The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-01 00:00:00

CUTTING AND MAIMING.

Wm. Brook: stood capitally indicted, under Lord Ellenbo-
rough's Act, with haring., on the 23d of April, at Stockport, in
this county, inflicted, with a certain sharp instrument, on the
body of 3largaret Rhodes, divers writinds.
From the statement of the .ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on t'-e
part of the Crown it appeared that the wounds (four in num-
ber) had been inflicted by a pen-knife, at the door of her house,
when the prisoner made use of the following words:—" Peggy
Rhodes, come out, d—n thee, turn out, thou w—e and thief
my name is Brooks, and I am come to seek revenge;" and
then inflicted the wounds as described by the witnesses for the
prosecution.

Mr. D. G. JONES, on the part of the prisoner, endeavoured.
to show that the prosecutrix first gave the provocation, by
striking the prisoner over the side of his head with a patten ;
that she used several words of a provoking nature, and that she
called him a rogue and a thief.

Mr. Lacey, the surgeon, described the nature or the wounds,
but said none of them were of a dangerous kind.
After several witnesses had been examined on the part of the
prosecution, and on the part of the prisoner, his Lordship sum-
med up, and the .Jury found the prisoner " Guilty of doing
some grievous and bodily harm."—Death.
Clings' JuSTICE—Put the prisoner back. I shall not pass
sentence now. I can give him very little hopes.

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.-011 Monday night a
daring outrage was committed in the house of Mr. Ellerbuck,
of Castle-street, Finsbury-square. Mr. Ellerbuck and in-
mates were all from home during the evening, when about
eleven o'clock he returned alone, and let himself in with a
latch-key, but had scarcely entered the house when he was
attacked by three men, who beat him unmercifully, and .one
of the ruffians making a snatch at watch, the chain broke,
leaving two seals in his hand. The robbers having secured Mr.
Ellerbuck, locked him into a lower room, while they proseeded
up stairs to ransack the house. Finding an iron chest in an
upper room, they carried it to another part of the house to break
it open, but after being sometime thus engaged, they made a
precipitate retreat, alarmed, it is supposed, by some noise
in the lower part of the house. Mr. laerbuck, in his struggle
with the robbers, received a severe cut on the head, and
was otherwise severely injured. Information of the out..
rage was immediately given, at the Police-office, Wor-
ship-street, and Attfield, Armstrong, and Eagles, three of
the officers, examined the premises, and found a crow-bar,
. with which the robbers had attempted to open the iron chest,
and a bludgeon covered with blood, the instrument with which
Mr. Ellerbuck had been wounded. The only articles carried
off were the two seals and a dressing-case. No trace of the
robbers has as yet been discovered.

A late Number of the Brussels Oracle says—
Two women of Strasburgh, a mother and dough-
ter, disappeared last week. A letter was found
in the apartment they had quitted, which stated,
that it was the intention of the mother to destroy
herself, and that the daughter had exclaimed,
" Yes, mother, I will follow thee into the other
world." Several days elapsed without any tid-
ings being had what had become of them. On
Thursday last, however, the sluiceman at the
mill at Dinsen found the body of the mother in
the mill-dam ; and on searching further the corpse
of the unfortunate daughter was also found.—
Family-quarrels, it appeared, had occasioned this
double suicide,

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THE 71ONDON JOURNALS.

DA I Lei
.Extract• from the Morning Papers, Sept. 1, 1825.

