The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-23 00:00:00

SUICIDES.

A Coroner's Inquest was taken on Tuesday, at
the Hare and Hounds public house,- Newington, on the body
of Charles Fennell, who put a period to his existence on Mon.
day. Deceased had been for nearly four years confidentially
engaged in the management of the estates of Johnson Lloyd,_
Esq., near Southend, and had continued so Ontil• about three
or four months ago, when some inaccuracy was detected
in his accounts by his master, who informed the deceased
that unless the deficiencies were made up within a car.
twin period, legal proceedings would be taken. Unfortu.
nately, it appeared that he either could not or did not make
any attempt to remedy those ;errors ; anti fearing the come.
quence of a public exposure, about a fortnight previous to ti a
time of settlement; he absconded, .taking with him, however,
no property belonging to his employer. 'When his Might was
discovered, Mr. L. imagined that he had carried off money to a
considerable amount, which was then unaccounted for; but on
breaking open the desk in the office, the whole sum was found,
together with the following letter, addressed to Mr. L.
" Honoured and much injured Master—There's no aye in
saying any thing as to what a past—l have wronged you, and
am sorry for so doing ; but as a proof that I am not a con.
firmed rogue, I have not touched one penny of money or any
other thing belonging to you. You will find all right, save
only the deficiencies in my last settlement, which 1 have at
present no earthly means of making, good. The supply which
I have on leaving. your house is, God knows, very small ;
neither have I a friend to whom Lean apply for assistance-;--so
that when that is run out, I do not know what shall become of
me, or how to subsist. Do not pursue me with the Jaw—it
can do you no good to punish me--and believe. me, that had
no intention to defraud you of one farthing. The account; up
to the moment of my quitting your service, is along with-the
books—and the money, being 751. 13s. Bill, is tied up in the
cash bag. Forgive me, worthy Sir, and God Almighty will
bless von and yours for ever and. ever. " C. FENNELL.
For J. Lloyd, Esq."
Measures were instantly taken to discover the fugitive, not
with a view to hostile proceedings, but to invite his return,
and to announce forgiveness; but, unfortunately, he evaded
all inquiry. The unfortunate young man sough t refuge is.
London, and attempted to enlist in the East India Company**
service, but was rejected, being under the stand ird height.
After which lie went to the house of Mr. James Tamworth,
his maternal uncle, at Newington, where he continued until
the commission of the fatal deed, which terminated his exis-.
tense. For sonic days previous he exhibited extreme depres-
sion of mind, and retuned almost all sustenance. On Monday
morning he rose early, and walked into London, but was buck
about ten o'clock, and, complaining of a pain in his stomach,
retired to bed, where he remained undisturbed for four or five
hours; when his cousin, Martha Tamworth, went to call him
up, in order to have some tea, and then• found him quite dead
and cold.

Surgeon Crook examined tho body, but no chance existed of
restoring animation. The body was opened, and found to con.
twin nearly two ounces of laudanum, which was the immediate
cause of dissolution.
Several persons spoke to the generally deranged state of the
deceits A's mental faculties.

Verdict—" That deceased committed suicide by poisonmiten
in a state of temporary insanity."

On Monday week an Inquest was held before errant,Es
IiTHITAXEIt, Esq. Coroner, on the bodylof G. Trippet„ a soldier
in the 17th Regiment, now stationed in. Hell garrison, who shot
himself on the afternoon preceding. This is the second instance of
self-destruction which has occurred in that garrison within a
short time. The unfortunate man was servant to the surgeon of
the regiment, by whom he had been treated with great kindness
and liberality. It seems that he had lately fbrinett sotne bad
connexions, and his conduct, in several respects, suffered a car-
responding alteration. During the preceding week he had been
three whole nights out of the garrison, for which he was sen-
tenced to fourteen days knapsack drill ; but, through the intor.
cession of his master, the punishment was entirely remitted on
the preceding Friday. Notwithstanding this lenity, his miscon-
duct preyed on his mind, and he was observed to be in a low,
desponding way. On Sunday afternoon, during the absence
of a comrade, he effected his purpose, by leaning; forward upon
the muzzle of his gun, and putting the shaft of a brush upon
the trigger, which he pressed down with his foot. The ball
entered his belly, and came out at his back. Immediate as..
sistance was rendered hint, but, after languishingseveral hours
in a state of insensibility, he expired. The deCeased was a
native of Doncaster, and about twenty-one years of age. Ver.
diet---" Lunacy.".

