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THORNBURY, MONDAY.—The village of Tockington
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sternation and alarm, by the murder of a respectable
farmer of the neighbourhood. The daring and cold-
blooded crime was committed in a beer-house, kept by
a person named Thomas, by a man named William
Weyman, who served, I am informed, in the army for
about twenty years, and has latterly been subsisting on
the produce of a pension granted him for servitude, and
which he has eked out with small sums earned by him
as a messenger, for carrying parcels, attending the port,
and cleaning the accoutrements of such farmers as are
members of the Duke of Beaufort's regiment of Yeo-
manry Cavalry.
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his own freehold at A wkley..a hamlet, nearly adjoining
the village in which his inn der a, as perpetrated. Sa-
turday morning, about ten, Mr. Fisher, while on his way
to Bristol, where he was proceeding on business, called
at the house of Thomas, where he had some cider.
The assassin, Weyman, was also there, and two men
named Knapp and Cullimore. The accused also called
for some cider, which he drank, after which he began
boasting about his having received a penny letter from
the Post office, in which was a note for 501. The de-
ceased denied the truth of this assertion, and said he was
telling a lie. The accused replied, "If you had said that
outside of the house, you should never have kicked
again." The deceased repeated the observation, and
shortly afterwards the accusedl eft the room, and in the
course of a minute returned, holding a large cavalry
pistol (which the landlady had before observed in his
coat pocket) in his hand. He then placed the muzzle
of it close to the face of the deceased, and fired. The
pistol burst, and the lower part of the face of Fisher
was shattered in a frightful manner, and he fell on the
floor. The murderer made no attempt to escape ; and
on a surgeon, who was passing the house at the time,
and was called in, entering the house, he said to him,
" That's a dead shot, I'll warrant it." The deceased
lingered for about 20 minutes, when he expired. In the
meantime the constable of the tillage, who had been
sent for immediately upon the commission of the
crime, arrived and took the accused into custody,
As they were proceeding along the road towards
Thornbury, in order to go before the Magistrates, who
were then sitting, the prisoner admitted the murder.
He said he had had the pistol a month, and for the last
four days had had it loaded with powder and marbles
(used in this part of the country as a substitute for bul-
lets by the butchers, who are in the habit of shooting
beasts in the head before slaughtering them). He also
said he had been looking for the deceased the previous
day, and had he found him, would have shot him ; but
he could not do so, and seeing him that morning at
Thomas's he thought it was a good opportunity to do
it. The constable cautioned him to be careful what he
said, but he went on to say, " I shall be hanged for it,
but I shall die happy, because it is on account of that
woman." He also added that he had harboured the
thought of killing him in his bosom long before he went
for a soldier, and that it was about that woman.
The inquest on the body was held this day before
J. W. Ellis, Esq., Coroner, and a respectable jury em-
pannelled at the Swan lan, nearly adjoining the scene
of the murder.

The facts as before stated, were proved, and wit-
nesses called of whom the prisoner had purchased pow-
der and marbles, and also a woman, to whom he had
said on the day before that he was looking for William
Fisher, and if he could find him be would butcher him.
It is thought here that the female referred to by the
prisoner is the wife of the deceased, to whom an old
twin in the village says the prisoner, before he went for
a soldier twenty-nine years since (she being then a
mere child of about eleven y ~rs old, and be about 19)
was attached. It is presumed that. be was angered with
the prisoner on account of his marriage with this female,
and that it was jealousy which led him to the perpe-
tration of the fatal deed. The prisoner bears an in-
different character, but the deceased was highly re-
spected.

The Jury, after a lengthened and patient investiga-
tion of the testimony adduced, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against William Weyman.
The prisoner, who seemed quite unconcerned, was
removed to the county jail to await his trial. It is said
he had been drinking hard for two or three days, but
was not much the worse for liquor at the time.

