The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

The county coroner held an inquest on Saturday,
at Blanchardstown, upon the body of a man named
Matthew Nugent, who committed suicide on the
previous day by cutting his throat with a razor. The
jury, after examining two or three witnesses, found a
verdict of " Temporary insanity." The following
letter was written by the deceased on the day before
lie terminated his existence :

" Dublin, August 26, 1847.
" When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh, who would inhabit
This cold world alonel"
After years spent in a distant country, I return to
my own, and find the affections of my kindred wi-
thered and decayed, when I thought to meet with
them as fresh and as green as those within my own
breast. lam atino3 ed with the petty chicanery and
trickery of the world. Every man suspects the
rest of the world to be endeavouring to deceive him.
There is no sincerity in it. I have seen too
much of mankind ever to expect to be happy in
this world. I will therefore try what sort of place is
the next. I know it will be said that I labour under
temporary insanity ; on the contrary, I never was so
perfectly sane in • my.life. I know I have been a
sinner, but I have every dependence in the mercy of
the'-great God. Some would-be philosophers have
said that suicide is cowardly. What cur would im-
peach Cato with cowardice ? Some creature that
dare not prick his flo4h with a pin to escape from the
most degrading ,lavery. I wish I had an oppor-
tunity of staking my life in the service of my country,
but as I have not, I hope God will pardon me for
thus disposing of it. To two dear friends, from
whom I could have expected but little sympathy or
affection, I am indebted for the
them
sincere and
genuine kindness ; I sincerely thank ; they will
understand that I allude
my "pinions deto them. Farewell, my dear
friends, firewell.
of
omannksihnadrearoef
unjust, I crave pardon; have my
own
faults, and should deal„lii,TAtlyr
GEN
t.
" To the public, if the public like to read it."

A rag and bone-dealer, at Shrewsbury, in a rail-
way compensation case, heard last week, declared that he
did business to the amount of 1.000/. a week!
DRATR OP MAJOR PECK, AT KINGSTON,
JA2tAlcA.—We yesterday announced the demise of
Major J. J. Peck, of the 2d West India Regiment. The
deceased was in command of the detachment of the
corps
in this island. His remains were ii.terred on
Thursday evening in the yard of the parish church on
the Parade, the funeral service being performed by the
Barracksy lr. - Myers.
to the church at five o'clock. The Sring
party consisted of the flank companies of the Ist West
India Regiment, with
its
eaband, under the command of
I
Major O'Connor, follow
officers in the vicinity,, as I:,yiklidl the naval and military
most rewctable inhabitants as by a number of the
bourhoo& Major Peck h°f Kingston and its neigh-
ad
in the Peninsula,
sad for many years with his coserrpsvedin the West Indies,
he contracted
and latterly on the coast of Africa,
diseases which materially hastened There was
a large number of persons assembled end'
witness the military funeral,
....,being a long time sines a
PI/ the Parade to
;similar ceremony was
zeivad. ... m this city....,remcgm