The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-07 00:00:00

DUBLIN, OCT. 1.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN MOLTNTJOY-SQUARE.
A Murder has been discovered to have.. liven
committed on a poor woman, aged nearly sixty years, flamed
Catherine Kelly. She had been placed as care-taker of the
house in IVlountjoy.square, at the corner of Great Charier.-
street, next.. Summer-hill. She lived in the house alone,
and was seen alive on, Thursday. On Sunday morning, t e
watchman mentioned to • some persons in the neighbo
hood, that he believed the woman was "dead, as he saw' that
the shutters had not been closed ,during the night aa.usvai.
A young man entered the house by the parlour wiadpw
fronting Illountjoy-square, when he saw the unfortunate
Woman lying on the parlour , floor strangled. A handker-
chief with which the dreadful act had been committed.was
fastened tight about her neck. There is no clue to come at
even the motive for this horrible act. The house was Unfur-
nished anti no property of any kind in it ; and it is Wit pre_
liable that the house should be entered for the purpose of car-
rying away grates or chinineypieces, nothing of the 'kind
being stirred ; the window-shutters of the parjour Where' the
body lay were open. ~The handkerchief was in such .a position
as to render it impossible that she should have committed the
act herself. A cloak, and some of her bed-clotheS, were, it is
said, taken away. There is no rear passage to the house, anti
it is not known whether the unfortunate woman. was murdered
on Friday or Saturday night.. . • . „
IscairsT.—Yesterday, M.
Mr. M'Cartby, Coroner for the
County, held an inquest on the body of theunforhmatelethule.
--A.number of witnesses were examined, but little light was
thrown on the mysterious transaction. The deceased had been
a widow 18 years, and Possessed an excellent character ;' a sur-
mise has been. suggested by the circumstances of her death, and
the petty robbery committed. on the occasion, that the murder-
ers, in depriving her of life, might have been actuated by, a
wish to cut off the possessor of some vainable secret, or prevent
her appearance,as a witness on some cause— So silently was the
bloody deed performed, that not one single .witness was foun.d4
rho could bear the slightest testimony as to any.noise having
been heard in the house on any evening or'morning of the week.
The watchmen of the:vicinity were minutely examined, but
nothing iris elicited from their accounts. , ~ _
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The sister-in-law of the deceased was sworn.—she appealed
in great grief, but could, not depose to any material flict:—A.
medical gentleman attended, and opened the body.
The Jury,, after deliberating a long time, found " That,the
&Ceased had been murdered by some person Or persons at pre-
sent unknown." . .

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PREVENTIVE SERVICE 1N 711 E,
Th'e COminissioners of Inquiry into the Management of the
Revenue, finding that violence is frequently committed, and
that the ~officers';of excise are unequal to- the:l-discharge of
their duties without great persorial risk in,severul TlistriCoe
of the •lilighlands, have recommended the elP1410".1.1,1414 of
two cutters, having crews' of from' ilventy:-.0 _thirty men
each—one to he stationed• in the Beau!),
_Firth; ,an& t<te better
mar (Than :u dto procccd from station to station,-.by, the:Gale.,
(lonian Canal. The recornMentlation t'.4Commimstorierp.Aill
. be -sliortly carried into effei-t.--(E, I I'.)
• A Mr. F; titmcßvof Berlin, has o,,htallieri per
uais,,ion to ,estoblj;th, at Stockholm a manuinetory,if plaped
tiorsoip.mesN, military opirasses,..apdi tielthets the
,)King of t:iivecieti has ,;.•;ir:tetl him a loan of 5,000 do larsi )3:lOeS,
at 4 per rent., for six y,als, and entry free of duty (dr his ti,et:.
sits gad models. • • • . .
A very gmkt inund,atioa:.has, taken. Tr)a.-0 in
different parts of ,Wurternbcrg., Steitibein);,Fokthe,.Murt.t, It
attained'. half a foot in nAbie than
years, anti various parts of the town were covered-with severa
feet of water. Considerable damage had been sustained.

LE'll'Eß OF MR. W. T.WASHINGTOi

TO THE
GREEK GOVERNMENT.

