The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-23 00:00:00

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the ftiriotts and sanguinary, disposition of this mis
,creaut were adduced, and, hi particular, Ow lie had
vowed to ainrder Miss Anne Boreliain and Elizabeth
-Harris.

TWO attempts had been made, in the course of the
Winter, to break open and rob the hOuse ~.of Mr.
Boreham, which led to suspicion that Simmons was
conneaed With a gang of accomplices : but when he
was brotight before the Coroner's Jury, covered with
blood,. and closely interrogated, he denied all con-
nexion with accomplices, expressed sorrow for what
he had done, and said he had no previons intention
to murder Mrs. Hurtitn'erstone, or any of Mr. Bor-
ham's family; his sole design was against Elizabeth
Harris.
He was committed to Hertford Gaol to abide his
trial; and yesterday; on being' interrogated by the
clergyman of the place, he persisted in denying his
previous intention to murder Mrs. 'HunitnerstOne, or
any of Mr. Boreham's faMily ; but he said, that
after he hadstabbed those whom he had murdered,
and 'was in pursuit of Elizabeth Harris, he 'heard
Something, as it were, flutter behind him, and 'fol-
low hiu in his pursuit ; and when he overtook her,
he felt himself unable to strike as:he intended, and
the knife fell from his hand. •

The dead bodies remain at Mr. Bore Lam's until
the day of interment.

the fbllowing Charmer of the Neapolitans is
given by Mr. SEIVIP.i, a liberal and intelligent
Traveller.

"The Italians area singular mixture of eagerness
and cuening,.of.milaness and' violence, of eupeniti-
Lion and of irreligion. They are vehement in their
gestures on trivial occasions ; but at the very time
they appear absorbed in the violence of passion, they
are Rill of duplicity, and crow cool in a moment if
thy '4ee any adVantage in doing so. They aired to
speak with great mildness and appearance:of regard
.even to an absolute stranger, and yet suddenly break
out into violent fitsof passion. They will talk rightly
of the church, and turn their priests into ridicule ;
but after tittering an irregular jest, a secret awe seems
to drive them into the altar,-where they kneel and re-
ceive the sacrament from the very hands which they
have ridiculed. No people that I have ever yet seen
deScends so low in order to excite compassion. If
they gain their objed by any means, they are satis-
fied, and in order to effect this, fawn upon strangers
in a manner that quickly. becomes tedious and soon
:disgusting. They fed with greater accuracy than
they reason, and are more apt to mislead themselves
when they
.take time to deliberate than when they
4.1 from the impulse of the moment. The miltlness
of their climate inspires them with cheerfulness, and
they give t bernselveS up with ardour to every plea-
sure, even the most. trifling;. yet their looks ate cum-
posed, and, even grave,: and their walk has nothing
in it which indicates levity.
" In the observance •of
.The matrimonial engage-
ments no people can be More lax, nor is there any
country, where jealousy is so little known, nor, in-
deed, where it would be so very useless. When in-
stances.Of.private rebuke or restraint are strengthen-
ed by a considerable decency of getter?' .manners,
that rebUke or restraint may be of some avail. But
*hat benefit can arise from it when the whole mass
isi.porrupted, when the ottage of the peas;is con-
taminated, e inated, and when, most flagrant in . ices of
.i
disregard to feneile ' nour are to be s4klit for
among the nobility and upon the throne ltalian
jeatousy scarcely now C;Xists,.exeePt upon the stage
or in'romances. Thi4 however, is not the Case with
lovers previous to. marriage. Then the parties are
strictly tenacious of thdir rights, and the slightest
symptoms of indifference or infidelity are Often.pti-
nished in .a terrible manner.

" I could notbut notice, both in Spain and Italy,
tilt! avidity with which, at the theatres, the male
part of the audience seized, every, expressitin which
alluded disrespetilfully, to wOmen. Such passages
Were uniformly received with unmanly'laughter and
applause, as if it, was.a great triumph obtained 4Q ver
their female friends. The Ladies in both- countries
join in ,the laugh ;: but they know how to take their
revenge." -

At Wootifoot, in the parish of Lockruton, on the
night of The Bth inst. part of a Cottage occupied by
an old woman (the other extremity by a weaver),
tell' in, but fortunately the posts of the bed bore up
the roof insuen a manner as to-preserve her unbUrt.
The other .occupant, alarinpd by the crash, rose
front his bed, and was hastening- to the door, when
the roof of his part of the cottage also fell in, but
providentially, just as he had passed his loom 3, by
,which the root was partly upholder). His bed, and
every article of furniture in the cottage Were dashed
n) pieces. They were both dug Out of the ruins un-
hurt, by Ate neighbours.
A shocking accident happened yesterday in Port-
iand-street, which was-occasiooed by the neglect of
the driver of a coal wagon, who was taken into
custody. A Mrs, Saanderson, who resides in the
Hanrpstead-road, accompanied by a young Lady and
a little girl, were passing tOwards Oxford-street, in
a chariot, when a 'part of the way was impeded by
a timber carriage which bad stopped„ and at the
same time a coal waggon was approaching without
a driver. The driver of the chariot put
_his horses
on, the speed, to clear himself.- from the waggon,
when the wheel-horse of the latter made a sudden
start, and ran the waggon with such force against
the chariot, as to overturn it with the utmost via.'
The child liad'• its arrns out' of the chariot,
window, and the-body of the chariot -fell 'on one Of
them, which shatterett the. bones -to splinters, and
bruised her body dreadfully. Mrs. S. and the other
Lady escaped with ~several bruises. The life of the
child is,despaired

An Inquisition was taken yesterday, at 'a public-
house at Newington, on. the body of a periott who
put a perioil to his existence on the preceding
l'he deceased, who .s a man of respe6iole4pear-
atice; was a passenger it) a stage coach,
,aifd whilst
riding, with two other persons, he drew a pistpl from
his pocket, and discharged its contents into his bead.
'There was no evidence to prove who. the deceased
was,- but he was supposed to be a ibreigner,,.froin
ome,documents in Ins pocket-book. lit had net
spoken 'to any of the passengers, and he appeared
it a de.e6ted state. VerdiEt-;-insaniiy. .