The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-07 00:00:00

DUBLIN, AUGUST 4.

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A trial deeply involving the property and character of Mr'
Dawson, brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel, has taken
Right
at the Assizes for Londonderry, and the friends of the 'Pa
Hon. Gentleman will be glad to learn that the result has save_
the one, and completely vindicated the other. It appears fr°l`!.
the proceedings that he was sued for penalties to the enormoil,
amount of 110,0001., upon various alleged charges of briber);
at the election in which he offered himself as a candidate f°
the county of Londonderry, immediately after the passiug
the Reform Bill. The plaintiff in the cause was a comp-2°f,
labourer, named Miller, and it was elicited in evidence ths"
he was put forward as the mere instrument of a party,
at vrh°
after having formerly supported Mr. Dawson with the gres,t.
zeal, now turned round upon him in the most vindictive ePir!,
of hostility. The declaration contained no less than 21*
counts, comprising 22 distinct and specific charges; but be
fore the evidence for the plaintiff was gone through, ther.
dwindled down to six, and not one of them could be sustaine.
After a lucid and impartial charge from Chief-Justice
Doherty, the Jury retired, and returning in the course of a few
minutes, they found a verdict for the defendant, with 6d• casts'
to the great satisfaction of a crowded court.
The public will recollect the legal proceedings that took
place some time since, in the case of Miss O'Doherty, of Gal-
way, who, after having been seduced and cruelly abandoned
by a young British officer, named Barrow, ultimately
e'
away and fell a victim to the consciousness of her shame. H
father, a most respectable man, brought an action for seclae;
tion against him at the present Assizes, and'on Thursday lay
recovered damages to the amount of 3001., with 6d. costs--; a
poor reparation for the dreadful injury inffictee upon biro At
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a parent, but some satisfaction to the feelings of an indigna°

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held *at the
East India House, when the Right Hen. Robert Grant too.
the usual oath on being appointed Governor of BornhaY:
Mr. Grant afterwards dined with the gentlemen in the diree
tion at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street.
On Wednesday Admiral Napier and M. Meoaiza;
bal went from Falmouth as passengers in the African steam e/
for Lisbon ; they took with them a considerable amount
specie. •
MR. SALT'S MEMOIRS.—The chief interest of
this new work arises from Mr. Salt's mission to Abyssinia, and
his subsequent long residence in Egypt, as Consul-Genera.;
When we examine his conduct (he was only 25 years of age,
during his mission to the Ras of Abyssinia at Antalo, his Pre-
sence of mind on several important occasions, his industry jilt
collecting specimens of natural history, &c., we certainly I°s
allow that few men could have acquitted themselves more ere' •
ditably. This is, in our opinion, one of the most interesting;
as well as important, biographies published during the pre
season.
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FUNERAL OF EARL BATHURST AND -
INTERMENT OF HIS LORDSHIP'S LATE SON, THE HON. C01•
SEYMOUR BATHURST.—The funeral of the late Earl Bather
took place on Tuesday morning at Cirencester, which t°ls
the remains of his Lordship reached on Saturday evening:
from London in a hearse drawn by six horses, and under
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management of Mr. Woelfit, of Fleet-street, undertaker to tn
family. The solemn ceremony was rendered more affecth'
and impressive, through fhe circumstance of the remains c'r
his Lordship's late son the Hon. Colonel Seyrnell •
Bathurst, who died in London about April or May last, has'
ing been dsinterred on the occasion of his Lordship's deatb'
from the vault in which they were deposited in the new cenie;
tery of the Harrow-road, and now borne to be interred in til
family vault in company with those of his honoured and neuel,
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lamented parent. The utmost respect was paid to the moor/
of his Lordship by the inhabitants of Cirencester. The re-
mains of the Noble Earl, and those of his son, lay in state ell,
Monday in the hall of the family mansion, and were seen 1)7
many thousand persons, some of whom had travelled consider'
able distances to witness the imposing ceremony. The lolly
of the hall, in the centre of which the coffins lay, were deeP
hung with black, on which the arms, and various orders cd.
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which the Noble Earl was a member, were richly paint
At six o'clock on Tuesday morning the death bell of the Al w„.' •
Church began to toll, and towards nine o'clock, the hour 811.
pointed for the funeral, a large body of gentlemen, together •
with numbers of his Lordship's tenantry, all in deep mourn
the
and amounting to nearly 300, assembled on the lawn a 1
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mansion, for the purpose of paying a last tribute of respect 0
his Lordship' is memory, in following his remains to the tomb
the character of mourners. All the arrangements being Nl-
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the funeral pracession proceeded towards the Abbey Clinred
The corpse of the Hon. Seymour Bathurst preceded that „-•
the Noble Earl. The pall bearers were Lord Thynne,
Lawrence, Mr. Cripps, M.P., Mr. Edwards Cripps,'
Crovine, and Mr. Warner. The chief mourners were big
Lordship's three sons—namely, Earl Bathurst _ (late T„',%,
Apsley), the Hon. William Bathurst, and the Hon. and I`..e,
Charles Bathurst. On arrival in the church the solemn r''tee
,
were performed, and the coffins were lowered to their last re,s.re
ing place in the family vault. His Lordship's remains
deposited in an elm coffin, placed within one of lead, wlired
was encased in a splendidly-wrought oaken one, richly coved,with black velvet, and most tastefully ornamented. His L°r t '
ship died in his 72d year. The Hon. Col. Seymour Bath`-et
died in his 39th year. Earl Bathurst, soon after the interlece
of his noble parent and brother, entered his travelling earria°
and returned to London.
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CORONER'S INQUEST.—An Inquest was hula 0$
tier,
child at the Old Justice, Bermondsey, on the body ter,
child which was .drowned in a butter-firkin containing vi! in-
The mother went out to a neighbour's house, leaving he' ect
fant asleep on the bed in her chamber. The mother retur the
in about ten minutes, and was surprised at not seeing:4,6
child where she left it ; but, upon examination, she diseefeil
that it had rolled off the bed into a buttar firkin about halfe-
of water which stood at the foot of the bedstead. She ilpent
diately took the child out, and, according to her own stater
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before the Jury, " smacked its bottom," thinking at the hod,
that it had gone into the firkin of its own accord. The child,
however, not having made any noise when the punishinel shod
inflicted caused the mother to look attentively at it, vibe., Isi
discovered that it was dead to all appearance. She thZetor,
it on the bed, tied up its under jaw, and ran off for a tillat its
who, on his arrival, pronounced that it was dead, and t water.
death was produced in consequence of immersion in the.,d was
The Jury, in pronouncing their verdict, " That the sone
found drowned by its mother in the butter firkin," at Wbibited
time observed that the mother of the deceased bad C. water
very great incaution in having a large vessel containing
so near the bedstead where she left her offspring on
home herself,

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