[MORNING POST.]
We received last. night, by Express, French
Papers to the 30th ult.. and the 'Eft/11C of Tues-
day. It will be seen by our extracts in a pre-
ceding Column that the intelligence from Greece
is more .i.heering than could have been antici-
pated erein the nature of the preceding accounts.
Alissolonglii, it appears, had sustained and re-
pelled three assaults, and, inflicted so severe a
less on the besiegers in the last, in which they
penetrated beyond the first entrenchment, but
could not gain the second, that Redschid-Pacha
had taken up a position at a respectful distance
frOrn the place. It is said, besides, that the Greek-
!fleet, after having landed 18,000 men in the
Morea from- the islands, had raised the sea
blockade of Missolono%hi, and provisioned that
fortress for a year. Leer accounts given in the
Quotirlicnne from Austrian Captains, though they
do not mention the latter fact, state that up to
the sth of August Missolonglii had not surrender-
ed, and thus infeirentially confirm it. The events
in the Nlorea also seem to have assumed an
equally favourable character. Demetrius Ypsi-
lanti, after repulsing Ibrahim Pacha, as we al-
ready knew he did, at the. Mills, is .repre-
sented as having so skilfully manaruvred as to
have drawn him away from Tripolizza, and taken
that place, where a garrison of 1000, or accord-
ing to other accounts,of 2000 men had been left.l
On learning this the Egyptian hastily returned,
but he found Colocotroni and Ypsilanti united,
and being unable to force his way back, had no
other chance than to move a third time upon Na-
poli di Romania, and endeavour to carry that
city by a coup de main, in order to restore' his
communications with the sea. This is.probably
s hat is termed in letters from Trieste, dated the
15th Ult., the siege of Napoli. That his attempt
will fail, now that his emissaries within the place
have. been discovered and put to death, and he
has no Imlte chance of obtaining it through trea-
chery, may be confidently anticipated, as Napoli
di Rocsania is the best .fortified place in all
Greece. If it. be true, and we sincerely hope it
is, that the isles have sent a reinforcement of
18,000 men to the Alereotes, and that the Egyp.
tian army has been reduced to between five and
six thousand, we may still have the gratification
of knowing that notwithstanding the help of Au-
stria, the cause-of despotism and desolation has
failed, and that of national independence and
Christianity triumphed: The information re-
specting, the events in Spain is contradictory.—
The Etoile• .denies-every Thing which it fears
may tend to lower the funds ; but the other
papers are less Aender, and publish whatever
reaches theni Thus the JO u;•nul des Debuts
maintains that dessieres, who • has declared him-
self Commander in Chief of.- the " Army for
the liberation. off the King," has neither been
abandoned by any of his men, nor- put to
flight, but has' taken post near Guadalaxara,
where " reinforced, not only by the Royal
Volunteers of the whole province who crowd
to his standard;-but by some troops of the line,
he shows a firm countenance, and seems disposed
to repel force- by 'forte." The same Paper, in
order to prove that this Chief, is at the head of a
powerful party, states that the troops sent against
him 'had been already increased to 4000 men with
• six pieces of cannon, and were to receive fresh
augmentation. In 'addition- to this, the Quoti-
dienne asserts that an extraordinary courier had
arrived with inteltja°ence that 'the regiments al-
ready assembled in Galicia for the expedition to
Havannah, had mutinied and .were in open in-
surrection. There may be 'some exaggeration in
this, but it is evident that on all sides the storm
is breaking upon Spain, and that it has yet to go
through' the calamities. of a revolution before it
can hope to attain peace and a settled Go-
vernment.

[n:wrlsa. pncss.]
In the Paris Papers•which we received yes•
terday we have no fresh intelligence from Spain

The Etoile denies that any authentic. news, later
than what has appeared in its columns, has ar-
rived from Madrid. Reports had been circulat-
ed that the infant Don Carlos was under arrest,
and that the troops sent against the rebel Bes-
sieres had declared for him. These rumours
were published in correspondence from the
Spanish capital, .under the date of the 18th of
August, but they Were certainly incorrect, as ac-
counts had been received from Madrid, by tele-
graph, to the 22d, and by courier to the 62 Ot h. II
is said, that Bessieres was well supplied with
money by the Apostolic Junta and the Monks
His insurrection is Considered, in the Peninsula,
as an event of much greater importance titan
the French Ministerial Journals are willing to
admit. Spain was filled with reports, none of
which, under present circumstances, deserve
the least consideration. We shall shortly see by
the evidence of facts, what is the strength of the
ultra malcontents-. We are afraid that it is much
grafter than it ought to be.; but the French Go-
vernment will hardly permit them to succeed
with their treasonable plot for the dethronement
of their Sovereign. The late alleged conspiracy
of the Carbonari, at Rome, turns out..to have
beet' of no serious character. The parties con-
cerned N% ere principally " idlers or libertines,
without consideration or resources:" It was ex-
pected 'that they would be discharged with very
mild punishments. The Neapolitan amnesty is
deferred'till the King's fete, or Saint's day, when
it 13 reported all the persons in exile, on account
of 'their political opinions,' will be recalled. We
trUA it 'may be"so; the period was never more
faVouribte. for acts of cleMency of this nature.
The---fie'aisi,:frota Greece still uncertain.—
.According to some -accounts the Turks had
another 'assault -upon Missoloughi, and
itatt"i)o4l'repUlsed. In this third attempt to
gain' possessiori of 'the fortress, the troops of the
SerAkier; R.Mschid Pacha, ore said to have
pea'sied the 'first- entrenchment, but in endeavour-
ing to paSs the second, were driven back with
the loss of 700 Men. Another report was, that
the Greeks, after having, in despair, we suppose,