The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-22 00:00:00

OF WRITS.

Alderman COPELAND called the particular attention
of the Gunn to the fallowing
petition, which complained
of conduct which was pof a general system into
which it was their duty to ir,vestigat,3.
The petition
contained a very clear and eondented itatenica Of the
grievAnte
To the Right Honm.etnl:ehLi:bri.deal\liliy:
The Petition of Thomas Lott, Wik-lano. Chevaide;r, and the Alder.
AttorneY',a!-. /Saw;

execution under o aofj,uttiligentoe:,
cer-
tain sum of money t
duly obtained in the Court of Exchequer, to levy a eet.„
ern the goods of certain parties, re=
Shetelb,—eliliat yoar petitioner, on the 23d day of
May last, caused a writ of
sident in the City. That Inch_ writ waa on the same
day duly placed in the bands of
cers to the Sheriff,' of London, for execution,
That a warrant was granted on the said writ by the
Sheriffs on the 23(1 of May last.
That, , on'the 27th of May, your petitioner's clerk, not
having heard from the officer the result of the levy;
coiled upon him, and was informed by his man " that
be had levied, and the monry would be paid next day.,"
That your petitioner, not receiving- the same, wrote a
letter to the officer on the subject, but without receiving
any reply.
Teat your petitioner, on the Ist of June, asked the
Sheriff to return into Court the said writ of execution,
which was accordingly returned on the 6th of the same
month, and which return was to the effect ' that the
levy had been made, but that the goods remained in
hands for want of buyers." That your petitioner's clerk,
having eritten and called several times at the Secon-
dari:s' Office, without getting the money, was compelled
to sue out a writ of venditioni exponas, to compel a sale
of the property.
That, on thel6ili June, your petitioner's clerk called
at the defendant's doe:fling-1i
..ouse, and was informed by
the deferelant that the mount of levy under the writ,
and all expenses, were pia to the officer immediately
after hi taking possession of the goods, N iz., on the
24th of May last.
Teat your petitioner directed the attention of the
Secondaries to the matter, and they, on the 18th of
Jung, being three weeks after the writ was issued, paid
your petitioner the amount, due to his client.
Teat your petitioner has been informed b 3 the Se-
coadaries, that the officer to whom your petitioner's
elute trawled the writ of execution, gave the same to

EAST INDIA SHIPPING,
Arrivals.—The Miranda, Hayes, from Van Diemen's
Land, in the River, sailed from Hobart Town Feb. 7,
Rio April 24; Alfred, Flink, from New South Wales, in
the Downs, sailed from Sydney March 17, Pernambuco
June 7 ; Samuel, Smith, from New South Wales, off
Hastings, sailed from Sydney March 25; Planet, Thomp-
son, from the Mauritius, off Falmouth, sailed April 4. St.
Helena, May 14 ; Joanna, Allen, from the Cape of Good
Hope, in the River, sailed from Table Bay April 30, St.
Helena May 7 ; Matilda, from the South Sea, in the
River, sailed from New Zealand FGb. 23; Jessie Mitchel,
Thompson, from the Mauritius, in the Clyde, sailed March
29, Cape of Good Hope April 30; Argyra, Reed, from
the Mauritius, at Liverpool, sailed April 5, St. Helena
May 14; Hawk, Brown, from the Cape of Good Hope, in
the Downs, sailed from Table Bry May 17, St. Helena
June 2.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good {lope.—The
G rn, Robb, May 2, from Falmouth ; Stratheden, Cheape,
31, from London, alit/ sailed 11th fur Madras; Bayne,
Richaidson, 3i, from London; and sailed 12Lh for the
Mauritius; William Money, Green, 4th, from London,
and sailed fur Sydney; Inn, Whelan, 4th, from Llaneliy,
and sailed sth for Men ; Kestrel, Reed, 4th, from Fal-
mouth ; Agrippiha, Rogers, 4th, from London, and sailed
9.11 for Ceylon ; Fourteen, Armstrong, 4th, from New-
castle; Franklat,d, Pearce, sth, from Liverpool I tnfield,
Thaddick, sth, from St. Domingo; Lloyds, Green, sth,
from Coi k ; Nine, Denny, from London; Transit, Cobern,
6th, from Rio ; Hawk, Brown, 6th, from Rotterdam;
Olivia, Romne, from Rio ; Lucille, Clarke, 7th, from
Port-au-Prince ; Sarah Scott, Davidson, 7th, from
Edinburgh,
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from Helena; Levant, Holmes, 12th, from Boston • City_ of
from London.

Arrivals it:Simons' Elay.-.4-ler Majesty's ship Fantome,
Buttelfield, May 2, from Plymouth, River Gambia and
Ascension ; her Majesty's ship Nimrod, from Plymouth,
and sailed 13th for China; Bengal Packet, Steward, bth,
from London, and sailed, 9th, for Madras; Rosa, sth, from
the Cape; New Holland, 7th, from London, and sailed,
12th, for Adelaide ; Mandarine, Muddle, 7th, from
London, and sailed, 13th, to Hobart Town; her Majesty's
ship Curlew, Ross, 13th, from a cruise.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay.—Mazeppa, Tate, May S, from
Table Bay ; Lynher, Brouse, 9th from Mauritius.
Arrivals at Port Nicholson, New Zealand.—Bengal
Merchant, ilegaery, Feb, 20th, from the Clyde ' Adelaide,
Campbell, from London; Glenbervie, Black, March 7th,
from London.
Arrivals at Sidney, New South Wales.—Globe, Bar.
low, March 13th, from London; Potentcte, Gilchrist, from
Mauritius ; Renown, Gordon, from Manilla : Cheerful,
Smith, from Samarang ; Hind, Jones, 19th, from Hobart
Town ; Portcnia, Comic, 20th, from the Cape ; Susannah
Ann, Anderson, 21st, from Port Nicholson Skernei
ThoMpson, from Newcastle ; Acasta, Ryle, 22d, from
London ; Australasian Packet, McPherson, from Hobart
Town; Christina Birkenshaw, from Port Philip; Britan-
nia Leith, from London; Robert Henderson, put back
from stress of weather.

