The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-01 00:00:00

WINCHESTER, Fran. 28.

The interest excited relative to this trial was very
' great, and the Court was exceedingly crowded.
Eliza Harding, stated in the calendar to be but
fourteen years of age, though she appeared to be
much older, was put to the bar, charged with having,
on the sth day of August last, administered, or
caused to be administered, a poisonous nut called
nux vomica to Edward Boyland and his family, at
the parish of All Saints, in the borough of Southamp-
ton, with intent to kill and murder them.
John Randall ,‘ as art assistant to Randall and
Sons, druggists, of Southampton; a young woman,
whom he should not know again, came to the shop,
asked for some poison to poison mice with ; witness
sold her some nux vomica, which is a nut resembling
a bean, covered with a soft velvet exterior coat, very
hard internilly, having a horny appearance, semi-
transparent, and ititernally bitter, concave on one
side and convex on the other, its properties poisonous ;
sold the person half an ounce.
Cross-examined by Mr. E. SAUNDERS—They do
not serve persons with poison without putting ques-
tions to them; always put on the packet the name
of the article, and generally the word " Poison ;" is
sure he wrote the name of the article in this instance,
and thinks he wrote the word " Poison."
James Miller lodged with the prosecutor, whose
family consisted of himself, wife, child, and witness ;
the prisoner was servant to prosecutor; witness took
his meals at the same table with Boyland arid his
wife; they used the same tea-kettle, but had different
tea pots ; on the sth of August, Boyland made the
breakfast ; witness remarked that the tea tasted
very unpleasant ; it was very bitter; the prisoner
afterwards came into the room; Boy land asked her
where she got the water; she replied, from the
pitcher; Mrs. Boyland took the kettle out of the
room; when she returned she showed me a bean,
which I afterwards ascertained to be nux vomica ;
Mrs. Boyland said, " Good Gad, here's toad's meat
in the kettle."

Cross-examined—Prisoner had lived there about
seven weeks.

James Boyland, a tailor, of Southampton--It
was the prisoner's duty to prepare the breakfast;
before breakfast, on the sth of August, the prisoner
brought up a cup into the room, which she put on
the fire; witness asked her what she had there; she
said it was something she was going to take herself;
looked into the cup, and saw it contained five beans;
left her there and went up stairs, and heard the pri-
soner say, " I'll be curst if I don't ;" when he went
down again the tin cup was put outside the fender;
made the tea in both pots from water taken out
of the same kettle; did not at first take any parti-
cular notice of the taste of the tea, until his at-
tention was called to it by Miller; the prisoner at
first denied all knowledge of it, but at last said that
it must have fallen it,, as she had some in her hands;
witness went to a physician, as he found himself
unwell.

Other witnesses gave similar testimony; but there
being some confusion in tracing the " nux vomits,"
and in some other circumstances,
The Learned JUDGE said that, probably, under
the circumstances, the Jury would think it right at
once to acquit the prisoner. His Lordship then se-
verely admonished her, and she was removed from
the bar.

As the period for the contest in Portugal
draws mote near, the stronger interest respecting it is na-
turally created on our Exchange, and this has been in-
creased by some transactions now in progress which deafly
evince that both the brothers of the house of Braganza are
possessed of more extensive resources than the world gives
either of them credit for, the origin of which, too, is enve-
loped in much mystery. It has been noticed for several
foreign post days preceding, that a large demand existed
for bills on Portugal, for which a price higher than the
current rate of exchange was readily paid. These have
since been traced to one of the moat active and zealous of
MiGuEl.'s agents in this country, and are no doubt in-
tended in aid of the means of the despot. There has been
further some inquiry in the same quarter respecting the
mode of conveying warlike stores to the Tagus, and assur-
ances given that special exemption would be obtained from
as quarantine regulations in favour of such cargoes. In
the same market and on the same sort of errand, the agents
of Don PEDRO have encountered those of his brother;
but apparently on a greater scale as to resources. Con-
tracts have been proposed, fur example, among others, for
three or four vessels of 400 tons each, to send out to Ter-
ceira. The contest, therefore, whenever it shall com-
mence, will be on a scale Worthy of the prize which is con-
tended for. How funds have been raised fur such extensive
purchases, remains, in regard to both parties, a subject of
considerable mystery. At home MIGUEL'S resources would
appear to be at. the last ebb, and there is not consequently
any other obvious solution of the difficulty than that some
of the European Powers, favourable to arbitrary forms of
government, are secretly giving their assistance to one of
the greatest ornaments of the system. With respect to
Don Panßo, there can be little doubt that his supplies are
chiefly obtained from France. It has been stated in some
of the late letters from Paris, that the whole of the loan,
of which only a portion has been raised here, would shortly
be brought forward in that market. These distant indi-
cations of the interest taken by other European Powers in
the quarrel, alter very much the view of it taken by our
merchants, and confer on it the highest degree of impo:t-
ance.— Times.