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THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Lord Pahnerston's account of his inter
with Baron Brunnow, the Russian Plenipoten--
tiary, relative to the occupation df the Straits of
the Bosphorus and Dardanelles by Russia and
England.
(From the Correspondence presented to both Houses of
Parliament.)

VISCOUNT PALNIERSTONFTorociTgrniu-offitM.ceR,QOUIcStoOLCrL2AS7IICBAZD.
MY LORD,—Your Excellency has been already informed,
through the Russian Government, of the particulars of the
communications which Baron Brunnow was sent hither to
make, and of the nature of the answer which her Majesty's
Government gave to those communications ; but in order
that the details of the negotiation carried on between the
Baron and her Majesty's Government may be upon record,
I think it right to recapitulate them in this despatch.
Baron Brunnow arrived in Loudon on the 15th Sep-
tember, and left England on the 12th of October ; and
during the interval between these two dates, ho had seve-
ral long conversations with myself, and with other mem-
bers of her Majesty's Government, upon various matters
connected with the relations between Great Britain and
Russia.

The substance of all his communications on these different
matters was extremely satisfactory ; and nothing could be
more conciliatory than his manner upon every occasion.
He was frank and unreserved in his conversations; and his
mission, whatever may he its result, as to the main point
upon which it bore, cannot fail to produce beneficial effects
upon the relations between the two Governments.
Baron Brunnow, on his arrival, stated that the principal
purpose for which he was sent hither, was to explain
frankly and without reserve, to her Majesty's Government,
the views and opinions of the Russian Cabinet upon the
affairs now pendii,g in the Leval_t; and ask for an
equally candid explanation of the views and opinions of
her Majesty's Government.
He said, that the Russian Government had been grati-
Led at finding that the sentiments of the two Cabinets on
these matters, as far as they had been mutually explained,
appeared to be so nearly alike ; and he said, that the
Russian Government had witnessed, of late, with great
satisfaction, evidences, as they conceived, of greater confi-
dence on the part of the British Government, in the sin-
cerity and good faith of Russia with regard to the affairs of
Turkey ; that the Emperor felt that he deserved that con-
idence, and was anxious to confirm it by the fullest expla-
nations, and thus to draw closer the ties between Great
Britain and Russia.

The Baron said, that the Emperor could take but ore
view of the relative positions of the Sultan and Mehemet
Ali ; that he looked upon the Sultan as a sovereign who
was his ally, and entitled to his support ; and that he con-
sidered Mehemet Ali as a revolted subject : That he saw
that the quarrel between these two might lead to events
which might occasion serious differences between the
Powers of Europe, and endanger the general peace ; and
that he was therefore most anxious that some perma-
nent arrangement should be made between the two par-
ties, which would ensure future tranquillity : That his
Imperial Majesty was convinced, that if England and Rus-
sia could come to a clear and full understanding on the
matters, the arrangement which they might determine to
support would ultimately be carried into effect : That the
Russian Government understood that her Majesty's Go-
vernment were of opinion, that the arrangement best cal-
culated to prevent future collisions between Mehemet Ali
and the Sultan, would be that, which, conferring upon
Mehemet Ali the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt, would re-
store immediately to the direct authority of the Sultan, all
the other portions of the Ottoman empire now occupied
by the forces, and administered by the authorities, of Me-
hemet Ali : That the Russian Cabinet entirely concurs
in preferring this arrangement, and is perfectly ready to
co-operate in carrying it into effect; but that compulsion
of some kind might become necessary to induce Mehemet
Ali to consent to this plan; and that the Emperor, not
choosing to embark in a plan without seeing his way to
the execution of it, and not being willing to begin an un-
dertaking with other parties, without being certain that
they had made their minds up to go through with it, in
conjunction with him, his Imperial Majesty was desirous,
before this arrangement should be proposed to the Sultan
and Mehemet Ali, to know what Powers were prepared to
concur in the measures which might be necessary in order
to carry it into effect.
Baron Brunnow then proceeded to discuss those mea-
sures, and to consider what they might be. He stated
that the Russian Government very much approved of the
series of coercive measures which had been proposed by
her Majesty's Government, namely, the interception of all
communication by sea, between Egypt and Syria ; the
blockade of the ports of those two provinces; the seizure
and detention of all ships under the Egyptian flag; and
the occupation of Candle, and its restoration to the direct
authority of the Sultan. And he said, that if these mea-
sures wore taken by a powerful alliance, acting in support
of the Sultan's rights, or even if such parties were to inti-
mate to Mehemet Ali their determination to take such mea-
sures, should they become necessary, iittle doubt could be
entertained that Mehemet Ali would yield to superior force,
and would submit to inevitable necessity, But the Baron
said there was a contingency connected with these mea-
sures which could not safely he overlooked. Mehemet
Ali had declared, that if coercion were attempted against
him, he would immediately order Ibrahim to advance to
the shores of the Bosphorus, and to threaten Constantino-
ple. This might be an empty menace, which perhaps
never would or could be put into execution ; but, on the
other hand, Mehemet Ali might, in a moment of despera-
tion, mrlke such an attempt ; and it might be the more
likely that he should do so, if he thought such a movement
would take the Powers of Europe unprepared, and would
create cliitensions among them. Consequently Baron
Brunnow said it was of the greatest importance that Eng-
land and Russia should settle beforehand what should he
dove in such an event.