Arrivals at Hobart Town.—Wcst tndlan, NicArthur,
March 12-h, from London; Eudora, Addison, from (W.
cutta ; Mary Ann Stovenson, from Mauritius ; Arab,
ILdgcs (at Launceston), 9th, from London and Cape.

Mr. I3unn, in his work on " The Stage," shows
that he possesses one rare plaid yin common with Boswell, and that
is, not being over fastidious about mincing matters, whether as
regards himself or others. The public are not losers thereby ;
end let Mr. Bunn account to the parties alluded to for the
rest, as by is *ell prepared to do, seeing that his statements
are in the main based on facts, the written evidence of which
cannot be impugned. Many are the curious tales revealed,
both of performers, literary men, and the aristocratic patrons of
the drama. 'We have also the correspondence of those per-
Sona,ges whom the public are In the haloit of seeing and admir-
ing in every character .save their own. On the whole, Mr.
Bunn's work ti-.:ty be pronounced one of the best repositories of
theatrical go•sip, and staat reminiscence that has appeared in
Our time.— Caledonian Mercury.

39, ALEEMARLE-STRIET, PICCADILLY, AND
No. 76, KING Atritt.imil-sfeEtr, BANK OF ENGLAND.—
DEAFNtSS ANn DxrEcTlvE Vistdse.—A greater proof of
the value of the Messrs. S. and B. Solornons' Invisible (hie-
relive Voice ComitictOr, and newlpintented Spectacle Lenses,
cannot be add seed than the circumstance of the stony thou,
sands of individuals who have obtained the greatest benefit and
instant relief, and the constant immense demand there is
fin theth, and the patronage they have and daily continue to
The Messrs. S. and 11. Stilomorts disclaim all con-
nexion t.itli df the tame narde and the sale of amber
spectacles ; the pernicious use Spfrtatles being noV4
yicll knOwn to the public, and the vendor being avVdta of it,
he Iles thereforo altered heir name, by leaving out the word
"amber," and railing thiqt! "Patent Spectacles." Dr.
Andrew Ure, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., &c., statta r.wher is most
poWerftilly electrical by friction, very ot, to such an extent
as to explode iiitb fittginist The Workmen, to,, are subject
to a nervous trerneur in their wrists, arms, tit. ? they encounter
great danger by handling such dreadfully-excited electflCS:
Atitlier is Of such a soft and sticky nature that it is apt to take
fire; and when et posed to *arent.h, it swells, bubbles up, and
Will burn away. with flame. This statement it further con- 1
Armed by Sir D. BreWster and Pliny, as also by Parks afid
Herns, on Chemistry. pernichnis and destructive use of
such a material for spectacles to imperfect vision May be aster-
tamed at any, respectable optician's in London.
THE HON. URANTLEY BERKELEY'S NEW
NOvEL, " SANMION HALL"— This novel offers s fair and
enterkinine picture Of " the days of Queen Anne," as they
presented themselves to a hightspilited scion of a noble house,
on first launching his gay and gallant bark on hotly aqd
sparklin current of London life, at the period in question. In
fact, "life in London in the Days of Queen Anne" would
ht.ve been an appropriate title for Mr: Berkeley's novel, for the
main aim of the writer seems to have been to draw a picture
of the manners, habits and eccentricities of London life in all
its numerous classes and degrees. In these volumes we have
sketches of almost every class, from the most refined courtiers
and the most noted political leaders of the day, the most cele-
brated wits and pacts, and the most distinguished beauties,
down to those *hose names have descended to us only in the
records of their follies, vices, and crimes. Almost every
character who appears in the novel is a real one, drawn from
the actual records of the time. From Queen Anne herself.
and that extraordinary woman who so long reigned " Viceroy"
over her, Qucon Sarah, as the Duchess of Marlborough used
to be called, down to the gypsies and tile prince of the pick-
pockets and thief-takers, Jonathan Wild, taking the noto-
rious Lord Lovat, and the still more notorious Colonel Char-
teris,
.by the way—all the sommites of the actual life of the
day figure in these varied pages.—Naval and Military Gazette.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday week, at
Normanton-on- Soar, near Loughborough, Captain George
e
Aston, of the 27th regiment of foot, suddenly fell_di:-.lr
vw
in the act of dressing for an evening party, at_lt i{e • J.
He:_aesimuch
Poweli's, and almost instantly becamea corpse.
respected in Nottingham, where he was well known. -"Leicester
cester
Mercury.
BELTON HOUSE, NEAR COTTERSWORTH.—
Earl Howe and Lady Georgiana Curz‘n have arrived from
Gopsall Hall, Athorstone, to meet the Queen Dowager and the
Duchess Ida at Saxe Weimar, who arrived on a visit to Lord
and Lady Brownlow, on Saturday evening. The Countess's
lvaltli is much improved, and on Tuesday evening et;umptuous
entertainment will be given to celebrate her birth-day. The
Ladies Caroline Anwlia and Catherine Cust, and the whole of
the cstablishmunt, have arrived troas. ..vvta, and the mansion
, is fen of company.

