The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-17 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO POISON.

Some days ago an attempt was made to poison
a shopkeeper of Marsham-street, Westminster, named ,Roberts,
by a female whom he had taken into his service about six weeks
ago. He had missed some articles of dress since she became
his servant, but no suspicion was entertained that she was the
thief, although her master had hired-her without a character.
He sent her upon one occasion for atone meat for the dinner of
hie family, but sunposing that it was not fair weight, he order-
ed it to be weighed. The quantity proved to be extremelYtle-
licient, anti lie. mentioned, his determination to " pull ep the
butcher" on the subject. lle however, desired his servant to
make Some broth of the meat, but be took bur little (lithe de-
licacy, as he footid that. the last was peculiarly disagreeable.
The woman in reply to his complaint, told him, without being
at all confused, that there was nothing objectionable in the
broth, and that she had been as usual careful in makingit. ' A
person who was at dinner observed, that sho gave a veryslight
quantity to the child, and that she wok still lets herself: r.
Roberts asked whether the acrid taste of the broth was not soot,
but she answered that nothing Offensive had got into it. In the
evening she absconded, taking with-her all her own clothes and
some of her mistress's. Her box however contained some evi-
deoce of guilt of another kind, for in it were found several du-
pliCates, t'rom the examination of which, icappeared that She
had been in the habit, ever sinee she entered the house, of steal-
ing her master and mistress's clothes and pawaing.them. In
the middle of the' night Mr.'Roberts was seized with a burn-
ing sensation of the stomach, and incessant vomiting far
some hours ; nature however prevailed, and in the tnoni-
ing the symptoms had abated considerably. When he
stated the circumstances, and his sensations after having
taking the broth, to a surgeon,he was informed that he hail eef-
tainly. taken poison. His child had been also affected with
vomiting, but the attack Wei comparatively slight. The woman
took care before she left the house to wash all the vessels into
which the broth had been poured. She has hitherto evaded •all
a!tempts to apprehend her. It is believed that she had Wel
some time before a pauper in. St. Giles' parish. In the neigh-
bourhood where this took plaie,'itccnrding to the usual spirit of
exaggeration, the report was, that ** the child was dead, the
ftate poisonhertlyingr‘and the rest of the family suffering violently from
h

this
,
A RBROAT/1.--- A (-rise of coiiiitleinote' import.
ante to servants was tried 'here, on Monday week, before tip
Justices of Peace,, at the instanc...: of a furrn.se.rvant against his
master. The servant admitted that be had engaged himself
with the defender for tweire months, frain Martinmas last, but
alleged that his maister•gave him: leave to quit • his serviee'ilt
master denied ; hut stated that, some tune about Christman
.4
the.eud of six months. The latter pert of this atisewahr4iies...;.tisouiatiti:
had occasion to find fault with this servant; when he told'into
rt proof, clue servant
his
that unless he attended better to his horses, its might iinug.
ndulaettell Ytogpueirtfloirim6 After"hriVwctrkto the satisfactlokof his Master; and
file defender. 4 ;arid
Ingsotth,iwngeenlsethocecseurrrvaettiltngentviietietepdwarirakterttstkiteeterr W
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I wages, for the period ins
his employer without sufficient cause,
told his master he would stay with him no longer. HI; rmis e
reminded hint of his having engaged himself for .12 months "
and refusedlo,allow him to leave his seivice. Notwithrita
leg, the servant engaged with another;- and-lodgetla coma idnt
-
against the defender for. the amount of his wa." for th.,,
months
patient investigation
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thein heal service.se, ess od after a
found that the servant had•fbrfeited hi ziet
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An, article in the Frankfort Journa-1 of ilia
tBth ultimo, annotiuees the betrethment or tha
son of Mr. Rothschild, of Vi4mita to the (laugh-
ter of Kr. Rothschild in Lood‘in. The marriage
eeremonyis to be celebrateil at. Frankfort In Lila
autumn.

Tlitt. LO•N'DON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Rx&ucts from the Morning Papers) Aug. 17.

