The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-23 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The Count and Countess D'Antraigues, French
Noblesse, distantly related to the unfortunate fa-
thily of the Bourbons, resided on Thames-terrace,
on the banks of the Thames:- They lived in a style
which; though far from what they had formerly
moved in, yetwas rather bordering on High life than
the contrary. They kept a carriage, coachman, foot-
man, and a servant out of livery. The latter'Was
an Italian or Piedmontese, named Lawrence; and it
is of this wretch we-have to relate tint following
particulars. 'The Count and Countess,. intending

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to L-Oridiin as vestetday, ordered the carriage
to be•at the door by eight in the morning, which
it accordingly was ; and scion after that hour theY
/were in the act of leaving the house to get into it,
the Countess being at the door, and the Count
coming down stairs, when the report of a pistol *as
heard iu the passage, which it has since appeared
took no effect, nor was it then ascertained by whom
it wasfired. Lawrence was at this time in the pas-
sage, and on the smoke subsiding, was seen to rush
past the Count, and proceed with speed.up stairs.
He: almost instantly returned with a dirk in his
hand, and plunged it up -tti 'the, hilt in the Count's'
left shoulder; be continued his course, and made
for the street-door, where stood the Countess,
3,yhom he instantly dispatched by plUnging the
same dirk into her left breast. This last act
had scarcely been completed, when the Count
appeareit also at the door, bleeding and following
the assassin, who made for the house, and ran
up stairs. The Count, though extremely weak and
faint, continued to follow him, but so great was
the terror occasioned, that no one else had the same
resolution. The assassin and the Count had not
Lein upstairs ,morc„than a minute, when the re=
port of another pistol w`as hear all, which satisfied
those belOw that Lawrence- had nally put an end
to the existence of his master. The alarm was
now_given, and the cry of
,murder ! Murder! re-;
sounded from every mouth. The Countess was still
lying at the front door by which the turnpike road
runs, and at length men of sufficient resolution*cre
foundlo venture up stairs, and, horrible to relate,
they found the Count lying across his own bed,
groaning heavily, and nearly dead, and the blood=
th:rsty villain lying by his side, a corpse. He had
put a period to his own existence, by placing a
pistol, •thathe found in the room, in his mouth.;
and discharging its contents through his head.
The Count • only survived about twenty-five mi-
nutes_ after the fatal blow, and died without being
able to utter a word.

The Countess :had by this .time been brought,
into the house; the wound was directly on her
left breast, . extremely large,, and she died about
five minutes before her husband, also withoat'ut-
ttring a single word. The servants of the house -
were all collected Wit night, but no tank for
_so*
horrid an act was at that time known : all was
but conjecture.
The following circumstances; in so extraordi-
nary a case, may be, however,- worth relating.—
The Count, it 'appears, always kept a brace of pis=
toWhanging loaded in his bed-room, and a small
dirk. About a-month ago the Countess and the ser.,
vants heard the,report of a pistol up stairs,and were
in consequence greatly alarmed; when one of the lat-
ter, efetnale,went up, andlookedinto hermaster's,
room: it was fa of smoke, and she screamed out : on
its clearing away she sass Lawrence standing,who
told her nothing was the matter—he bhd only
fired off one of his master's pistols. It afterwards
appeared he had fired it into the wainscot: it nas
loaded with ball, and the bullet frorn„the pistol
is yet to be seen.

The Count and Countess were about 60 yearg
of age. The latter NV:I3 highly accomplished, a
great proficientin.music, and greatly admired for
her singing, in fashionable parties. There is no
reason whatever to believe that Lawrence was in-
sane. Only about ten minutes previous to his':
committing this deed of blood, he went over to an
adjoining public-house and took a glass of gin : hi
had lived only 3 months in the family, and report
says, was tb be discharged in a few days.' An inquest
will behield on the bodies to-day 5 but from what
we can learn, nothing-farther was expected to
transpire that could throw any new light on the
mysterious but shocking catastrophe.
"The 'Count and Countess had resided in their
house at Barnes for 'four or five years, and hare
left an only son, who, we understand, is at pre.
sent in this country studying the law.

TRIAL AND • CONViCTION, OF DAWSON,

,AT CAMBRIDGE ASSIZES.