( From the Port of Spain ( Trinidad) Gazette, May 29.)
The store of Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron of this
town Viidg broken into one night in July last, and pro-
perty, principally iii watehes and jewellery, stolen there-
from, to the amount of about 1801. sterling. Not being
able to discover the thief, a notice was put in the island
papers offering a reward for such information as might
lead to his detection. Mr. Alexander Mathison, in the
following August, being at Rio Caribas, recognized
there an individual named Pierre, or Pedro Dias, well
h,.ewn for his bad character, and from some circum-
stances that eame to his knowledge, he (Mr. Mat"bison)
suspected him to be the robber of Messrs. Caldwell
and Cameron's store. He caused him to be appre-
headed, and in his possession were discovered many of
the ettieles stolen. These were placed in the hands of
the collector of the customs, and, leasing both the rob-
ber and the goods (as he thought) safe under charge
of the proper authorities, Mr. Mathison returned to
Trinidad, informed Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron
of what had occurred, and recommended them to send
down :some person to prove and claim the property.
Tois they did immediate)}. One of their clerks went
down to Rio Caribas, identified the property, consisting
of two or three gold watches, and other articles of
jewellery, amounting to 801. or 901. sterling. The
thief had already disposed of the rest. These re-
maining articles were Identified on oath before the
Commandant as the property of Caldwell and Cameron,
and as part of abet had been stolen from their store
in July. Tho proceedings were, however, postponed
from day to day, under one pretext or another, some
paltry exelisc.for delay being ever ready to defer the
tri,a. The collector of customs at lad sea the articles
e ore contraband, as the thief had paid no import duty
on them, and, therefore, they must be confiscated to the
Columbian Government. The Alcade, or Magistrate
of the Port, surprised, and naturally enough, at
this novel ani extraordinary- doctrine, protested
against it, and the consequence was, that the pro-
perty and the thief were both forwarded to Cu-
mana, for adjudication, by the higher tribunals, and
the clerk, who had been kept waiting from day
to day for six weeks, in the hope that the goods would
he delivered up to him, found himself compelled to re-
turn to Trinidad without them, hut with an assurance
that they would be sent from Cumana after the thief
had been tried. At length the annexed letter from Sir
K. Ker Porter, who bad been written to twice on the
subject, reached the hands of Messrs. Caldwell and Ca-
meron. His assistance had been asked for by them—
he had been requested to interfere, as British Consul,
and see justice done. We had almost omitted to men-
tion, that while the stolen property was in the hands of
the Collector of the Customs, this worthy gentleman
assumed the right to sell, and actually did sell, one of
the gold watches to a priest for seven doubloons, and
received the money. The clerk who was there on the
business was told by the clergyman, whom he saw with
the watch, that he had bought it of the collector, and
paid him the sum stated for it.
The following correspondence exhibits this nefarious
transzction in its proper colours
(Copy.)
Trinidad, August, 1839.
To Sir Robert Ker Porter, British Corisul at Caraccas.
Sir—Your situation as British Consul, as well as the
honourable character which you hold in the public esti-
mation, are our best apologies for addressing you ; we
beg, therefore, to submit to your attention the following
facts :—During the night of the 12th July last, the
store of Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron, merchants, of
this island, was burglariously entered, and a quantity
of valuable property stolen therefrom. Publicity having
been given to the circumstance, through the medium of
the press, it occurred that Alexander Mathison, Esq.,
Venezuelian Consul at Trinidad, who chanced to be at
Rio Caribas, recognized an individual named Pierre or
Pedro Dias, a man of known disreputable character,
and in his possession he discovered a portion of the pro-
perty which he had reason to suspect belonged to•
Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron. Mr. Mathison re-
turned to Trinidad, leaving the property in tie custody
of the Collector of Customs at Rio Caribas until the
same should be properly and legallyidentified. On stating
the circumstance to us on his arrival, one of the clerks'
of Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron was despatched for
that purpose to that place. The property was identi-
fied, but it formed only a portion of that which had been
stolen, and on requiring that it should be returned to
him, as the duly authorised representative of the
owners, the collector of the customs, in whose custody,
as before mentioned, the property had been left, had
the temerity to advance a proposition repugnant equally
to justice and the law of nations, that the articles thus
admitted were contraband, and as such confiscated to
the Columbian Government. The &cede, or magistrate
of that port, naturally enough, was surprised at this ex-
traordinary and novel idolti and protested against its
adoption, the consequence of whioh was that the
property and the thief bad been forwarded to Cumana
for adjudication by the higher tribunals. The property
in question consists of the following articles :—two gold
watches, one silver watch, four gold brooches, one pair
gold earrings, two gold finger-rings, one musical box,—
in all to the amount of 901. sterling. Tae clerk sent to
reclaim them was detained at considerable °trans° (say
80 dollars), at Rio Caribas, for some time, in the vain
attempt to recover this property ; and our present ob-
ject in addressing you on the subject is respectfully to
inquire whether such a construction can be placed on
the law of customs that articles stolen from a foreign
port, and claimed by the owners, can be by implication
termed contraband I and, if it be your opinion, as it is
ours, that no such construction can be justly arrived at,
that you will then use your authority to recover com-
pensation for the property as well as for the loss of
time and expense in the further attempt to recover it.
We beg leave further to state that, individually, we have
not the remotest interest in this matter; the owners of
the property are both at present in Europe ; but we feel
we would not be doing justice to them during their ab-
sence (as we hold their power of attorney), did we not
endeavour to use every proper tnes:Ps to recover the
value of the property discovered and identified.
We have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servants,
ATTORNEYS OF
CALDWELL AND CAMERON.