[MOII N 11.44 1,03T1
• . The .Eloile of Sunday, and. all the otber.Paris,
journals to, the 1 6th inst., reached us last night:
by Express. They contain intelligence which
would dispel, in some measure, the gloom cast
vver the. Greek cause by the fall of Ipsara, if it►.
etaternents could be implicitly believed. It isj
calif rived, it is true, by similar accounts in the
Girman Papers, which also arrived yesterday,
bin the more sincerely we wish it to prove cor
,rect, the more hesitation do we feel at trusting
those reports lest our hopes should be ultimately
diseppeinted. It is said that in the midst of
hictriumph, the fleet of the Captain Paella was'
attacked by the naval forces of ,the ilydriots
and Spezziots united, and pat to flight with
very considerable loss, the Admiral's ships itself
having received serious damage. It is also added
itcsome accounts, that after the flight of the
Turkish fleet, the conquerors turned their guns
on the Ottoman force who still occupied after
having. ravaged Ipsara, and that the de-
stroyers were themselves destroyed amidst
Ate wrecks which they had made, the flames
wbich they had kindled, and the innocent
blood which they had shed. In this case chas-
tisetnent would have been almost instanta-
neotii with guilt, and retribution would have
&Bowed on the massacres of Ipsarn, as closely•as
it did On those of Scio. Our chief hope rests on
the justice of .Providence, which is not blinded
like that of man by selfish interests. While
Christiim Monarelts calmly behold, if they do not
secretly. authorise, the butchery of a whole Chris-
tian "population, the- God of Christians treasures
Up. the blood of martyrs. ;11`o those by whom it
is"tspillpd he sends swift destruction, and of those
by whore it is pprmitted to he spilled he will one
day demand u still more awful and terrible ac-
count.

r
LTIIL: TIMP3.J
The Etvele, dated Sunday, and the other Paris
Journals of Saturday, have brought a rumour of
a signal advantage obtained by the Greeks, on
the truth of ►chich, however, we are sorry no re-
liance can be placed. It is stated, on the au-
thority of letters from Constantinople, received
-at 'Vienna by the way of 'Odessa, 'that twenty-
live sail of itydriot and Spezziot ships appeared
off Ipsara soon after the Turkish troops had
landed, and attacked and destoyed the Captain
Paella's fleet. The same story has reached us
through the Dutch papers, but still with a refer-
ence to letters from Odessa, which isnot the most
credible source for such intelligence. The Azigii.
burgh Gazette, from which both the French and
Dutch seem to have copied their accounts, judi-
‘' lously observes, that it will be prudent to await
the confirmation of this report, as it may have
been disseminated to console the Greeks and
their friends for the disastrous catastrophe of
ipsara. It is said that the King of Prussia has
resolved to appoint his brother, Prince William,
Governor-General of the Prussian provinces on
the Rhine, and that Coblentz is to be the seat
of the Provincial Government. It is to be
hoped that this arrangement will give more sa-
tisfaction to the governed than the people of
Italy have derived from the Austrian Viceroy-
ships, of which it is an imitation. The Co7lBii.
tutionnel extracts from a French Ministerial
paper the► following remarkable paragraph :
" As to the affairs of the Peninsula, their disorder
is anterior to the present organization. The last
Minister for Foreign Affairs has left to his succes-
sot only evils to be repaired in our foreign policy,
end more particularly in Spain." The closing
mice of the Funds on Saturday was, lolf. sc.
for money, and 101 f. Vic. to 30c. for the cud of
the month.