That it was clear that the Sultan was ant at present in a
state to defend himself against such an attack : his army
having been defeated and dispersed, and his fleet having
been delivered up to Mehemet Ali. But the Sultan could
not be abandoned, and left to be a prey to Ibrahim. That
some of the Allies must come to his aid, and that the Em-
peror tleught that, from local position, Russia was the
Power which could most easily afford assistance. That
Ibrahim would take about twenty days to march from his
present positions to the Bosphorus; and that there would
be time enough during that period for a Russian nasal
force to occupy the Bosphorus, and for a Russian land
force, if necessary, to take post on the Asiatic side of the
Strait.

Baron Brunnow said that the Russian Government
was well aware of the feeling which exists in this country
about the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, which, whatever may
have passed about it, the Emperor nevertheless considers a
binding obligation ; but in the present case, the Russian
Government proposed that the aid to be given, if necessary,
by Russia, to the Sultan, should be given, not in virtue
of the separate engagements taken by the Emperor, but in
virtue of the engagements about to be entered into be-
tween the Powers of Europe and the Sultan. That this
succour, therefore, would be an act of the Alliance, and
not of Russia alone ; that the Russian force would arrive,
as the force of the Alliance, and would retire as the force
of the Alliance, whenever the purpose for which it cane
should have been fully accomplished. He said that the
Emperor was perfectly willing that all these matters should
be settled by a previous convention between the parties
concerned ; that this Convention should define the objects
to be attained; should determine the means to be em-
ployed ; and should assign to each of the co-operating
Powers its appropriate share in the execution ; and that
the arrangement which, on this matter, he, Baron Brun-
now, had to propose, was, that all the operations which
might become .necessary in Egpyt and Syria, should he
undertaken by England, and Austria, and France; and
that whatever might be requisite within the Straits, and
in Aaia Minor, should be executed by Russia.
He said, that with respect to tha Straits of the Bos-
phorus and Dardanelles. he understood that her Majesty's
Government were of opinion, that as a permanent principle
and standing rule, the best arrangement would be, that
while Turkey is at peace, both of those Straits should be
shut against ships of war of all Powers ; and he could as-
sure me, that the Emperor would bo perfectly ready to
agree to such an arrangement, and to consider the Bos-
phorus as being as much closed against Russian ships of
war, as the Dardanelles against the ships of war of other
Powers ; and the Emperor would willingly agree, that an
Article to this effect should be inserted in the proposed
Convention.