BoW,STREET (This Day.)—The notorious
Johnson, the informer, still continues to haunt
the Licensed Victuallers of the metropolis, and
this morales; he attended to prefer cbarges
against a host of that class of persons for keeping
open their houses later than allowed by law. Mr„
Osborne, of The Ship, James street, Covent-
garden, was convicted in the penalty of Ws. and
costs for selling gin at three o'clock in the morn.
ing. Mr. Osborne defended himself by sayi"g)
that be kept open to accommodate market people.
A number of other persons were convicted in the
same penalty.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the ►Mornin„ Papers, Dec. 23.

[mortxtm; POST.]
The private letters brought from India by the
Cambridge, were yesterday delivered. Their
general complexion is rather unfavourable. The
delay occasioned by the weather in the ope.

rations against the Burmese was likely to prove
highly prejudicial to British interests. It had
not only enabled the enemy to encrease his mili-
tary force and the means of defence with which
his territory abounded, but it had given him an
opportunity of tempting the fidelity of some of
the native Princes dependent on the Company,
Aough with what success had not yet been as.
vertained. A Burmese Chief, it was known, had
been tampering with Runjeet Singh to induce him
to revolt and to invade the Company's territories,
and as that Prince bad collected a large and well
appointed force under the pretence of cting against
Kabool, it had become necessary to employ the
whole of the Bengal army to the North, in watch-
ing his movements, for it was feared that he had
secretly acceded to the proposals of the Burmese
Government, and only waited for a favourable
occasion to direct his arms against us. It was
nut expected that the Commander-in-Chief would
resume active operations till last November, when
it was thought that he would make a dash at
Amarappoora, the Burmese rapital,.with 16,000
men. Great exertions were making to augment
his force. The 20th Regiment bad been dis-
patched from Bombay, and the 47th was under
orders for Bengal, and would sail as soon as the
vessels or transports for which the Govern-

Inept had advertised should arrive. It was hop-

ed that when the season should allow, Sir Ed.
ward Paget would be able to talc© the field as
Commander in Chief with 25,000 men : but it
seemed to be the general opinion that ten thou.
sand more troops would be required from Eng.
land to terminate the war, and that even then it

would take a considerable tune. There had been

some skirmishes, which were said to hove termi-
nated to the advantage of the Burmese, and one
of the letters states, that an unfortunate mistake
bad occurred to an expedition from the Madras
army, which had been sent up the river to attack

n stockade. Sir A. Campbell having embarked
for tho purpose of co-operating with the land
force, his ship had tired upon our own troops,
some of whom had been killed, and in conse-
quence of the confusion created by the accident
the object of the expedition had been lost.

[BRITISH PR EMI
At the India House, yesterday, it was an-
nounced by the Chairman, that it was Intended
to print some more papers relative to the admi-
nistration of the Marquis of Hustings. Already

a pile of above 2,000 pages has beel'i. delivered to
the proprietors. Bow will it be possible, if
many more papers be printed, to come to any
sound decision as to their contents ? Who will

read such a mass through ? Most men, deterred
at the vast bulk laid on their tables, will altoge-
ther abstain from beginning m hat they must
plainly foresee they can never accomplish ; and
the desired information will thus almost as effec-
tually be denied them as if no papers at all had
been printed. This is one of the cases which has
most tended to prove the unfitness of investing
sovereign power in the hands of a mercantile
company. It is quite clear, whether Lord Ilast-
ing,s be blameable or not, that justice cannot be
rendered to him by any judgment of the General
Court of Proprietors of East India Stock. In
order to qualify them to decide correctly on
the question, they should wholly abstract them-
:selves for several months from every considera-
tion but that one alone. Who, however, even of
those who will speak on the subject, will take the
trouble to read the two thousand pages already•
printed ? And yet not only ought they to be
merely read, but attentively compared and con-
sidered'.? Mr. Douglas Kinoaird; who, it ap.
pears, has some publication forthcomiug as to
Indian matters; gave notive of his intention at
an early period to call for the opinion, of the
Court as to the merits of the Noble Marquis's
services, That decision, whenever it may be
rnifde, we cannot doubt, will exonerate him from
all suspicion of wrong ; but who will be led to
that conclusion by a diligent and careful perusal of

the riocuri►entnry history of his ridminiitration ?