Trinidad, 1 lth February, 1840.
To Sir Robert Ker Porter, British Consul at Caraccas.
Sia,—Mr. Findlay, of our island, informed us some
time ago that you bad been pleased to notice in your
letter to him that you would inform us by the foliowing
mail-hog the result of what might take place regard-
ing the thief that stole certain articles from our store
last year, and at present at or about Caraccas, under
custody, the particulars of which we have already trou-
bled you with, and not having since heard from you re-
gaftline this circumstance, we think it may have been
lost sight of if so, we humbly beg of you, and as a
very great favour, to be pleased to let us know what
may have been the result of such proceedings or steps
that were taken against the robber ; whether the goods
are to be returned to us, or what ;I.lnishment he is to
suffer for his villany. Should you be pleased to favour
us with a reply, we should be ever thankful.
We have the honour to be, gir,
Your most obedient servants,
CALDWELL AND CAMERON.

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British Legation, Caraccas, April 3. 1840.
GENTLEMEN,-1 have at length received an answer
frvin this Government on the application made relative
to the restitution of certain effects which you said were
stolen froth you in the Island of Trinidad, and which
were afterwards discovered to have been carried from
thence to Rio Caribas, in the territsties of Venezuela.
Tue Minister for Foreign Affairs to the repuhlic informs
me that proceedings had been taken by direction of the
executive, to learn what legal steps the parties in.
terested had taken for the recovery of their property.
The answer received was, none whatever ; and,
therefore, he now tells ms that the same laws
are open to foreigners as to the citizens of
the country, so that Messrs. Caldwell and
(as it is out of mine) to
Cameron must proceed in the further prosecution of
the
affair
I.i:cording to these laws ; it being totally out
navy st,ands, such matters
interferepower
e trhoef
only belonging to the Courts of Justice. The Minister
business this-- cc nastivie
has, however, issued directions to the .10fx de primer('
instancia at Caraccas, that on his receiving toe groper
legal iqbrines on the cause, from the Administrator
at Rio Caribas, to proceed to the conclusion of the suit
with all expedition, and complete justice. Now, gen-
tlemen, all I have to say more on this affair is, that
should the property stolen be of no great value, I
feel confident the expenses attending the proceed-
ings necessary for its recovery will far exceed
that amount ; besides which, ynu must empower
some agent as well as lawyer to take the requisite de.
positions at Rio Caribas, and then attend to the march
of the suit in the Court of Justice at Cumana. All
this will be extremely expensive and tedious, and, as I
have observed, from long experience, how justice is ad-
arnistered when the litigation is on the part of a fo-
reigner, I fear very slender hopes of a successful termi-
nation would await you ; therefore it is my advice to
abandon the thing altogether, or you will increase your
present loss.
1 am,Gentlemen, your most obedient tumble servant,
R. KER PORTER.
Messrs. Caldwell and Cameron.

Saturday next is the hirdt-day of lier Royal
Hixhnecs the Duchess of Cambridge, wl.aa will complete her
42d yam

