The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-26 00:00:00

SAMPSON PERRY, ESQ.

Further Particulars.)
On Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, an In-
quisition was held before T. STIRLING, Esq. Co-
roner, at the Albion, Vernon-place, Bloomsbury,
on the body of SAMPSON PERRY, Esq., a gentle-
man who formerly was connected with the public
press, in the situation of proprietor and editor.
It appeared from the evidence that he had latterly
become rather deranged in circumstances ; but
although very considerably in debt, his creditors
entertained the highest opinion of him : he was
obliged to go into Whitecross-street prison, and
while he remained there his affairs were placed
in a way of settlement, and on Tuesday last he
was ordered to attend in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court. Ou his way to Westminster for that pur.
pose, the turnkey who accompanied him allowed
him to call and see his wife, an aged Jady, living
in Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, where he
had held a house for twenty-two years. Having
taken some refreshment, he proceeded to the Court%
and no opposing creditor appearings he was declar-
ed entitled to his discharge. He returned from
the Court, in exceedingly good spirits, to South.'
ampton-street, merely to dinner, as the officer who
accompanied him was ordered to take him back
to prison, from whence, on Wednesday, he would
have been discharged, had he lived. Mrs. Perry
had prepared some dinner, to which he sat downy
laughing and making some humorous observation
but just as he was conveying some food to his
mouth he fell back in his chair, exclaiming%
" Lord have mercy upon us !" and instantly ex
pired. Surgeons were sent for, but of no avail,
the vital spark had fled ; and on examining the
body internally, it was discovered his death was
occasioned by the rupture of the main artery of
the heart. He was 78 years of age, and a Gen-
tleman stated to the Jury that his life was full
of vicissitude : he had been opulent, and ex-
tremely poor ; he had had friends, and was be-
reft of them ; and he had had many narrow es-
,capes with his life, in situations of imminent
peril, and times of great danger, one of which
the Gentleman instanced. During the French
revolution, he was confined nine times in French
prisons; and during the reign of Robespierre he
was confined with Thomas Paine, and was by the
ferocious assassin condemned to death, without
'the then thought unnecessary form of trial. He
escaped his dreadful doom by the following sin-
gularly fortunate circystance :—his prison or
cell doer was hung up3ri a swivel, and by the
least motion' would turn round any way.—
The custom was to mark with red chalk the doors
'of the cells of those who were condemned to death,
and his door Was' marked ; but the turnkey leav-
ing the cell in the morning appointed for execu-
tion, accidentally let the door turn round, not
observing by this motion the door was reversed,
and the " mark of death" wag inside instead of
being pUt, and before he noticed the circumstance
the officers of execution arrived, and took front
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cell not Marked, they passed it, and when the
gahiolewrasa
and Paine alive; but ere he had time to` apprise
infuriate
any person, he was shot by some of the
.
gtahinundcaenirsetrurocukndonan fidnodpizedivitrh:e
pdeor:orrye,
liberated the captives just as the monster Robes-
pierre led bleeding to the scaffold. The Jury
was
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returned verdic d
,the Visitation of
mob who had just burst open the prison, and who
distress.
God." Mr: Perry's widow is' left in very great

Tut; POST OF Ilosoi;a:--It is impossible to
set boimdi to the love of distinction, or disputes
concerning precedence; of which we have a me-
morable instance in the account given us by Col.
Murillo of a mutiny in the army in India, under
his command. Having found it indispensibly
necessary to punish some of the ringleaders, four
were ordered to be tied to the guns, and the ar-
tillery officers directed to blow them away. Just
'as the dreadfnl sentence was going to be execut-
ed, four grenadiers stepped forth, and insisted
upon it that, as they had always had the post of
honour, they were strictly entitled to be blown
away first ! The others, therefore,. were untied,
and the grenadiers blown away according; to their
desire !

COAL-MARKET, JULY 23.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
30 Newcastle 291
8 Sunderland -

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 25.
Amite, dam
Ditto, at Sight
Rotterdam l2 ll'
Antwerp l2 9
Hatsiburgh se a If Us.
Altonit ..... AO 3 ti Us.,
Paris,B Day's sight • ill 80 0 Us..
Ditto
Bowden's, ditto . 26 5 0 Us.
Prankforton the Main ......
Madrid
Cadiz
Rilboa 361 Effective
Barcelona
Seville ... • .
Gibraltar - 304
Leghorn
GCirbil •• • • 49 --Venice, Ital. Liv. 28 10
Malta 45 -Naples ...... .... 39
Palermti
Lisbon . ..
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s?.Oporto
RioJatteiro
ent,
Dublin .... 91 .. Cork... ~...$1,11.e4 c,,..

UV/A.ION,
Portugal Goldl in Colo.." / per Os.
Foreign Gold, in Bars` , 317 6
New Dmililnons
New Dollar&
Silver in Bar*, Standard 0 0 0

BI 11.
On Friday, the. Lady 'Benjamin Cohen, Eq., of
Great
Cumberlatithstreet, of a datlker.

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tA IE P.
On the 22d inst., at Edinip4iigh, Mr. Lewis Evans, surgeon),
London, to Miss Mqy Athilt,Ntwond daughter of the late lion.
James Atbill, of the islandsql. Antigua.

Lately, the Ile's-trend ti 'William, 111. A. Printiyal of
riftrp.
Ysliadmeyrie College, Cardiganshire, and formerlY,Fell" of
Wadharn Cone e. geratillecter
On Tuesday tut, at butllow, the Rev. T.
of Huntapill, Snrurrset, art 4 title Fellow of DaAWII Olege,.
Oxford.
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