boRNING IlinAL,D.i
aturilay's Paris Papers arrived last night.
They mention some successes obtained by the
Greeks on the Continent ; but with little autho.
rity,beyond vague .rumour—probably set going
as a counterpoise to the calamitous affair of Ip-
sara.—A very singular discovery was recently
made in the Grand Duchy of Hesse ; details of
which are occasionally extracted from the Ger-
man Journals ; the affair was simply this—
ft may be recollected, that some months since
it was announced that a plot had been form-
ed—in llstlth, many plots—to assassinate the
Grand, Duke. The Consequence was, that the
Prince dreaded leaving his apartMents ; never
went agroad without a guard, and could not
be approaChed
.but by his Minister of Police.
.-..Several persons were thrown into soli-
tary dungeons, and many, despairing of obtain.
ing justice, hemmed in as the Prince was, released
therfiselves.by suicide. The whole duchy was in
a state of suspicion and terror, the more alarming
that no.motive was assigned for the supposed de.
sigas of ,the assassins. At length the truth came
out in a most revolting discovery. The Director
of Folic° himself—a Boron Manger, was the
contriver of all the plots, the. accusations,
imprisonments, and deaths, as the means of
o l,taining otpney for " Aecret service," w hich,
its fart, he . wasted •in the prodigality of
his: private expences.—Justice has .at length
real4ed fre has been tried, condemn-
s*, publicly exposed on the pillory, and
dreo .of a common cortyl,ct,,.to the
rt .forass of -iipagewherg, there to he ittcArcerated.
-741, was with difficulty that an escort of gens.
• dilTnei,fornterly the, instruments of his elseinble
tltitony, could protect, hire on his way from the
"o!geence of:the peasants and ;villagers, gene-
ral 'lO inured and terror excifrd. by his,Octs as
'l4/nister ref Police. The Prince once more sleeps
sound, .and walks abroad _fearlessly among his

•
Liffitw Tthtts.j
Ifis Majesty's Steam packet Lightning was yes-
ierday arrilfftm d kit PUrtittliOnth
with Gv
op lleil rltit aintatoes fro A igiers, pow-,
municntiog tho termimitiosi of hociiiitii.s hejsitsvit
that Po wt.( 4111fi the nri Nri /Al PorceN, pa r.
ticiflara re,eotpectefil to Appprit iti this nightis Oa.
Z4!((.Yire.uttilerstaiid Sir if arty Noeie'stilimitgliei

tare dated the 28th of Ju)y, and. that he states, that
lhaving on the 24th placed 'his squadron in their
proper positions for an attack. on the town of Al-
giers, he was about to commence the action, when
a negociation began, which terminated on the
following day, by the Dey's stibmitting to the
conditions proposed by the Admiral. One of
:these conditions is stated to have been the
signing of a Declaration which has been trans.
witted to this country by the Lightning. We
are happy to add, that although some shots and
shells had been tired, no lives were lost. Three
of the smaller vessels only are ordered home.

[BRITISH PRESS.)
It will be seen, on reference to the French
and German papers received yesterday, that it
' was reported at Odessa, on the 124th ult., that in-
telligence had reached the English Legation at
Constantinople, that a Greek fleet of 26 vessels,
from Hydra and Spezzia, had avenged the mas-
sacre of I psara, by one of those brilliant naval ex-
ploits which have shed such lustre on the Greek
mariners, in. their struggle with their barbarous
enemies. If this news be confirmed, the triumph
of the cross will he assured ; and, unless the
subtle and selfish . policy of Russia should
interfere, we may look forward to the rapid de-
cline of the,power of the crescent in Europe, and
the substitution of a rational system of govern-
ment over those fine provinces, in accordance
with the spirit of the times and the wants of the
people. if the Turkish fleet under the Capitan
.Pacha.,should ,be destroyed, the last IMpe of the
Sublime Porte will be extinguished. It will be
beyond the feeble and decaying resources of
the Grand Sultan to make another effort for the
recovery of his loin dominion over the. Greeks :
his energies, whatever they maybe, must be re.
served for his defence against the new dangers
that will grow up around his fading greatness.—
The civilized world will rejoice at the fall of an
Empire which has a lw;iys retained, in unmitigated
fury, that hatred of Christianity, and contempt
of the arts and sciences, which characterized its
ferocious origin. We shall look with eagerness
for the confirmation of this report, which, we
trust, will prove more worthy of credit than, we
regret to say, some previous accounts from that
quarter will warrant us in stating that it actually
deserves. _mu.—