This trial; which excited so .much interest in
the Sporting World, was tried yesterday.
The prisoner was arraigned on four indictments,
with numerous cbunts,, viz: for poisoning a horse
belonging to Mr. Adams, Of Royston, Herts, and
a blOod mare belonging tb Mr. Northey, at New-
market, in YBO9 - and also for poisoning a horse
belonging to Sir it. Standish, and another belong-
ing to Lord Foley, in 1811, at the same place., He
was tried ,and convicted on the first case only.
Serjeant SELLON opened the case, and detailed
the nature pf the evidence. _ _

The principal witness-, as-on the former trial,
was Cecil'Bishop, an accomplice withthe prisoner.
He proved-having been for some time acquainted
with Dawson, and that on application to him, he
'had furnished him with corrosive sublimate to
sicken horses,. as a friend of his had, been .tricked
by physicking his horse, which Was about to run
a. match.. He went
.0n..t0 prove that Dawson
and he had' become progressively acquainted, and
that on the prisoner complaining the stuff was
not strong enough; he prepared him a .so!u-
tion of arsenic. Witness described this as not
offensive' in sniel, the prisoner having in-
formed_him that the horses had thrown up their
heads, and refused to partake of the water "in*
which the c6rrosivelsublimate had been infused.
The prisoner complained the stuff was'not strong
enough, and on being informed if it was made
strong it would kill the horses, he replied, he did
not Mind that, the Newmarket frequenters wee
rogues, and if he, meaning witness, bads fortune
to lose, they, would plunder him Of it. The pri-
soner afterwards informed witness he used the stuff,
whiCh was then strong enough, as' it'had killed a
hackney and two brood mares. The other part of
,Bishop's testimony Went to prove the case against
the prisoner.
Mrs. Tillbrook, a respectable housekeeper, at
Newmarket, where the prisoner lodged, proved
having found .a bottle of liquid concealed under
,Dawson's bed, previous to the horses having,becu
poisoned, and that Dawson was out late on the
Saturday and Sunday evenings previous to that
event. Other witnesses proved a chain of circum-
stances, which left no doubt of the prisoner's guilt.
The Judge pronodnced sentence of Death on
the prisoner, and informed him, in strong lan-
guage, he,eould not expect mercy to be extended
to him.

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• ' WRITTEN, ON,
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'tilt LOSS ..OF IVILLIAAi PITT,
BY Ml. .1...C.MF.S AMOS, A MI;OUSCIt 'OF THE .131.17 CLUB:

Isle obiit rites
Qui gemii liumanitin irrrenit siltwA.Vlt et mums,
Rcstinxit stellas exoitus ut arias

LUC RET.

Mourn! Britain, mourn! we ne'er again shall view
The like of him who liv'd and died for yon!
That mighty soul, too great for, earthly faute,
ilas }eft, for kindred 'sours, a mortal name:
Cold is the tongue that bade each virtue rise, ,
And drew philosophy from other•sides ;
Great bulwark of ouriliberties and laws, -
Of England's freedom sad Of:Englantr:i cause,
Could no sad -pray'r-avail the•trenibliug state, ,
In orison from all the gm;il and great r
Must he, our refuge.then, to dust return,
And early moulder in the silent urn' • • -
He, whose exalted voice iuspir'd our youth
With love of wisdom, loyalty, andtruth!
How far above tfie morialherd he soar'd,
• •
As on•the band of senators was polled
The mgtchlesS torrent, whei-e. we lov'd tQ trace
The bold Athenian fire, the Roman grace: •
Conviction Hafrh'd upon the way'ring mind,
Which, foreat to feel the mighty art combin'd,.
As through the compass-of his words•it ran,. '
Was lost in wonder at the pow'rs of Man.
E'en in the wish of their perverted choice,
Opponent bands,• repeating Europe's voice, " •
Confeis'd the man for rule of empire made,
Alike to wield the fakhiou's awful blade, •
To make the foe lament that be was born,
Or rearthe olive in the copious