Baron Brunnow further said, that if England and Russia
should happily come to an understanding on these matters;
and if such a Convention as he had described, were to be
signed, he was authorised to say, that in such case the
Emperor would not renew the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi.
The Baron further said, in reply to a question which I
put, that the Russian Government did not make the ac-
cession of France to these arrangements a sine qua non ;
and that although the co-operation of France would un-
doubtedly render the execution more easy, Russia would be
perfectly ready to act without Franco, if France could not
be persuaded to concur, and if England was willing to go
on without her.
As soon as it was possible to assemble the Cabinet, a
reacting of her Majesty's confidential servants was held, to
consider what answer it would be proper to give to these
overtures from the Russian Government; and the com-
munication which thereupon it became my duty to make to
Baron Brunnow, was to the following effect
I stated, that her Majesty's Government highly appre-
ciate the friendly sent►ments towards England, which
prompted his Imperial Majesty to send Baron Brunnow with
the communication with which the Baron had been charged,
and that her Majesty's Government derives the highest sa-
tisfaction from finding that the views and opinions of the
two Governments upon the important matters in question
were so entirely in accordance.

That the Russian Government had justly interpreted the
feelings of that of Groat Britain, when it supposed that
the British Cabinet repose full confidence in the sincerity
and good faith with which Russia is acting in these affairs;
and that her Majesty's Government are most anxious to
give proofs of that confidence. That her Majesty's Go-
vernment are ready to adopt the whole arrangement pre-
posed by Baron Brunnow, with the exception of one single
point, upon which I had to propose a. modification, which,
without essentially altering the plan, would remove a diffi-
culty which her Majesty's Government would otherwise
find insurmountable.

I said that her Majesty's Government continue to think
that the only way of preventing future collisions between
the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, which might seriously en-
danger the peace of Europe, was to bring back within the
confines of Egypt the state of occupation of Mehemet
Ali ; the Sultan at tho time granting to the Pacha, as a

compensation for the sacrifice which he would thus make,
an hereditary tenure in the Pachalic of Egypt. I said
that we continue to be of opinion, that if the Five Powers
were to agree to assist the Sultan in imposing this arrange-
ri:ont upon Mehemet Ali, the latter would, however reluc-
tant to do so, yield to the force of a confederation which he
would know himself unable to oppose, rather than expose
himself to
.the risk of forfeiting by resistance, those advan-
tages which proposed arrangement would afford him.
That even if the
Lrench Government were induced, by do-
mestic consideration.,
to decline being a party to the pro-
posed Convention, yet
if such a Convention were signed
,:d were made known to Me-
hemet.by• the
io\ other
,there
eFourre
seems P cmi.
°s,
good reas.'n to think, that it would
induce him to acquiesce; but that at all events, the means
of the Four Powers to enforce the arrangement would be
amply sufficient ; and that Great Britzin was prepared to
become a party to such an agreement, and to take a share
in the execution.

