The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-11 00:00:00

MURDER IN IItANCE.

'flit' following is an extract of a ietler from
l'i'd,neiennes. tinted September. 30, 1823 :
" The cl;'i herm aid of a lady of distinction, who liyed in this
to rn ,itept no Other servant, has toMmitted mniost horrid
:milder, of which I send you the following particulars:—On
the 12th of this month,. about noon, tbis girl engaged her mistress
io.gO ca look at something at the top' of the cellar stairs ; whence
abe violently pushed tier down all the stairs, followed her
ltrdiately, fell upon her, end -thrust her hand into her hand to
prevent ber crying out; then took tip a brick which lay at
naind, and heat her on the head with it till She was dead. This
.June she 'undressed her, :and left her naked; with her clothes
by her side ; then going up stairs, she changed her dress,
lift the house, and went to 'Vespers,. foul afterwards walked
the remainder of the afternoon, telling those who, spoke
•tO her, thus tr esti was gone alone, to a consecrae
rion tit the Curate Ontiain's, at a village about a
I?ague distance 3-.-.:thaf she intended to pass 'hy the side of
sac' Schelde, and. that *hr was to go to her the next day,
told carry her watch and jewels. In the evening site tqtUrpe4.l
.iiii7lll4,Went Into :dui 'cellar; and cut the body in pieces, sepa-
r"4l3s the head, arms, anrl legs. . Next morning early she car-
ried the head.. arms, and body, under her riding hood, about a
(i",gter of a league from the toan and threw them ;into the
and next day, towards evening, did the same with the
other partS. However, nn Cie 13th, she carried her mistress's
water ar;tl a part of her jewels to the Curate of Onnain, as it' she
had expected to have found her mistress there. She expressed
gr.l3t uneasiness at her not being there, and went away under
.f.%tence of going to sok for her,lea vim( they/mei and the jewels.
in Sunday, tit! 11th,she went for them again, and carried them
to :!er mistressAsister, seeming greatly alarmed at winit might
1. liveatne of nriv,it lady. no mune day an arm and some other
Huts of the body 'were found in the Schelde, and this wretched
t.-eature was the first to Kay, " they doubtless must be those of
le.'r mistress, whit must 'have been murdered in,going to One
Strict examination having been made to the affltir,
anti, after iiml4rgtiing aeveral interrogations, the girl confessed
ht.r 'horrid clime tautly 4AS I have here:mated, and with such
i:rottni:katleest that there 1,7, isppeatanee of her having bad any
act;ornplie6t In natticipate with her inthe dreadfully meta act.
1i the trial will shortly take place, at its termination 1 will send
pia t4e particulate."

LACE: HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY

An active canvas !ISA bOlll for some days go.
ii forward fur a place under the. Corporation, which is neither
vacant, nor, we are glad to say, -now likely to become vacant ;
and *ludicrous scene wok place the other day at the-Mansion
Houk between the Lord Mayor and a few of the Candidates.
Xt. Howell, the Water Bailiff, having been for sonic time
conllned with illness to his house, the utmost anxiety Ives
expreaaed by Rome of his most particular friends about the
state of his health. Ile was even advised by them to ex.
pose himself no more to the performance of his rigorous
winter duties, but to abandon the situation altogether. For
some tint, he attributed' this proposal to an interested view;
hut their very close attention to him compelled him to'
thitik otherwise. He soon found, however, that his suspicions
were well founded. By accident the shutters of the par-
lour. windows were closed one morning in that fashion which
shows that the King of Terrors is within. Two of the warmest
friceida of poor Howell approached. but seeing that the " flag"
wui raised, they ran away in grief to inform the Lord Mayor
that the time wits at last arrived when his Lordship would-have
an opportunity of proving his friendehip ; that the Water Bai-
was at length departed this life, and that his Lordship's in-
daence would do the business for any person who shduld offer
himself as a candidate. It is unnecessary to observe that those
goademen visited his Lordship at different times, anti enema.:
Mod their claims in the most impressive manner. They even
appeared in a printed form before several MeMbers of the Court
of Common Coencil, soliciting their votes and interest for the
dtapesel of the place made vacant by the lamented death of Mr.
!Sewell, and it appeared that their printed letters had actually
road in their own, possession before they supposed he had drawn
hi* hist hreeth. The Lord Mayor, who did not relish those
rapid applications, told the candidates that he should inquire
into the truth of the report, which he-had very strong reason to
doubt, for ho had heard but a short time before that the Wa-
t.,r Bailiff' was recovering. " You may depend upon it,"
said one of theplace-hunters, " that he is dead, and those
who say otherwise are interested in suppressing the truth in
order to prevent inc from pursuing my canvass." The Lord
Mayor Immediately sent to the Town Clerk's Office to ascer-
tain Om fact, and, was sent word that Mr. Howell was much
improved in his health, and expected to be able to attend a
Ceounitteo then about to sit. Still the candidates began to
pour in. So firmly had they fixed their hopes upon thaplace.
tttit the authority of the Lord Mayor and-of Alderman Wood
'SR not credited by them. In feet nothing could convince them
their error but the evidence of their own senses, which were
at last gratified by the sight of the Water Bailiff signing his
soeifronti.-111. alluding to this .indecent hunting after places,
the Lord Mayor yesterday said he never heard of so shameful a
practice as that which not less than half a dozen: of his fellow,
tatizens had adopted. For his part he should take care to keep
4y him the printed applications of those very delicate gentle-
men, diet lei might ref use his vote to every one of them on any
figure occasion of any kind.

STOCAHOLM, SEPT. O.—Baron Nilo Gyllen.
stlirna has presented a formal claim to the Diet,
for the sum of 436,792 rix-dollars Prussian cur-
wry, which he animas to he due to his family
from the Crown of Sweden. King Charles VIII,
lend an original bond of the city of Dantzick for
15;000 marks in silver. This King was the
founder of the family of Gyllenstierna, in whose
liovsessioo the bond remained from father to son.
But Charles XII., wanting money to pay his
troops, gave a written order, dated May 28th,
Y 794, to receive this bond from Lieut.-Colonel
Saran Nils. Govanson Gyllenstierna ; and then
compelled the. City of Dantgick, by the threat
of military eiocotion, to pay him the principal
and interest, with the sum of 55,457 rix-dollars,
forrniffly promising that the family of Gyllen-
',tient* should he repaid out of the public trea-
sury. This claim has now increased to the above
toeptioned sum.