A more striking and intelligible proof of what
the Company o►ve him may be concisely drawn
from the events in India during the last two

years,

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are not of the number of those who think,
because we are the most canting people'in Europe,
that things would be much better with us if there
-were less cant.—ln countries where public opi.;
nion possesses no force there is no cant, and it is
because there are few persons in this country to
whprn it is not of some consequence to stand well
With the rest, of thercommunity, that iCis deemed
necessary to sacrifice on the altar of insincerity.
Many a man', for instance, finding that hu-
manity is in request, affects to be more humane
than he really is ; but we do not see how the corn.
munity ,would be a gainer by an open display of
the brutality to which be is perhaps inclined. In
fact our chief security must always he derived
front the deference to the general feeling. It is
sto (Wulff. true that the standard by which the
'public' judges may not always he a proper ones;
that an importance may be attached to things
which in themselves are of little moment, while
things of real consequence are comparatively dis-
regarded ; but in such a case the prOper courke is
to endeavour to enlighten the public with
respect to the 'mints in which it is in error.
—llO one will refuse to allow that the: pre-
Naknce, of human feelings is highly desir.
"Id that tlw affectatien of humanity is
at „all events better than the open disreprd
of, it. lint public opinion has sometimes greater
difficulties to contend with. We have the richest.
ArisloancY in the world, and wherever there is
great wraith there must he great profoseness and
extravagance, not to say profligacy. Eyery triao
ought to be humane; but it is not so certain that

every man ought to be ascetical. From the very
nature of things, the same standard would seem
to be inapplicable to every class of society. To
the poor man, a fit of extravagance may be cer-
tain ruin ; while all that the rich man need
dread may be a head-ache, or action of da-
mages. It will be impossible, therefore, to in-
duce the rich to square their couduct by any
standard formed on the ascetic principle ;
'and indeed it would not he easy to show a
rich man, especially in youth, what advantage he
possesses in his wealth over a poor man, except
in the power of indulging in various gratifications
which it places within his reach. The great sti-
mulus to mental or bodily exertion is the acqui-
sition of wealth. But the rich man already pos-
sesses that for which the poor must toil, and
therefrom much exertion, either mental or bodily,
is not to be expected from him. To expect,
therefore, that there shall be no profligacy in
high life, is to expect impossibilities. To be
consistent, if we would have no profligacy, we
ought to say that there shall he no rich men,
which would be destroying the chief cause
of the improvement of the world. The best
way of dealing with rich people is not to impose
a standard on them which they will set at defi-
ance, but to make them pay soundly for every
indulgence which interferes with the happiness
of others. Cases of this kind will be of constant
occurrence, because wealth. will always he en-
deavouring to make poverty subservient to its de-
sires. A contemporary found faalt with the da
mages lately awarded to a certain popular actress
because she was not in the possession of un-
spotted virtue as well as of beauty. If this prin.
ciple were acted on, it would only give addi-
tional power to the rich, and, by diminishing .the
price, enable them to add to the number of their
victims.

