W HIS GRANDFATHEIt•
Yesterday morning Mr. William llorwood, re-
riding in Union-street, Shadwell, and who is in his 70th year,
was !nought before Captain RICIIIIELL, at the Thames Police
Office, charged with the murder of his grandson George Ear.
ton, who was 25 years of age. The principal evidence was the
prisoner's housekeeper, Ann Hill, who stated that the deceased
had received a licence from the prisoner to take his meals at his
house when and at such times as he pleased ; ha came to the
prisoner's house on Wednesday evening, and asked for some
meat; I cut some for him, which he objected to ; while I was
remonstrating with him on his objection, the prisoner entered ;
decayed again renewed his objections to the meat, and the pri-'
Boner said, you must have it fairly cut off; I said I had cut it
NO, and the prisoner then told the deceased " that if he did not
like it he must walk out and not come there again." The de-
ceased then made use of the most infamous language and said,
" money he wanted, and money he would hale," and lancing
himself in a fighting attitude, called his grandfather a most
horrid name, said he would have his life, and then struck him
a blow. The prisoner in return struck him with a dagger.
The Magistrate asked why Mr. Horwood had armed himself
with a dagger ?—Witnes4—He used to keep it about him for
these some months past, in order to protect himself, as the de-
ceased, who was a very bad character, threatened that he wont.'
murder him, or get some of his companions to do so. After
the deceased was stabbed, he staggered from the back parlour,
where the blow was given, to the front door, on which he sup-
ported himself. I went up and asked what was the
Matter with him ? He made no reply, but groaned heavily,
and instantly tell to the ground. He never spoke from the
time he received the fatal wound. I called to the prisoner to
procure some assistance, and he went into the street, and in a
few minutes returned with a watchman, who, with an officer,
took him into custody. The dagger was here produced ; it
appeared of foreign manufacture; the blade, which was about
eighteen inches long, and of a peculiar form, was so covered
with blood, that the material of which it was composed was
scarcely perceptible. The witness at once identified it. The
wretched prisoner on its production closed his eyes and shud-
dered.

Several other witnesses were examined : some of them proved
having met the prisoner in the street, after the occurrence. He
was inquiring for an officer, and intended to give himself up to
justice. Another proved that he saw the deceased lying in the
passage, and the prisoner leaning over him. Ile said, " I have
done the deed ; I have murdered him with a dagger." He
also said that the deceased had been quarrelling with him, and
had abused him from RatclifFe Crosq to his house.
The Surgeon who examired the body, proves Oat such an
instrument as the dagger produced tied inflicted the wound
which was in the deceased's left side, between fir : fourth and
fifth ribs.—The prisoner was then remanded until this day,
and, in the mean time, the Coroner's Inquest will be held.—
It appears that the deceased was respectably connected, but,
having formed an acquaintance with bad characters, he was
deserted hy all his relations, except his grandfather, and who
unfortunately has occasioned his death.

We wish that the laws relating to suicide were
altered. There is, in fact, little wisdom in legislating on such
a subject at all ; for a man who is determined to put himself
out of the world, will not care much for its ordinances. No
laws can of course reach such a is se, and we think it is a mere
mockery to have a Jury empannelled, so swear, that a man who
has ',dined himself was mad. Would it not be better to save
all this nonsense, and let the only question to be inquired
into be, how the person on whom the inquest is held
died, and not to ask any questions as to the motives of his death.
At present the complaint made in Hamlet by the Gravedigger,
thdt favour is shown to the rich in the important privilege of
killing themselves is so true, that any respectable person may
cut his throat, without any fear of, elo de se being pronounced
against him ; and we cannot conceive any class of people whom
the existence of such a power can either gratify or frighten.—
( New Times.)

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AT PORTPATRICR.—
We have been informed by the guard of the Galloway mail,
that on Thursday, the 13th inst., between five and six o'clock
in the evening, a bullock boat, having on board eight men, one
woman, and a child, besides z number of cattle, which was on
its passage- from Donaghadee to l'ortpaWck, went suddenly
down, when within about a mile and a half of the latter place,
and carried to the bottom every creature within her. As she
thus vanished like the " baseless fabric of a vision," without
leaving a single " wreck behind," nothing as yet has been
learnt of her name, or that of her owner, or how the accident
occurred.—( Dumfrite Courier.)

THE ORPHAN FAMILY OF THE I,A'E CAPTAIN
JAMES MACKAY.

ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.
rr lIE DIRECTORS of the ASSOCIATION
Is for ASSISTING in WORKING MINES in MEXI-
CO, and other parts of SPANISH AMERICA, having made
a CALL of FIVE POUNDS on. each of the SHARES of
the ASSOCIATION, under the powers-vested in them by the
DEED, the Proprietors are requested to pay the same on the
amount of their-respective Shares to Messrs. BARCLAY,
TRITTON, BEVAN, and Co. Lombard-street, on or be.
fore the 24th day of November next.

JOSEPII LOWE, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, Oct. 21, 1825.