I said, that with respect to the Straits of the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles, Baron Brunnow had rightly understood
the opinion of her Majesty's Government; and that this
opinion rests upon a general and fundamental principle of
the Law of Nations. Every State is considered as hav-
ing territorial jurisdiction over the sea which washes its
shores, as far as three miles from low water mark; and,
consequently, any Strait which is bounded on both sides by
the territory of the same sovereign, and which is not more
than six miles wide, lies within the territorial jurisdiction
of that Sovereign. But the Bosphorus and Dardanelles
arc bounded on both sides by the territory of the Sultan ;
and arc in most parts less than six miles wide ; and conse-
quently the territorial jurisdiction of the Sultan extends
over both of those Straits ; and the Sultan has a right to
exclude all foreign ships of war from those Straits, if he
should think proper to do so. Now, by the Treaty of
1809, Great Britain acknowledged tail right on the part
of the Sultan, and promised to acquiesce in the e Iforee-
rnent of it ; and it is but just that Russia should take the
same engagement; and her Majesty's Government are of
opinion, that the exclusion of all foreign ships of war from
the two Straits would be more conducive to the mainte-
nance of peace, than an understanding that the Straits in
question should be a general thoroughfare, open at all
times to ships of war of all countries.
But, I said, her Majesty's Government beim-, willing to
acknowledge by treaty, as a general principle, and as a
standing rule, that the two Straits should be closed for
all foreign ships of war, are of opinion, that if for a par-
ticular emergency one of these Straits should be opened
for one party, the other ought, at the same time, to be
opened also for other parties; in order that there should
be the same parity between the condition of the two
Straits, when open and when shut ; and therefore her Ma-
jesty's Government would expect, that in that part of the
proposed Convention which would allot to each Power its
approprir.te share of the measures of execution, it should
be stipulated, that if it should become necessary for a
Russian force to eater the Bosphorus, a British farce
should at the. same time enter the. Dardanelles. I said,
that this was no proof of any want of confidence in Russia ;
for, in truth, the very fact of the Emperor becoming party
to the proposed Convention, would make it impossible for
any one to breathe a doubt as to his Imperial Majesty's
good faith; and that, as the bulk of the British squadron
would probably be required off the coasts of Egypt or
Syria, the smallness of the number of ships that could be
spared for going up the Dardanelles, would of itself show
that their presence, was intended to record a principle and
to manifest union, and not to proclaim distrust or to exer-
cise contt-01.

Baron Brunnow expressed great regret at this decision
of her 11I4jesty's Government, which must necessarily sus-
pend for a time the progress of the negotiation ; because
his instructions did not provide for this case ; and he
should therefore be obliged to refer the question for the
decision of his Government, and much valuable time
would thereby be lost, which ought to be employed in
action. But he pressed me much to consider whether
this question might not be put aside, and be reserved for
future consideratim, without preventing the two Govern-
ments from proceeding to act upon other points, with re-
spect to which they were rgrccd; and he expressed a
strong desire that the Allied Powers should make an im-
mediate demand for the restoration of the Turkish fleet,
or for the contemplated territorial arrangement, or for any
other thing upon which they might be agreed ; and that
if their demand should be refused, they should begin by
putting in force those measures of coercion in which they
might all concur, leaving the question about the Dar-
danelles to be settled if, and when, it should arise.

I said, that leer Majesty's Government had indeed pro_
posed that the demand for the restoration of the fleet
should precede the demand for the territorial arrange-
ment, and should be made immediately ; because it ap-
peared to ur, that whatever differences of opinion might
exist as to the territorial arrangement, there could be no
difference as to the propriety and juitiee of demanding
and compelling th-,, restitution of the fleet. But Austria
and France were against such a course ; and both recom-
mended that the que,tion about the fleet should be allowed
to merge in the. larger question as to the final arrange-
ment; and her Majesty's Government had yielded to the
wish of those two Powers.

But certainly, Austris, Russia, Prussia, and Great Bri-
tain, being agreed as to the arrangement which ought to
be enforced upon Mehemet Ali, might at once, and with-
out France, if France should be unwilling to join them,
call upon Mehemet Ali to submit; and they might begin
to execute the progressive measures of coercion, if he
should refuse. But in that case, Mehemet Ali might
order Ibrahim to march to the Bosphorus; and then would
come upon us, in the most inconvenient manner, and with.
out our being prepared for it by any previous agreement,
the very difficulty which we were at present unable to
sAve ; and I said, that unless we should come to a satis-
factory understanding as to what was to be done in such a
contingency, it would not be wise to take steps which
might directly tend to make that contingency happen.
The Baron, however, still pressed upon me the great
anxiety of h:s Government that something should be done ;
and the strong conviction of that Government that some
act or othtr would become necessary, on the part of
scmc of the Powers of Europe, within a very short period
of time ; and from himself, but net by any instruction
from his Government, he pressed me to submit to the Ca-
binet, that Great Britain might, by herself, take some pre-
liminary measures, which, either as demonstrations, or as
a commencement of coercion, could not fail to have a de-
cisive influence on Mehemet Ali. _

