The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-03 00:00:00

TO THE EJ)ITOR OF THE SUN.

sea, •
lisvto, within' the interval of a very few days,
read in your Paper of two persons having died by
intoxication, and having once had the haporx•s,
of removing its effetts in a very
,alarming case,. 1
trouble you with a statement of the case, as I am
inclined,. from the circumstances,. to believe, that
the two persons above :alluded to might Lye been
re Covered, and hope. that ,in similar cases the me-
thod I pursued may be as eft-eau:a as I found, it.
It is not, it cannot be my idea. to lessen any of the
horror of the Viet:, by obviating any of the danger,.
Vide, in any shape, has terrors strong enough be.
fore it, 'and it would be Morality little understood,
and Christiantiy still less, not to endeavour to re.
needy the corporal evil, The error will come be.
fore its only poo,er judge in due time.
Some time ago an innkeeper's;boy„ abOut fifteen
,years old, sent nearly,a distance of two miles with
a cart, to fetch a vesseLof spirits, took With him
another of
,eight years old, to accompany
Upon their return, the elder tapped the cask, and,
probably to prevent discovery, by making the
younger in some degree an -accOmolice, 'forced him
to drill largely of the spirits. When within half
'a mile of the town to which they were returning,
the elder buy found that his companion appeared
lifeless,_ and supposing him so, the villain dropt
him out of the cart upon the common, drove hoine
with the cask, and then ran away. What became
of him I know not., Fortunately for the yoUnger
boy,. a Gentleman at a distance moticcd the transac.
tion, made up to the pTace, and had the boy brought
to his friends. , As Soon as I was informed of what
had happened, it occurred to me, that the means
used for the resuscitation of drowned persons.(which
providentially I had for the. 'first time read but a
very short time before) might be of service, and
his friends permitted tats to make the trial. I found
him in bed, but in.his clothes; the body Was Warm,
but the extremities were cold, the face pale, and
the lips livid; the breathing, if any, not pereepti.
ble. I had the bed Immediately. warmed, and the
boy pia in bed, the feet and handi well rubbed with
hot, flannels, and Oleo wrapped in them and co.
vered. I. rubbed the spine and chest. also with hot
flannels, and then. the spine with spirits of harts.
horn, in hopes of agitating the lungs. Not being
able thus to produce any sign of feeling, I dipped
a, feather in the spirits of hartshorn, and introduced
it into. his nostrils; but this not exciting any sen.
sat,ion, I dissolves! some volatile salts in the harts_
horn, forced open his mouth. with some difficulty,
and-poured, a little down his throat, and dipping the
feather in this mixture, worked it in his nostrils,
when to my.extatatiOn, he stewed, by a slight and •
momentary contraction' of the mouth and nostrils,
a symptom. of animation, and on repeating the ap.
plication, an evident 'nausea. I poured a little m' ore
down his, throat, ,which
,s'ompleted the nausea in
a little time he vomited, and threw up a consider.
able quantity of green liquid matter ; his natural
warmth•and colour returned ; he opened his eyes,
and looked about him, but seeming inclined to sleep;
and being so far recovered, I judged it better to
let hied sleep, having now no farther apprehensions.
The next day he was (thank God) pettedly well.
Observatioris on this case will not be required
from one who is not a medical man. One, Loa 4viri
may not be improper, and that is, that I am now
of opinion, that I lost time in rubbing the body,
and should have endeavoured as soon as possible to
excite the nausea and vomiting, and would there.:
fore recommend this to be the immediate object, as
soon as any one so afFetted is laid in a warm bed ;
and, as things of this kind cannot be made too plain,
will subjoin the result in.a small formula. •
To recover persons in danger by drunkenness:—
Let the person in danger be laid in a warm' bed and
if the feet and hands he cold, let them he rubbed.
smartly, and wrapped in warm flannels. Dissolve
smelling salts in spirits of hartshorn, anti pour a
tea.spootilul at a time, every five minutes, down the
throat ; take a little of the same mixture and dip
a feather in it, anti pot it up the nostrils, and work
it in them, By these means, if he can be made to
vomit, he will probably recover. .
1 am, Sir, &c,

A CONaTAN't XEADLIFt.

On the rgth inst. an impprtant cause was tried
before the .Sheriff Depute of Renfrew, rand a'Ste.
cial.Jury of Landholders of the County, brought by
ARCHIBALD Sl' I v as of Elderslie, &q. against the
Lord Provost, Magistrates, and C,unsel of GlasgoW,
the Parliamentary Trustees on the river Clyde. Mr,
Sett Ks, complained, that, by tracking )oats on the
side of the' river, his.grounds had been injured, the
,beauty of his parks, watki, and policy spoiled, and
he claimed damages to the amount of itti
15riads. The Magistrates Maintained that the
Clyde was a put tic river, rot a :pri•-untt ;
that they ' had a right to make the tracks alluded
to for the public' benefit, and, that 'Mr. Si'' kis had
nut sacred the &huge he 'complained of; hut; on
the contrary, he had received an additional quantity
of lamf,from the operations on the river. : After
the examination of witnesses was concluded, the
Shrriff Depute summed up the evidence in a candid
and impartial manner: The. Jury returned a ver-
dia, finding, by a .plutality at •vOices, the Trustets
liable to Mr. Smits,. and his heirs, in the sum of
.Dire kunefred-aoid
,fifty poled: per annum, during- the
time that tracking vessels by horses Upon the river
Clyde, by means ;of a path along his landi, shall, be
continued'by the Trustees ; besides expencea.

SIIOCKINC OCCURREArCE.