By the Jury—There were a number of pereonilater
the-premises. Tley have only being diem a fortnight.
I saw her husband go away th the morning. I did ant
see Healy go into the house.
Sarah. Callaway—l live at 33, CSiolinc-buildinar
Ei:mtes-row. I knew the deceased woman, her nine
was Weatherley ; she lived with her husband; they were
tenants of mine. Ido not know the man who is dead.
I heard her cry murder I yesterday morning. I saw a
man trying to shove her into a coal-hole ; her person
was exposed ; they were both standing up. I saw bias
cut her across the hand, and then stab her in the throat.
I called out, and he let her go ; she came across the
room into the court, and went to the second door and
sat down. No one rendered her any assistance. I
went to her and took her hand, and she said she was a
dead woman. A young man supported her head, and
tied a cloth round her throat. I heard something heavy
fall in the house, and after assistance came I went and
saw the man lying on the floor weltering in his blood.
John Smith—l am a potman at the Gibraltar. I
passed the house about ten minutes before this occurred,
rand all was quiet. I heard an alarm, looked into the
window, and saw the woman lying on the floor, and the
man .cutting her throat. I burst open the door ; he left
the woman, who ran by me. The man said to me I
had better fetch a policeman. I went
to get an iron-
' foot to protect myself, as he was armed ; and 'on 'my
return I saw him go to a looking-glass, and deliberately
cut his own throat. He cut two or three gashes, and
pulled them open. He sat down on a chair for abbut
half a minute, when he fell on the floor weltering in his
blood. There were several persons who saw what was
going on. I was not absent two minutes, to fetch the
iron-foot to protect myself.
Joseph Ramsden—l live in Pleasant-place, at the
back of the house where this occurred. On Monday
morning I heard a stifled cry. I looked over the wall
and,saw the woman lying on the ground, with her clothes
disordered. The man was cutting her throat.
Henry Weatherley, of 14, Caroline-place—l am a
costermonger. The deceased, Lucy Weatherley, wag
my wife. She was about twenty-eight years of age.
We have been Married fifteen years. I know the de-
ceased William Ely. He was a shoemaker. I be-
came acquainted with him at Greenwich by lodging in
the same house. He was a married man, with
two children. He was about forty years of age. I
was jealous of him some time ago. lam sure nay ivife
was fond of him. I had moved with a view of getting
away from him. I bad not seen him for ten days
before this happened. I was home yesterday morning
at about half-past eight. My wife seemed very com-
fortable. 1 lett at a quarter alter nine. I heard
of this about ten minutes after it occurred. Healy
came to Billingsgate to me about ten days ago, anti
said that he had done what be liked with my wife. I
listened to all this, and took him so a public-house and
treated him, as I wanted to hear more. He asked
when he should sec me, as he had more to tell me. I
met him again at the Green Man, and be told mo se-
veral things. At the Elephant and Castle he asked
me to give him some gin and tobacco, which I did. ,
have not seen him since. I told my wife on my return,
and she owned to it. My wife told me she had sew
him on Saturday in the London Road. Ile asked Nes
for his knife which she had ; it was the knife with which
he cut her throat. She gave it to him, and he
told her he• was going into the country, and she left
him. They bad had no quarrel. I cannot account
for his doing this. He was a drunkard, but has been
sober for three or four months past. He was sober and
in his senses when 1 last saw him. I cannot tell any
more about it. I have known Healy about tour years.
She had gone away in the country with him for !oar-
Icon weeks. I found her out and got hef to come and
live with me again. His wire never lived in the house
with me and my wife. My wife and myself never had
any quarrel about him. We bad made up matters
between us, and she said she would have nothing
more to do with him.
The knife with which the murder was committed
was here produced ; it is a shoe-maker's knife, and ap-
pears much worn.
Mr. John Ca)dey—l am a surgeon ; assistant to
Mr. Gelatly, in London-row. I was called in yester-
day morning, and saw the two bodies ; the woman had
two severe cuts across the throat, one of which divided
the wind-pipe and carotid artery. She died from loss
of blood. One wound was four inches in length, in
depth about two inches, and the other three incites in
length, and two inches in depth. There were also cuts
on the right handand wrist. The man had two cots
in hie throat, one seven inches long, dividing- ail the yes-
se:s and muscles : the other was nearly at the same
,limo :ens, lower down. The_ man was dead, And the
woman nearly' fo, when I arrived.
Mrs. Saab Hea!y—l live at 38. Queea Anne-Areas.
Whitechapel. My husband, W. Ely, was a shoe-
maker. He was about 81 years of age. I have seen
Mrs. Weatherley. I suspected he was intimate with
her. He neglected me. He not lived with use
for the last five years. I saw him ti7o dais last week,
on .Thursday and Friday night. Re was like
a man out of his mind. He see ''led un-
happy. He said he had behaved very ill to
me. He left on Saturday and said he should go to Lis
friends in the country. He brought his tools on Friday-
and took them away on Saturday. I do not know where
he worked. I did not see him after Saturday. He never
mentioned Mrs. Weatherley's name on the Thursday or
Friday. He was walking about all night. It is the only
time I have seen him so.- He did nothing else strange.
He appeared uncomfortable in his mind, which surprised
me. I had not seen him for two years before. I have
two children. He never wrote to me. When I lived
with him he attempted to take away my life and that
was why I left him. I understood be was living witis
Mrs. Weatherley shortly after. When he was living
at Urecowieh 1 asked him for some asistance, and he
shut the door in my face. Mrs. Weatherly was then
living with him. I was frightened when he called on
Thursday, but I did not upbraid him at all. He said hp
was going home to Ballanter, near Sudbury.
Samuel BOcking—l live at 69, Bankside, and am a
collier. I have known Ely; several years. I should
say he was about forty years old. I hie seen hien
nearly every day for a month past. He was generally
sober. He had no money. He told me he was starvin
He came down to me with Mrs. W eatherley about three
months ago, and we hqd several pots of ale together.
lie never spoke to me about destroying himself. Ho
appeared very dull on Wednesday, and looked wild
I did not see anything particular about him except
that he was dull and looked wild. And when he and
Mrs. Weatherley came to me I asked him who she *as►
and he wouid not tell me.
John Bagwell—l live at 80, Long-lane, Bertnonidsq,
and am a boot-maker. I knew Healy. I got him a seat
of work about fortnight before this occurred. He
never got the work done. He tried to poison him-
self, A doctor was sent for. I do not know
,-;hat he took. On Saturday he came to the
house Caroline-row for
his tools. I believe
he wanted my s;;ler, the deceased
Weatherley, t
to go with
go with him into the country, and f ajulcybelieve that this
n
oheimen.rreHd
einhasc consequence
at
te nmc
omfothherer'srew?ltshi mg y sister.
y
One of the Jurymen suggested that Mrs. Bagwell,
the mother of the deceased Lucy Weatherley, shouldod
be called, but on inquiry it appeared that she s
a state of mind to be examined.
The CORONER having summed up, and directed the
attention of the Jury to the evidence as to the state of
Ely's mind at the time of the occurrence, the Jury-
consulted together for about live minutes, and returned
a verdict of wilful murder egainstSWilliam Ely, in the
case of Lucy Weatherley, and of fclo de-se, in the case
of William Ely himself.

A short time since while the sexton of Motlivey,
Carmarthenshire, was digging a grave for inferring the late
Mr. It. Morgan, eldest son of Air. Morgan of Llanwyncynn
near I,landevery, about five feet from the surface, he came to a
ecru riot vein of lead ore, of the finest quality; the vein is
very large one, and there aro several very large pieces Of the
ore kept and shotvn as a curiosity by the inhabitants of Moth;
vey....lVelahnian.

EVENING EDI lON.