* What bounds could love, afrectiOn, rcv'rence own,
As virtue smiVd approving on the frown,
That rose majestic on the gathering brow,
,To check presumption doubting, or to spew
The base endeavour of a servile race,
By reason's fair unalterable grace.
'Lay the wild impulse of a lawless age—
And give to impotence a rival's rage.
0! that the man, who, with infuriate zeal,
Forgot his monarch and his weal,
Had syar'd our indignatiOn's pang to
For, ?ft, as candor wish'd to yield her praise,
Yet as she view'd the long contested stage.
Could scarce repress an unacenstom'd rage,—
Then to the patriot's rigid virtue turn'cl,
And all the ardor of affection buried.
- What Briton, formed to share a public woe,
Shall ask the debt of gratitude to know ?
Who hears unmov'd, how with his dying breath,
He own'd.his ruling passion strong in death,
His countrf's love! that Vire exalted flame,
Profess'd by many, but in few the same; -
That country, echoing to the classic page,
Could many au hour of infant thought engage, -
616 w in each youthful scheming, high behest!
On every step of public lifeimprest;, ,
E'en in his youth th' enraptur d father:hung
On TULLY'S periods flowing from his tongue, •
Whilst all the dignity of wisdom's state.
Maned the argument of England's fate.
,0 I may the recollection still preside .
A polar star, our public voice to guide,
t name, his honour, and his praise shall live,
Stampt on the gen'rous breast, and their true iafittence
give.;

Quid desiderii sit Tidor act hlodus`
Tam chari capitis, prmcipe lug-Ores
Cactus Melpomene.—J-loisAT.
/- Seaver honos, nomenque tnum laudes manebuat
Quze,me cunque vocaut terse.—ViuoiL.

FOR THE SUN.

HUDDERSFIELD, 16th July, 1812.

MR. EDITOR,

We, the undersigned Merchants and. Inhabi-
tants of this town and neighbourhood, acciden-
tally meeting at the News Room this day, ob-
served, with great indignation, that in the Pilot
ofTuesday, 14th July, 1812, (in the first column
of the third page), Mr. BROIIGHAM is reported to
.have used the following words in the House of
.Commont, in his speech on the second reacting of
the Bill for the better preservation of the Public
Peace—" At Huddersfield they (the inhabitants)
wei-e earning, upon an average, under one shil-
ling a week, and no -fund provided for their relief,
Which was ascribable, he well knew, to no other
cause but the poverty of the place."
We should be gld to know how Mr.Bnotlon-Am
would wish to be understood in this assertion ; rif
he means to assert that a labouring manufa'cturer
cannot earn in a week so
.many shillings as is
'equal to .the number of perions which composes
his family, (which we conceive to be the most
favourable construction tbat can be put upon the
assertion), then that assertipn, in. our °pi:lion, is
tbsolittely at variance with truth; a fortioiirif
the assertion be taken in that sense which most
-naturally -presents itself—that each labouring ma-
nufacturer was earning upon an average under one
shilling a week—then we are at a-loss to express
our boundless astonishment," • (to use Mr.
BitouGHAm's expressive words) at the confidence
of the assertion.

And,. as an express .contradiction of the, asser-
tion that no fund was provided for the relief of
the poor, we refer to a;public band-bill bearing
date the 18th day of May last, (a time 'previous to.
the date of the London Institution ffn- the relief of
the dLstressed manufactmer§), detailing the pro-
eectling3• of a meeting held on •that day at the
George Inn, in this -town, to Consider of a plan
to alleviate the distress of the necessitous poor ;
and to another public hand-bill, dated the 15th
wit last, containing a list of the subscriptions
for the relief of the poor of this town and neigh-;
bonthood, to the amount of upwards of 7001, the
existence- of Which subscription, from its very
nature, has, and must have been, notorious to
the ,whole neighbourhdod,
..as well from, its
amount, as from the nunibers who have been re-
lieved from it weekly, since, its- institution.
THOMAS ATKINSON,
Joni4,llo.itsFALL,
THOMAS ALLEN,
W. W. STABLES,
• J. DonsoN, jun.

FOR THE SUN.

VACCINATION.