Vs: have been able to celle4l a more detailed
account of the shocking occurrero•e bid] took
place at a Public.hOuse, near Vauxhall Turnpike,'
on Monday la and which we noticed in our Paper
of yesterday. Upon the authenticity of the following
particulars we can confidently rely :—About four
I o'clock on I'Vlond:ty afternoon, a man, apparently
about thirty-five years of age, went into the par.
lour of the Three Goats Public house, not far troin
Vauxhall Gate, where he sat for sortrie time, with.
I out calling far anv refreshment, anti 'walked out
without speaking to any one; he 'soon after re.
turned, and called for a pipe of tobacco, which
he paid for. The tobacco was carried to him by a
woman of the name of Ann Yvon, about forty
Years of .age, and who acts as servant in the house:
on her return to the bar, after delivering the pipe
ollabacco, she requested liar Mistress to go into.
-the parlour, and ask the Gentleman if he wanted
any thing to drink ? this Mrs. Sad (the Landladd
declined• doing, saying, if .he wanted any liquor,
'he might ring the bell. However, the servant again
intreated her to go, saying, titere appeared some.
thing so :strange about him, that she wished her
Mistress' ta go and ice him. Mrs. Sad complied,
and went towards the parlour to see the stranger,
hut, fortunately for her, herattention was arrested
by a man who spoke to her at the door, and to
answer whom she was obliged to pass the parlour.
At this instant the .onfottunate Maniac rushed
from the parlour, having Wit throat much cut
(supposed to have been 'dope with a small penknife
which lie held -.in his hand), and, unperceived by
any one, made his way through the tap.rootn, to
the bar, where he :found the female servant, Ann
Young, alone, WhOm he instantly stabbed in the
throat twice, and then knocked, her down with
his list. On her 'attempting to rise, he plunged
the knife into her shoulder, and on quitting her,
seized a poor old man, of the' name' of Thomas
Sutherland, who has for many years acted as ostler
to Mr. Sad, 'and .struck him with great violence
on the temples, when, in one of his blows, the
knife, which he held, entered the head of the
old man, who fell to the ground. This last aft of
violence was committed in the presence of nine or
ten men, who were sitting in the tap-enom with
Sutherland, yet none of theni ever heard or saw
the outrage etnrouitteol at the bar on the poor
woman.' After striking Sutherland to the ground,
he made for the door, where Mrs. Sad was still
standing, engaged in conversation, and at that
time unacquainted with what had happened in
the'house-; when she perceived that the pof3?iti'oate
man was bleeding copiously at the hick, lie made
an, attempt to stab her, and also struck at the :man
she. was in conversation with,• both of whoni he
providentially' missed.. He ran off, and was followed
by one Joke, Who had Witnessed' what passed in the.
tap.room, 9, Jake's overtaking hiM, the Maniac
furiously turned wood, seized him, and unfortunately
succeeded in plunging the knife into his shoulder,
and wounded him so severely ax to oblige , him
to let go his bold. The Maniac being stab at .
betty, ranged : about the road, endeavonting to
stab every person that came in his tt'Ay ; but
did not go fir ftom the house whence he fog
set out. In. this tnisehievous and dangerous
state
,he continued for some Elate, there being no
individual that would Venture to seize him.; at
last, the persons who assembled Were obliged to
resort to stratagem to secure him. A Oentlemm
on horseback made a feint of attach:4l'k in t
order to attract his alteration, as, (tarn the &Ivan.
Cage of being mounted, ~he'cotilal eto.ilv elude hiM ;
whilst others, armed With large sticks, kept advan.
cing from different iliteetions towsrds.ltim, selierai
of whom he put to the tour ; he sva, how'ever, at
last brought to the groOnd,by a man' who attacked
him with a large birwitn„ which ha thrust into liis
face, and succeeded in throwing him down : great
precaution and much force were obliged to. be: used
to wrench the knife from his hand. On being car,
tied to the Puhlie,hotise, he was asked, what he
could mean by Making such shocking attempts on
the lives of innocent persons P ,And the only.an„
ewer: that could be extorted frato him was, that he.
meant to Rill them all, The state of the unfartu.
-nate persOns, who suffered, is as , Ann
Young, wounded twice in her throat (oat ot which
wounds his severed the wind. pipe), and stabbed in
the shOti!der ; little hopes are entertained by, 'the
Faculty of her s
recovery • she is attended by four
Surgeons. Thomas Sutherland, the old man, is
likely to recover, .0100 he coutinues,very ill.
Thomas Juice, who was wounded in the arm, is out
of danger, but he will he deprived of the Iffif it
for a considerable time.

From papers found in the Maniac's' pocket, his
name appearsio.be Charles 111EKte. There was a
Letter from the Sick and Wounded Office, dated
the icyh c,t j inuary, 134, informing him, that
the Board were of opinion, that his, ability as a
Surgeon, entitled him to a better site.ttion in the
Service than char which he held (which was Mare
on board the Virgivie Frigate) ; and that they had
been pleased to promote him to be Surgeon's First
Mite on Wald the Urricorn, third rate. This Com-
mission, which bore date 9th January, t 804., was
found in his pocket. He was, last night sent to St.
Thomah's Hospital, and,an expalation is entertain-
cd of his recovery.

GIRTdI.
On the 16t inst. Mrs. Kahrs, of ludd-place East, Som.
risers Town, ola Si*.n

MARRIIfD.

Yesterday, at Kensington, by thzV. Seth Thompson,
Charles Thomysiin, son,of the tomer,. to Miss Anne
Thomson, Set.Utiti (141411tet ot Frederick Thotnion, of the
same'place.•
00 Saturday the rctli ult. at Mary-le-bone, j:rmet Thom.
owl, Esti, late ot f awilica, to Miss Anne Thomsoo, of tit,:
same I siand. •

x)lEn.

On' the ist -at iti; house in Upper" Cower.street,
itgtAt 71 lorinerly.ittr 'eminent Solicitor
Syinontl'h-iito.