[THE TIMES.]
Not many days ago, we cautioned the public
against the dirty tricks of Irish Orange incen-
diaries, for the excitement of a No-Popery panic.
Here is one of their artifices. London Paper,
little known here, but sent, like other damaged
goods, for sale in a less discriminating market,
having been duly primed from Dublin, let ofithe
grave and circumstantial histOry, that • Lord
Forbes, a General Officer of high standing and
repute, had come up from the county of Long-
ford to the Phoenix Park, to represent to the
Lord Lieutenant, that the Protestants of his
Lordship's vicinity were in a most perilous con-
dition, and the country on the point of open
rebellion. The Orange Chronicle added, that a
Privy Council " had sat to a very late hour the
" night before, to concert the measures necessary
44 to meet the approaching crisis !" and that .a
proclamation was then actually- (almost three
weeks ago) " printing," the purpose of which
was, to put down the Catholic Association. Now,
to show how carefully the web of wicked non-
sense was prepared, we know that for some days
before the above statement made its appearance,
the Dublin alarmists were boastingevery where that
Lord Forbes had joined the Orange party, and
that his eyes were at last effectually openedto the
danger which threatened the Government. This re-
port (and no wonder) made a sharp sensation, from
the known character of Lord Forbes for firmness •
liberality, and good sense. Well---th© best 'of
the story is, that Lord Forbes, never came to
Dublin at allnever made any representation to
the Lord Lieutenant as to the danger to.be feared
from the Catholics; and so far from having joined
the Orange faction, holds them hi utter antipathy.
Ills Lordship wrote to the Dublin Evening Mail
to disavow the gross falsehood, which was like-
wise contradicted in the Dublin Evening Post
of the 7th instant. So industriously, however,
has the poison been administered, that it is still
in partial circulation at this side of the water
,which. induces US to take thus much trouble to-
wards exposing it; We may add, by the way of
commentary on the prevailing disposition to
frighten people out of their senses by monstrous
tales of. disaffection and conspiraCy throughout
Ireland, that Lord Chancellor Manners, reputed
to be of an Orange spirit almost as highly recti-
fied as that of Mr. San tin- himself, has just gone
down to a succession of shooting parties, and
trusted his person in the midst of the very dis-
tricts alleged to be most ripe for rebellion! His
Lordship must, therefore, be well convinced that
the Catholic peasantry are the most forgiving
Christians or the most impotent enemies on earth,
—a good argument why he should not hate them
in the one case, nor fear them greatly in the other,
—why Lord Chancellor Manners, at least, can-
not be sincerely, both an alarmist and an Orange-
man.

Csicw rtivicsi
The Riga Letters and Papers continue to re-
late the most lamentable particulars of the inun-
dation which took place on the 18th of November
at St. Petersburgh. Its approach, appears to have
been awfully rapid. The storm began from the
south-west; and amid the howling of the witid,
it was most terrific to hear the cannon of the
batteries, and to see the lights from the Admi-
ralty Tower giving warning that the water was
rising in the Neva and in the Canals. This hap-
pened in the middle of the night. When morn.
big broke, the tempest grew still more violent.
Tiles and iron plates were hurled on all sides
from the roofs of the houses. At length, between
eight and nine o'clock in the 'morning, the Tiver,
burst over its banks, forcing its way into the
streets - and that so quickly, that in the part
called 'Wassili-Ostrow the water' rose an inch
a minute. Nothing could now resist the fury of
the storm. Beams and rafters, tome away by
the flood, were seen floating in one direction ; in
another direction a loaded vessel was driving at
random : here was the mast of a ship with all its
tackling and sail,, .there was a piece of wreck
with muiri clinging to it to escape from drowning. .A
Wooden honse of two stories, with the inhabitants
in It, was hurried along by
,watersthe ,t,,ranni deofillotaistleudedpatostr the resistless ma§s of
Tlhlui
is;
rage I muntilitaslv o palace
whole city, with the exception
of 'Liteine and
Jamskai, Whl It
are situated. on the highest
groom's- was under water..r .Frorn the dutermost
part of Wassili-Ostrow WU one great lake, ex-
, tending to a distance of 1% versts. In different

places the depth of the water varied ; but
every where it was several arsheens deep ; and
by the marks in the fortification it appears to
have been 37 inches higher than the flood of
1777. By two o'clock the water began to
fall ; and from four o'clock it continued to sink
as rapidly as it had risen ; so that by the
evening the streets were again cleared.—
But what a sight ! what a condition ! all
the cellars, stores, private houses, and other
dwellings,!were full of water. A merchant writes,
on November 24, for four days and nights I have
been at work, with ten men, to empty my cellars
of the water). In Wassili-Ostrow, and other
places near all the windows are broken to the
ground ; all the ovens and baking and cooking
stores are destroyed. The flood was succeeded
by a frost. On Nov. 30 it already froze five de-
grees ! One may imagine, or perhaps one can-
not imagine, the misery in which this circum-
stance must have plunged many poor families,
whose furniture, provisions, goods, and house-
hold stores had been all swept away by the
inundation !