THE CHILDREN OF THE DUKE
OF SUSSEX.

the most proper means for that purpose ; and lastly,
hereby revoking and making void all other will and
wills by me at any time herebefore made, especially
one I made for the same purpose at Berlin the fifteenth
day .f September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and which I
here annul, because I think this will made by myself,
in my own country, will have more sure and certain
effect, which quiets all anxieties I may have on this
head. In witness whereof I, the said testator, Prince
Augustus Frederick, have hereunto set my hand and
seal the day and year first before written.
(Signed) AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. (L. S)
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the be-
fore-named testator, Prince Augustus Frederick, as
and for his last will and testament in the presence of
us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as wit-
nesses, at his request, in his presence, and in the pre-
sence of each other.
(Signed)

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
The following has been addressed to us from the
southern capital, and is written, we presume, by the
gcnt'eman whose letters in reference to the same sub-
ject have already appeared in The Sun:—
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.
SlR—Although I differ from you in politics to a
considerable extent, yet I cannot but admire the per-
severance, temper, moderation, and talent which you
have displayed in all your strictures upon the question
of the Duke of Sussex and his children ; and I cannot
feel otherwise than proud that that question was first
raised, and continuously prosecuted by an Irish Jour-
nal, opposed to his Royal Highness in politics, but con-
ducted throughout with respect for that eminent and
distinguished personage.
" This question is one of deep, of paramount in-
terest, not only to the partiesimmediately affected, but
to the members of the Royal Family, the lovers of
monarchy, the supporters of legitimate succession, to
all the aristocracy, and to every loyal subject in the
land. It has already occupied much of my attention
—and this will not be the first time (should you con-
sider this letter worthy of publication) that my thoughts
have appeared iu the columns of a newspaper, in re-
ference to this subject, more than one London ed;tor
having condescended to print my letters.
You certainly have made a powerful case on be-
ha". of Sir Augustus and Mademoiselle D'Este ; but
pardon me when I say that there is a marked differeece
between an appeal to the sympathies and one to the
judgmeat of the public. The success of the one de-
pends upon the excitement of the passions—that of
the other upon the conviction of the reason ; and, I
must further add, that those (amongst them myself)
who are prepared, and who have already gone great
lengths in yielding themselves to the justice of the
claims of these children, as so eloquently urged by you,
have cause to complain, when anything like unfairness
or want of candour, no matter however adroitly con-
cealed or disguised. appears to influence your mind, or
direct your pen. The moment you become a personal
partisan you cease to be a public instructor ;' and
men will be cautious how they receive your general as-
ecrtions, or rely on your documentary evidence, should
this impression once gain ground.
" As for instance, the Evening Mail of the 6th inst.
contained a garbled extract—(l assure you I do not
mean the phrase offensively)—from one of the most, if
not the most, important document that has yet appeared
in reference to this extraordinary affair, namely, a pas-
sage from what is alleged to have been a will and tes-
tament' of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
" Now, Sir, I put it to you, in fairness and in can-
dour, whether, if the whole document be in your posses-
sion, the whole ought not to have been given ; and I
ask you, upon the same principle, whether the public
has not a right to know why, and under what circum-
stances, and with what object and purpose that will was
made—who was, or is, its depository—whether the ori-
ginal be still in existence, and how it found its way to
your printing-office ?
" These are simple questions which, if they be capa-
ble of satisfactory answers, will do more to remove the
doubts of those who are still sceptical, and to confirm
the opinions of those who think this royal marriage
legal, and its offspring legitimate, within even the mean-
ing of an abominable and unnatural statute, than any-
thing that has yet appeared upon the subject.
" I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
" Cork, July 13, 1840." " JU S T US."
The foregoing is evidently the production of a law-
yer ; and as we regard the queries it contains as some-
thing in the shape of " personal interrogatories," we
shall proceed to answer them with the same spirit of
" fairness and candour" in which they appear to be
put, and with a similar observance of technicalities, as
though they had been regularly exhibited in a cause,
and officially propounded to us by an Examiner of Court.
To the first interrogatory—" Is the whole document
(the wili) in our possession ?"
We answer—Yes.
To the second interrogatory—" Has the public a
right to the whole ?"
Answer—lt has.
To the third interrogatory—" Why, and under what
circumstances, and with what object or purpose, was
that will made ?'
AnsWer—The will was made with the view—as is
set forth in the document itself—of annulling a will of
similar intent executed fifteen months previously in
Berlin ; under the impression, as his Royal Highness
emphatically states, " that a will made by himself in
his own country, would have more sure and certain
Iffect—and to quiet all anxieties he might have on that '
head." And, in order the better to accomplish these
" sure and certain effects," and to add greater weight
and solemnity to the document, every word of it is in
the proper hand-writing of his Royal Highness himself
—copied, no doubt, from the draft prepared and re-
vised by his legal advisers.
It may not be considered as" matter pertinent or irre-
levant" to state here, that the will was exeeuted within
a few days of nine years after his Royal Highness's
marriage with Lady Augusta Murray. It would thus
appear to have been not the consequence of any sudden
outbreak or passionate excitement ; but a mature, de-
liberate, and well considered act of justice towards his
wife and child ; and that it was executed in the presence
(amongst others) of the chaplain of the Prince of Wales,
the heir apparent to the throne.
To the fourth interrogatory—'
poetory ?"
Answer—We believe there were two parts executed
—one lodged in the Bank of Messrs. Coutts and Co.,
the head of which firm was appointed one of the execu-
tors ;—the other deposited with his dearly beloved, and
lawfully wedded wife, the Lady Augusta —amongst
whose papers it was found after her decease by her son
Sir Augustus D'Este, in whose possession the original
remains.

JAMES YORKE, Barrister-at-Law,
of Lincolnii-Inn.
T. B. CL kRKE, Chaplain, &c., to
his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales.
C. CUPPAGE, Warwick-street,
Golden-square.
As we are in somewhat of a communicative mood to.
day, we shall give even more than our correspondent
Justus requires, and more than some im.:gine to be in
existence. It is a correct copy of a letter addressed by
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex to his child,
and superscribed, " To his dearly-beloved son, Prince
Augustus Frederick"—written thirteen months after the
execution of the foregoing will, and on the occasion of
the boy entering on his seventh year :
January 13th, 1801.
Endyntion, off Cape Finisterre.