M.R. GRATTAN AND LORD GREY.—The
palm of eloquence on this great occasion was borne by two
speakers, now opposed to each other for the first time—
Mr. GRATTAN and Lord GREY. The speech of Mr.
GRATTAN was gratuitous, antithetical, and passionate; that
of Lord GREY logical, deliberative, and wise. Fortune
and the event decided in favour of the rhetorician, with a
capricious disregard of the informed and informing spirit
of the statesman. It may be collected from the general
tenour and solve particular passages of this speech, that Mr.
GRATTAN'S views were disturbed, and his imagination
fired, by the dominant vanity of making against NAPO-
LEON a rival oration to one of the most celebrated of
DEMOSTHENES against Pulur. His speech, however,
only proves the caducity of his faculties, and growing de-
pravation of his taste. The following, may be cited as an
example of jingling imtirlitsis and perverted fact :—" The
government of France is war. It is a stratocracy ; elec-
tive, aggressive, and predatory. Her armies live to fight,
and fight to live. He (NAPOLEON) reviewed the troops,
and nothing could equal the shouts of the army—except
the silence of the people. It was a case in which the army
deposed the civil government. It was the march of a
military chief over a conquered people, &e."—Dr. Lard-
ner's Cabinet Library. Life and Reign of George IL
VOl, 111.

CANTERBU RI, Feb. 25.
Wheat, white.-- 559. to 655. -- Old—. —s. to —e.
—50 s. to Ms. to
Barley, Malting 3.15. to 38s. Grinding.. 28s. to 324.
Oats . 255. to 28s. —s. to

Beans
Pease

345. to 38s. ....., Old---.... 40s. to 445.
435. to 455...,_. Grey ---.. 355. to 38s.

MANCHESTER, Feb. 25.
Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. 3d. to 9s. 6d. Red 9s. 04. to 9s. 3d.
Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 3 Oats 3 9 4 0
Beans, per Imperial quarter
Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 6 6
Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 42 0 4 0
Flour, per Sack a 2801 b

EXETER MAR
Beef (score) Bs, ed. 9.i. 6d.
Mutton 5i 0 6
Veal and t .amb—...o 6 0 7
Pork
.0 4 0 6
Geese (each) 0 5 6
(lucks 'couo!e 0 5 0
Fowls 0 4 0

KETS.—Feb. 24.
Wheat (bushel) ..Bs. od. 82.11.
Barley 6 4 9
Oats 9 2 6
Beans 5 6 6 0
Butter (Ib.)--.1 0 1 3
Eggs (12) 0 1 (1
Potatoes (peck) 6 0 7