[MORNING HERALD.]
Our readers are aware of the awful calamity
which has befallen the city of St. Petersburgh.—
It is clue, we think, to the Emperor Alexander,
not to withhold from him the tribute of our
highest praise, for the prompt, charitable, and
truly noble line of conduct which he has adopted
upon this trying occasion. Of the acts of a des-
potic Government the Sovereign bears all the
odium, if there be any, and often, perhaps, un-
justly from our ignorance of the laws and customs
of the people, and the peculiar circumstances at-
tending its situation. We hear the term Au-
tocrat of Russia used sometimes in no very
friendly sense ; and, as a Member of the Holy
Alliance, Alexander is perhaps not the most
popular personage in this country. But when
we see the Ruler of a great Empire stepping for-
ward, as this Monarch appears to do upon this
occasion, feeling promptly the dilliresses of his
subjects, and as promptly setting an example for
their relief, and backing it by liberal pecuniary
means ! clothing too those feelings and this con-
duct in language of resignation and religious fer-
your seldom surpassed—we should do injustice
to our own feelings, and to the right feelings of
the British public, if we did not seize the first
,opportunity of paying our just and feeble homage
to virtues.so truly loyal, and which admit of no
sinister interpretation. It is a great satisfaction
to the citizens of the world, to one who looks
upon mankind us one family, to see that " Holy
Nature" is the same every where ; that Christian
principles are universal ; and that it requires not
the aid of refinement to teach men to act and
feel justly towards each other in the moment of
want, of peril, and destitution. Such principles
being common to all nations, is, or ought to be a
bond of common union, a truly " Holy Al-
liance," which cannot be too sedulously culti-
vated. For ourselves we can say, that after the
noble conduct of Alexander upon this occasion,
we must ever think it our duty to look favour-
ably and charitably towards all he does ; satisfied
a heart which can feel so justly towards the
distresses
ofhis people, must be that of a person
fit to
eigl over
them, and of One whose every
ri
other action de.,erves to be viewed with equal
charity and forbearance.

s
[Tire PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Our latestothentic accounts from General
Bolivar's army are dated the 2211 of August,
when he bad =liis bead-quarters at fluamanga.—
Since the battle of Junin, on the 6th, there had
been no other action ; but that battle, as we an-
ticipated, when we first read the account, ap-
pears to have decided the contest. The Royalists
had never afterwards ventured to make a stand,
but fled with such precipitation as to have lost
as much in their flight as a disastrous battle
would have cost. Of the ‘g brilliant army,"
which marched under the orders of Can-
terac, at the beginning of this campaign,
scarcely three thousand men were left,
and these are described as nearly exhausted
by harrassing marches, and entirely dispirited
by their reverses. The rest of the, troops
had either. joined the liberating army, or
had dispersed ; and it was confidently ex pected
that those 'who still adhered to their colours
would shortly follow the example of their
comrades, which was the more probable, as they
had wholly lost the character of a regular force.
General Bolivar, who had neglected no op-
portunity of improving, his good fortune, con-
tinued the pursuit without interruption, and
had successively occupied Farms, *huge, Pam-
pas, Huancavilica, Human, and Ilitamanga ;
at which last place he had his head-quarters, as
we have already mentioned. In the interval, he
had exerted himself, with the greatest success, to
remove the unfavourable impressions, which had
been instilled into the minds of the Peruvians,
respecting his character' and :views. In thistle was
greatly assisted' by the admirable discipline he
had caused his troope to observe, and above all, by
his repeated declaration§ that he had no other ob-
ject but the independence and welfare of Pera
in view. The consequence was, that he had been
every where received with acclamations; and he
was SO' struck himself by these unequivocal
demonstrations of joy, that, in his dispatches, he
expresses himself, with the utmost confidence that
he will be able to bring the war to a close before
the year is out. When he had heard of the events
in tipper Peru,
which we mentioned yesterday,
his hopes might not he more decisive, but his lan
gunge' could he stronger as to the duration of hos-
tilities, and it is ou r own opiilion that they
will terminate winch sooner than he had at, first
anticipated himself. The leaders of the Royalists
finding success hopeless, and reflecting t
will pro-
o. an linuo.ura :resole
"blai she! ry4bt tre y
stotatuevaoifl titiieleirmsnetic!ie coftsntry,
capitulation, to secure their persons Zu
them
perty—a precaution that will strt
e
as the more necessary, when they. consider
the vindictive and unrelenting' charaer of
the Spanish Government. They know that
they can safely confide its the generosityof Bolivar ; but, having been once
tutionalists, and, moreover, unsuccessful, they

have established a claim to the honours of mar-
tyrdom, were they to set their feet again on any
paft of the Spanish territory, which would not be
overlooked by a Monarch so strict and puncti-
lious on such matters as Ferdinand is known
to be.