VIENNA, SEPT. 42
-I.—Besides the protest which
was presented to the Greek Government at Na-
poli di Romania by Gen. ROCHE and Mr. War.
TowNsElen WASHINGTON, on occasion of the re-
solution, to seek the protection of England, Mr.
WASHINGTON addressed a letter to the Executive
Government to the following effect :-
46 NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, AUG. 1.
" GENTLEMEN—I was• informed last Friday,*
from several quarters, that a document, written
in Corfu, in the Italian' language, translated at
Hydra and Spezzia, had been received here in
Napoli di Romania, that two Members of the
Legislative Body, almost all the Members of the
Executive, and many of the Captains of the
Mores and Candia had signed it ; and that the
real object of this document is to apply to the
English Government for assistance against the'
Turks and Arabs, and to give up to that Govern-
ment the sovereignty of Greece. I have con-
sidered this step in the circumstances in which
the country is as quite unnecessary, and I have
besides considered it as an extraordinary viola-
tion of the rights and privileges belonging to any
member of the Greek Republic, which has been
committed by the individuals who signed the do-
cument. Under the actual circumstances I have
thought it my duty publicly to express my dis-
approbation of what had been done, and accord-
ingly I signed, together with General Roche,
Agent of the Greek Committee at Paris, a pro-
lest. At the urgent request of a number of the
Legislative Body, I now attempt to develope more
at length the motives which induced me to sign
that protest.

" Allow me, first, to express my ideas on the
question, ' What right had the members of the
Greek Government, or the Greek Government
itself to carry on this negociation with the Eng-
' As absolute Governments are in every
respect masters of their subjects and their terri-
tories, they may have a right to dispose, by sale
-.or gift, of a part of their subjects and their terri-
tory, as the Virginia planter sells or gives away
his slaves and his lands.
" But according to the notions that prevail
among us in America, a Government which pro-
ceeds from the people, and governs only by vir-
tue of a delegated authority, can have no powers
bu: such as are expressly given it by the people,
and where do we see that the right to place
Greece or a part of Greece under the sovereignty
of a foreign power, was ever given to the Pro.
visional Government of Greece by the Greek
Nation ? And what right had the privates and
the Captain, and the members of the Legislature
and.' FxProtivn tinklipg 5.1,-cetber_ to rion•-:---
mem ;er ot the reek •Republic of the advantage
which he possesses, and which he believes himself
to possess by virtae of his quality of member of
that Republic, except in the case that helms com-
mitted a crime ? And what is still more, what right
have they in any case whatever to compel a mem-
ber of the Greek Republic to become the subject
of a foreign power ? None whatever, they have
110 such right, and if it be the- object of the docu.
ment in question to subject Greece to the domi-
nion of England, whether it he like Malta, the
. lonian Islands, Gibraltar, or Canada, I maintain
that the persons • who have issued the document
have been guilty of an usurpation of power and
a violation of the rights of the Greek Nation,
which cannot be justified in the eyes of the world.
" A member of the Legislative Body has since
shewn me a document, and endeavoured to con-
vince me it contains nothing to affect the national
independence of the country ; that the Greeks
did not so understand it; and that the English
arid the whole world could not put such inter.
pretation from it.
" I remain in doubt upon the subject, for the
expressions in the document, which has been
shewn to true, seem to the to be extremely equi-
vocal; and besides, I place little confidence in
the probity of the English Government : it is a
Government ii.hich is accustomed, if it can but
attain its ends, to violate the laws of nations, and
the obligations which it has taken on itself.

" At the same time other interesting pestions
arise. First, In what manner will the English
Gmernment afford assistance to the Greeks ?
Witti going to war with the Porte, or by nego-
ciating a treaty of peace between the two parties ?
And has the English Commodore, who carried
on the negociation, received instructions on the
subject from his Government?

The negociatio:: is to rue covered with a veil,
which time will perhaps raise; till then, I
say, that if assistance only has been applied
for, there is no objection to be made; but if
the affair is to end in the national indepen-
dence of Greece, this is an eve►►t which I shall
deplore and I consider it as my duty to declare
to the whole world, my disapprobation of all
measures that may have such a tendency ; and
think I may take upon myself the responsibility
of expressing to the Greeks, with respect to
such measures, the regret and the disapprobation
of my nation.

" I had hoped, Gentlemen, to enter into the
military service of the Greek Government, arid
to employ my military talents for the cause of
Greece, of liberty, and of civilization. But if
Greece is to become a province of Great Britain,
or of any other Foreign Power, I cannot consis.
tently with ray political principles remain any
longer here after such an event shall have taken
place. With grief I shall then leave a country
to which I am attached by my best feelings.—
Accept, Gentlemen, &c.
(Signed) " WM. TOWNSHEND WASHINGTON."
• July 29.—The Protest of General Roche and M. Wash-
iagtoa is dated 28th July.