My dear Son,—To-day begins not only a new year,
but also a new period of your life, for which you ought
to feel particularly grateful to your Creator. This you
can only do by a virtuous and good conduct—which, at
your time of life, consists in an entire confidence in God
Almighty, in a dutiful submission to your parents and
masters, and in being diligent at your studies, avoiding
idleness es the mother of all vice, which is the only
thing you ought eternally to hate.
At seven years old, you are no more a child, but a
boy—therefore you must put all childish things away ;
thus by degrees you will grow up a man—which is a
good Christian, a useful member of society—to the sa-
tisfaction of your fond parents.
In hopes of this, I pray to the Almighty to take you
under his all-powerful protection—that he may graci-
ously please to guard you from all danger, and keep you
in the right path of virtue.
God bless you, my dear son—thus writes your truly
affectionate father and friend,

AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
(Address.)
To my dearly beloved Son,
PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,
Num. 40, Lower Grosvenor-street,
Grosvenor-square, London.
_ . _

This is a beautiful composition ; it breathes a true
nobility of soul, and evinces all the paternal anxieties
that might be supposed to awaken the sensibilities and
actuate the feelings of a Christian parent and affec-
tionate father. In reading it we can hardly refrain
from imagining that we hear the young and ardent
parent repeating to his child the lessons of piety and
virtue which his own childhood had imbibed from the
instructions of the most pious and domestic Prince that
ever swayed the British sceptre—his own respected
and beloved father—the good, the venerable George
the Third ; and, without reference to public transac-
tions, we feel constrained to say that, au fond, the Duke
of Sussex must be a good man; no man with a bad
heart ever could have written such a letter. If recent
events harmonise not with those early sentiments, it
must be that his ear has been abused—that he has
been acting under some mistaken sense of duty—some
mysterious illusion of an unnatural conflict between his
domestic affections and his public obligations. Here
is a specimen of our better nature, of which one may
well feel proud. Here is a breathing of love, and
truth, and religion—of virtue, and of honour, and of
conscience—a noble and well•becoming outpouring of
the heart from a father to a son.

Away with the cold etiquette of Courts—the for-
mal technicalities of law ; a truce to appeals to Sove-
reigns, and remonstrances to Ministers. Let Augustus
of Este approach his father, bearing that letter in his
hand. His life has been a life of honour—one without
stain or reproach. He need not, like the Prodigal,
stand afar off ; nor in shame and trepidation approach
his father's dwelling. He can fearlessly cast himself at
his Royal feet—(may it be but the forerunner to his
being clasped to his Royal bosom)—he can exclaim,
" Oh, my father, you prayed, and prayed fervently, that
the Almighty might teach my youth the necessity of
virtue and good conduct. You taught me the holy
maxim, which you learned from your fathei, of placing
an entire confidence in Almighty God—you impressed
upon my mind the precepts of steemission to my parents
and my masters—diligence in my studies—an avoid-
ance of idleness. Here I am, arrived at man's estate—
review my conduct and my actions. The advice given
by the affectionate father and the friend, when I yet
stood upon life's threshold, has not been lost. My
beast and my pride is, that I have so deported myself
as not to be considered unworthy of being called your
son."
Could such an appeal as this, and coming from such
a son, and recalling such a document, be neglected or
withstood ?
Either the letter we have quoted is a rank forgery—
which we know it is not—or it presents the most awful
specimen of heartless hypocrisy ever recorded, which
we are unwilling to believe—or, finally, the Duke of
Sussex is a good man labouring, as we have supposed,
under the effects of ill advice, and an awful, but, we
trust, temporary delusion, as to an imaginary conflict
between his moral and domestic duties, and the neces-
sities which, as a prince of the blood Royal, his public
condition imposes upon him. We can conceive of no
State necessity whatsoever arising out of the circum-
stances now under consideration, which could or should
interfere with the claims of nature and justice in the
case before us. Under this impression we conclude ;
and we fancy we have given our Correspondent, Justus,
reason to agree with us, that in our recommendation as
to the result of " an appeal to the heart," there can be
no difficulty in giving a satisfactory answer.
In our fourth page extracts in reference to this sub-
ject will be found from the Brighton Gazette, Hull Ad-
velliscr, and Age. The following is from The San of
Monday evening, received this day. Our Contempo-
rary has put the question on its rigl.t basis. Need we
say how heartily we concur in the opinion so wisCy and
so eloquently expressed—" that the sooner reparation is
made to these injured and persecuted children, the better
it will be for the character of the Duke of Sussex, the
honour of the Royal Family, and the credit of her
Majesty's Ministers ?"
[Here follows an article from The Sun of Monday
last.]

." Who was, or is, its de-

To the fifth and last interrogatory—" How did this
document"—(it should be copy)—" find its way into our
printing office ?"
Answer—Good Mr. Justus, that is our secret. We
plead slur prerogative and decl'ne to answer.
Here, however, is a true copy of the document itself ;
and until the authority of the original be disproved—
(which we know to be impossible), it must stand as