FEMALE SOVEREIGNS.-It has fallen to the
lot of Mrs. JAstrsoN to write the Memoirs, public and
private, of those few of her sex who have wielded the
sceptre. None but a woman, perhaps, was competent to
estimate the effect which such power would have on the
female character; and yet scarcely any of the gentler sex
would have sufficient courage for the invrtigation, inas-
much as it necessarily involves the necessity for researches
lying altogether out of the class of female acquirements.
The present authoress has, however, added to the laurels
she has already won in literature by bo!dly encountering
the subject ; and the result is one of the most original and
curious works in the circle of biography.
NAPOLEON AND HIS Two WIVES.---The
conduct of a wife whose hand has been bartered for consi-
derations in which she has no part, should be indulgently
judged. NAP3LEON, however, shared with the Austrian
Archduchess glory and a throne; he tteated her with the
utmost personal kindness, and, it was said, gained her
affection. She got credit for soliciting permission from
the Congress to join him in Elba, and for entering eagerly
into this plot for her escape to France. Toe world was
grossly deceived, or, more properly, in
other instances where the ruling caste 19 concerned, grossly
deceived itself. A letter from Vienna, written by a
Frenchman in the service of the Empress, was delivered
this state as in
by a courier to LAVALETTY. The letter bore no address;
but the courier stated, from verbal instructions, who h,d
written it, and for whom it was intended. LAVALETPE
placed it unopened in the hands of NAPOLEON. The con-
, and pronounced by him
tents disclosed to him that he must no longer count on the
Empress; that she spoke of him in terms of fear and
hiraeetid'red to his private cabinet ; the
hatred ; and that she had utterly abandoned herself to the
min who was appointed her chief jailer. The letter was
without either address. or. signature, and doubts were sug-
gested of its authenticity by NaPoLEoS. It was sub-
mitted tO CAULINCOURT, who was well acquainted with
wrongs of JOSEPHINE were avenged by the pangs which
lie must, at that rnoment, have endured. He had the
social and softer feelings. Without theta he could not
athuetheanitliecg.ed -NwAprioteLrE'sON
possess the boundle,devotiou of his first wife, and the affection of her family and of his own. Without the sen-
timents of friendship he could not possess and prove so
many friends. He must
.have felt, in this recoil, with
the utmost bitterness ofdisappointment and remorse,' that
there are. human obligations. too sacred, and human feelings
too precious, to be sacrificed at the shrine of politics and
power ; and that ambition itself may be best promoted, as
it is best enjoyed, by a partnership of the heart. Had the
Emperor never discarded her who linked her fortune and her
fate with the young officer of artillery who had' nothing
but his sword," he would probably have died on the throne
of France, and not upon the rock of St. Helena
—Dr•
George IV. V
Lardner's Cabinet
111. Library. Life and 11i of
egn 01.

BIRTHS.
On the 10th of August, at Bombay, the lady of Captain Sir
Charles Malcolm, R.N., and Superintendant of the Bombay Ma.
rine, of a son.
On the 27th ult, at Newington-green, the lady of Wm, Hick-
man, Esq. of a daughter.
MARRIED.
On the 28th ult. at St. James's, Westminster, A. P. Reeve,
eldest son of the late J. I'. Reeve, Esq., of Whitley-cottage,
Berks, to Frances Ann, daughter of the late C. Bailey, Esq., of
Speenhamland, Berks,
On the 28th ult. at Homey, William Hill, Esq. of the Leigh,
county of Gloucester, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of J Junes,
Esq. of Highgate.
On the 2zith ult. at St. George the Martyr, P. Worsley, Esq.,
of Great Ormond.strect, to Anne, eldest daughter of J. Taylor,
Esq., of Bedford-row.
On the '47th ult. at All Souls, Langham.place, Mr. W. Carp-
marl, of Clifford's-inn, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. G. Pitt,
of Great Portland-street.
On the2sth ult. at St. James's, Mr. Arthur Wellesley Kinnear,
of Stonehaven, North Britain, to Louisa, widow of the late
John Spark, Esq., surgeon in the Hon. Eastl India Company's
service.

DIED.
78 th
On the
27th ult.
at Peckham-rye, John Seagood, Esq. in the
yeaof ageisOn the 27th ult. at Rugby, Warwickshire, Howard, fourtl'
son of Captain Lake, late 3d Foot Guards.
On the 26th ult. in Seymour-street, Euston-square,Major J•
M'Lean, late 3d West India Regiment.

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