The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

SHOCKING EVENT AT NAPLES.—The follow

ing deplorable event has lately taken place at Naples
Extract of a letter from Naples, 20th instant. 4. A few
days ago a Sicilian, named Muratori, a coffee-house-
keeper, married fourteen years since to a respectable Eng-
lishwoman, having three female children, eight, six, aid
three years of age, from an ungrounded fit of jealousy,
which had driven him to a state of phrenzy, shot his wife,
and an hoar after that himself. A subscription has been
made for the orphans by the British residents and visitors,
and the Rev. C. Lushington, the resident chaplain, has
kindly taken charge of the poor children, until they can
be placed in some asylum in England. The relation of
this tragical insane act was thus given by the eldest child,
who, with her sisters, slept in the room with her parents:—
. My father, at daybreak, suddenly left his bed, seized a
piat,l from the drawers, and fired it at my mother. Tho
pistol missed fire; my mother jumped from the bed,
struggled with my father, and succeeded in gaining the
shop adjoining the bedroom. My father took another pis.
tol, followed my mother quickly into the shop, and shot
her dead : she never spoke or moved. We all ran and
clang around our mother. At length, an hour after, as
far as I could judge, my father came and dragged us from
our dead mother, put her watch around my neck, gave
trifling presents to my sisters, kissed us affectionately, and
yam, no one heard us. At noon the
locked us up in a room, desiring us to remain quiet, under
threat of punishment, and then shot himself. We cried
father with the pistol firmly
anieligshehroeuarnsl,edseeihing the shop closed, informed the police of
the quarter of the circumstance, who same and forced the
objects seen,
htheihmyuzzle touching the throat, where
door, when the horrid spectacle of my dead parents were
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grasped
fatal hound
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Oh, my poor mother !
I can say no more.' "
ANECDOTE OF ARIOSTO.—The father of the
post having been displeased with him, reprehended his
obhjuiesnd had been given.
conduct with unusual warmth and severity; Ariosto listened
to the reproaches with an abstracted air, but replied not,
and his father left the chamber. Gabrieli, the brother of
Ari
father had'sta°t'whovaussPer d ;
present,
urged the same reprimands that
their when Ariosto immediately satisfied
him that the condemnation, which he had incurred was
unmerited, by explaining- the misconception of their
lo)uarrein'att.h; "Butand ally not have communicated this fact to
so have exculpated yourself ?" was the na-
tural question of Gabrieli. " Because I was thinking all
the time he reproached me so angrily,
that the
scene then
passing might be successfully used in the comedy I am
son,the actual, in the composition
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his dinner
Thursday
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parties, tut will resume them to-morrow, on which day
since
the Noble Lord will outer his 82c1 year, having been born
Ells Lordship had,
on the Ist of January, l7s9.—Brighton Gazelle.
The Earl and Countess of Kentnare have ar-
rived in town, from their beautiful seat, near the Lake of
Killarney, for the season.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir
Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Chancellor and Senior Knight
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Mi-
chael and St. George, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the
said Order,