MR. .EDIT9R,

It ,is a pity that your 'candour should lead to any
imposition on the public, and therefore "I' must
take notice of a letter in your -raper of Saturday
last,' signed CONSCIENCE. ,
The writer asserts that Miss 'Mclnnis, was in no
:danger, and that taking lymph frbm her arm
.during
the progress of Cow-pobk-, mitigated the symptoms
of Small-pox, thoug7h rit did not secure her..
Suffice it that • her attack of fever was violent ;

that it Inste4 three days, and,yieldel tO
Powder; that her eyelids swelled, and would have
been closed, but for j. udicious remedies made use-of
in due time ; the pok did not turn till the seventh
clay : so that I insist upon it that accurate tieat-
ment, and not ,cow-pdx,,carried her so happily
through the disease.
But CQNSCIENCF. assures us, that taking lymph
from the pustule is the reastin why the security is
converted into the protCction; for INII,;s Moimis
had been inoculated with Small-p6x, but her sus-
ceptibility was not awakened by it t she bad stood
the test of 'remaiuing_ in the, hope while her two

brothers went through the stages of natural Small-
pox, and did not become infected. he was talli-
ed of as a proof of the security of Vaccination till
the month of July, 1812, when it pleaSed jleave.o
to send, ts divine proof of the fallacy of human
invention into the nurseries of some more Of the
Faculty. '

The Y numerous failures among the children' of
• medical men are alone sufficient to put an end to
thelvished for security, and the eruptions and in-
. flamed arins are warnings for common sense to
.' shun the danger of them. Who would risk there
consequences for file chance
.of mitigating Sandi-
pox, when in the' cases of Loi d Grt o:ax's, Sir
.J. „13. 'SANDI'S', and Mr..G,thr.mAN's,children, the
natural disease nearly appmached the confluent
sort.? 'and at Ringwood, Missemien, NV.idford,
Brighton, Cambridge, 'and Grantham, so many
have died of Small-pox after Vaccination, that in
some of•these places the funerals have been per-
formed duringthenight ; and whether these deaths
have been occasioned by the malignancy of the
' disease, or the mismanagement of the Doctors,
remains'dvery great doubt ; for I may safely con-
jecture froth our present knowledge of the' 'treat-
ment of this complaint, that until' Mr. SUTTON
taught the Faculty how to mage Sitiall-pox- Ino-
culation, two-thirds of those who died were
smoothered by injudicious treatment;—died of the
trelltnzent, not of the Small-pox.;
For ten years past the Cow-posers have been .
fixed to the defence of their experiment, on,
grounds whiCh they have been regularly beaten
upon, one after the other; and their comparative
view of Small and Cow-poi has been their con-'
stant rally: Under the management of Vaccina-
tion, both the natural and inoculated disease may,
perhaps;be very fatal; but I do not find the 'same
results, the same blots, under the attentive con- .'
duct of educated surgeons : for the proceis is
within the province of surgery,; twelve penny-
worth of-medicine irenough to carry the complaint
through, with gobd nursing and proper regimen ;
and the year before the re-discovery of Cow-pox,
the common people were so habituated to early
inoculation, that epidemic Small-pox was subdued,
and, as the Dublin people expressed it, " they
desired nothbig better than Inoculation." •
The assertion of Mr. CONSCIENCE, " that no
eminent surgeon, who values his charaCter, is ever
guilty of. inoculating for Small-pox," is so
lar.to the attacks which have been made on me by
the agents of Dr. JENNER,,that I must consider it
as applied to myself; but it affects me as little as
the vulgar language and gross, epithets attempted
to be fixed on the Anti:vaccinists by:the Reports
of the College of Physicians.
I pretend to no higher evidence than that of
having uniformly and steadily maintained an opi-
nion against all the Colleges of Medicine in these
-United Kingdoms : I am ready to leave the sound-
ness of my judgment and the integrity of my cha-
raaer to the results of Cow-pox, and
,I have little
doubt the peviod is not far distant when' the ge-
neral voice of mankind will do me the justice to
acknowledge my original opinion of this mischie-
vous experiment was well founded, and that. I
have had no view but the good of mankind, and
the exposure of false doctrines, in my opposition
to the general opinion. .
lam placed, Sir, in a public situation, as a
teacher of practical surgery, where it is my duty
not to lead my pupils into error. I haVera right
to form my own. conclusions from what, years of .
experience have taught me, and I may appeal to
the success of my practice for the justness of those
conclu:fions.

I have published my sentiments on this most
interesting subject, in .anslter to an ingenious
pamphlet of Mr. MooiE, the Director of the Na
tional Vaccine Institutions, anduntil thoseserious
reasons for opposing Cow-pox are seriously con-
troverted; I shall remain, with a quiet conscience,
and with acknowledgments of yourimprtiality,
. • Mr.-Editor,
Your humble servant,
• jonN BIRCH