I said I knew that, in the present state of things, her
Majesty's Government would not begin to act alone in
these matters. That we attach very great importance to
the attainment of an European concert upon these ques-
tions ; and that we by no means as yet despair of arriving
at such a result, that if it should be found impossible to
unite the Five Powers, or a sufficient portion of them, in
a common course of action, it would be necessary for the
British Government then to consider what it might be
fitting for Great Britain to do ; but that till the present
negotiations should have come to some conclusion, it
would be premature fur her Majesty's Government to
take into consideration a contingency which has not
yet happened.

It was then agreed between Baron Brunnow and my-
self, that we should each draw up a report of what bad
passed between us; he, for the information of his Govern-
ment ; I, for the information of your Excellency. I was,
however, prevented by a heavy and continued pressure of
business, from preparing my despatch ; and Baron Brun-
now's Report, of which he gave me, confidentially, a
copy, and of which I herewith inclose a copy, contains so
full and so faithful a report of the convey ations to which
it relates, that I felt it unnecessary, at the time, to add
anything thereto ; and my reason for writing this despatch
is, that I am desirous of furnishing your Excellency with
a statement which, though less full in detail, embraces a
greater range of time. I am, &c,_
(Signed) PALMERSTON.
BARON I3RUNNOW TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

London, July 3, (15) 1840.
My Lord,—The third article of the Convention which
we have just signed, anticipates a contingency, and an-
nounces, in that case, a co-operation concerted in common
between our Courts.

To carry this intention into effect, in such a manner
as to avoid the delays which distance from the spot might
occasion, I have the honour to request you, my Lord, to
have the goodness to enable me to apprise the Imperial
Cabinet of the extent of the succour which her Britannic
Majesty's Government would have it in its power to place
at the disposal of his Highness the Sultan, for the accom-
plishment of the object which the Courts who have signed
the Convention of this day, aim at obtaining, in the com-
mon interest of the preservation of the Ottoman Empire.
Receive, &c.,
(Signed) BRUNNO W.

VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO BARON BRCNNOW.
Foreign-office, July 15, 1840.
M. le Baron,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of this day's date, and entirely agree with you that,
in the present state of things, and considering the distances
which separate our respective Courts from the places
where the measures mentioned in Article 111. of the Con-
vention of this day would be carried into effect, it is desira-
ble that we should at once conic to an understanding as to
the co-operation stipulated fur in that Article.
Recent events in Syria have indeed rendered it less
likely than ever that Ibrahim should venture to march upon
Constantinople, but, nevertheless, we ought to be prepared
for such a contingency.

There can be no doubt that if such a case were to arise
the Russian Government would be able, from its disposa-
ble means in the Black Sea, to send to the Straits of the
Bosphorus a sufficient succour either of land or of naval
forces, according to the nature of the case, for the defence
of the Sultan ; and it is not therefore fur the purpose of
completing a force which would otherwise be deficient, that
the British contingent would be sent.
But it has been wisely judged by all the parties to the
Convention which we have this day
signed, that we should
best promote the great objects of European policy which
we all bay,: in view, by so arranging the execution of every
part of our measures, that we should in every step of our
progresa give manifest and indisputable proofs of our
union and mutual confidence; and in this view of the
matter it becomes of great importance that a British force
should co-operate with the Russian force in the contingency
provided for by the Third Article of the Convention.
But the amount of naval force which we could spare for
such a purpose, must necessarily be limited by a considera-
tion of the aggregate amount of our squadron in the Medi-
terrane..:n, and of the other services which that squadron
will have to perform; and I had occasion to make known
to your Court, by a despatch which I addressed to Lord
Clanrielrde in October last, that in such a case we should
be able to send but a small number of ships to the Dar-
danelles and Sea of Marmora.

1 have now communicated upon this matter with Lord