and for
TILE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HIS POYAL HIGH-
NESS PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,
Executed in London, 12/4 December, 1800.
This is the last will and testament of me, Prince Au-
gustus Frederiek, sixth son of George the Third, King
of Great Britain, Franc, and Ireland, &c , &c., now
residing in Lover Grosvenor-street, number forty, in
the parish of Se. George, Hanover-square, in the County
of Middlesex ; which I make and publish this twelfth
day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred, in the manner following. That is to say,
it is my will and mind that all my just debts and funeral
expenses be first paid and discharged out of and from (From the Watchman.)
my personal estate. That my wishes and intentions in We are of opinion with our Contemporary, from
tie disposal of the remainder of '‘tnY property may un- whose columns we have extracted the following article,
doubtedly take place, whatever unforeseen events may an opinion, indeed, which we have more than once ex-
yet follow, and in the discharge of that ditty which I pressed before, that " the subject to which it relates is
feel incumbent on me, I think it requisite and joss for entitled to the gravest cocsidcration ;" and for that, as
me to declare in this my last will that I was so- well as for other reasons, we have felt it to be our duty
Ismnly and duly married to Lady Augusta Mur. occasionally to bring it under the notice of our readers.
ray, second dad ;titer of the Earl of Dunmore \V were, we believe, amongst the first of the public
nit the fourth day of April in the year of our journals in this country which did so, after it had been
Lord one thousand seven hundred end ninety-three, at introduced into the columns of the Dublin Evening
the city of Rouse, and in the Inn commonly known by the Mail, ajournal distinguished for its powerful and un-
name of Sarmiento, where my aforesaid wife then resided compromising advocacy of sound constitutional princi-
with her mother, Lady Dunmore, and her sister, Lady plea. Oa nestle:so:lnt we are the mare gratified to
Virginia Murray ; and also that for greater security, find so many pens now employed in favour of the recog-
and not from an apprehension of the first being in- nition of claims equally sanctioned by justice, religion,
sufficient, I again performed the ceremony of marriage and sound policy, as are those of the estimable
with my said wife, at the parish church of St. George, children of the Duke of Sussex,—claims of the
Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, by virtue righteousness of which none can, or, at least, ought
of banns published in the said church on the fifth day to be, more _sensible than his Royal Highness
of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand himself. We cannot therefore, allow ourselves to
seven hundred anti ninety-three : and that notwith- think that he will, much longer, allow any iufluenee
standing a decree has since passed the Court of Doc- whatever, so to control his better judgment and feel-
tors' Commons to declare my maniage unlawful and ings, es to prevent hiM from doing what, we venture
void, yet I feel myself still not less bound by every to state, it is his duty to do, no less from a regard to
obligation of law, couscience, and honour to consider her to his own fame, than it is that he may meet the
as my lawful and undoubted wife in every
respect, as reasonable expectations of a large and rapidly increas-
if that decree had never taken place, and tat I con- iee portion of the community ; and that is, to ask
shier and ever shall acknowledge our son Augustus from the same source, from which a ducal coronet
Frederick (who was barn after both these marriages) flowed to Lady Cecilia Understood, those social dis-
and of whom she was deiivered by Dr. Thynnin tinctions for his offspring Sir Augustus and Madernoi-
Lower Berkeley-street, number sixteen, in the parish sae D'Este, to which their birth entitle them, which
of Mary-la-bonne, as rn) true, legitimate, aml lawful distinction the Duke of Sussex has so solemnly and
son, but that no dispute ever hereafter may arise, so repeatedly declared to be their undoubted birthright.
as to frustrate the disposition of property I here make From the manner in which the press has taken up this
in favour of my wife and child, I avow? and declare question it is quite obvious to us that it cannot long
that in whatever capacities or situations the laws remain in its present unsettled state. It is now before
may view and place them, I give and be- the public. A decided oeinion, or rather a host of
qucath my property to them, and to them alone, in the opinions, favourable to the children of the Duke of
manner and proportions as follow, that is to say, to my Sussex have been loudly and candidly expressed. The
said wife Augusta I give and bequeath the full use and subject must come under the consideration of Govern-
enjoyment of all my estate and effects of what nature or I ment ;
for we concur in the opinion which has bee.'
kind soever they be, for and during the time of her na- expressed by others, diet it will become the imperative
c
tural life ; and after her demise, I give and bequeath duty of Sir Augustus D'Eete to act for himself and
the said property to my before-mentioned son Augustus his sister, by appealing
to the first Minister of the
Frederick and his heirs for ever ; and lastly, I nominate I Crowe, andthrough him to the Crown itself, against the
as guardians to my child, and executrix and executors cruel proceedings which have been so long adopted to-
of this my will, my wife Augusta, my brother George wards them, if his Royal Father should refuse to take the
Prince of Wales, the Right Hon, Francis Earl of initiative in a matter in which honour, justice, and good
Moira, and Thomas Coutts, Esq., Banker. In case it faith urge him to act with decision, -rigour, and prerne-
shwld so happen that the Prince of Wales should die titude.
before my son attains the age of twenty-one years, then I The following is the article referred to !
I appoint my brother Frederick Duke of York and Al- " The condition in which, by his marriage with Lady
ll
bany, and Prince Bishop of Osnaburgh, to be executer Cecilia
uggin, his Roil Highness the Duke of Sussex
and guardian to this my will, in his place jointly with has thought fit to phiee himself before the country,. is
my wife, Lord Moira and Mr, Coutts ; and if Lord s° very peculiar, and so nnte--:vorthy, as to impel us to
Moira should die before the aforesaid period of my son's consider whether his children, by his marriagefirst
majority, I appoint his Grace Archibald Douglas Ha- with Lady Augusta Murray, should not be regarded as
!
milton, Duke of Hamilton, as executor and guardian entitled to a position much more important and in-
to my son in the place of the said Earl Moira, jointly with ; teresting than is generally accorded to them.
my wife and the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York, l "We call his Royal Highness's union, with Lady
as the aforesaid circumstance may render, begging them to • Augusta Murray a marriage,' because it was solemn-
accept these trusts to maintain and support the rights ized equally as regularly, end far more publicly, than
of my child as my lawful and legitimate son, and to has been his alleged marriage to Lady Cecilia Buggin,
superintend and undertake the care of his education, which is unsupported by any proof of its having ever
which I wish to be the best and most liberal possible ; taken place, beyond assertion. If, therefore, Lady
leaving it to th,:ir wisdom and friendly zeal to choose Cecilia Buggies (or rather the Duchess el Inverness) is