The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-22 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 30.—We are sorry to find
that the accounts from Malaga are still less satis-
factory than those which we yesterday gave of',
of the state of the public health in Cadiz. 'I he
sickness is reported to be fast spreading all over
the town.—At Marseilles, on the contrary, all
apprehensions are completely at an end. A let-
ter of the 12th instant states, that at that date
there remained but one convalescent in the Laza-
retto. The late regulations are strictly enforced.
Two vessels from the coast of Spain, with a num-
ber of passengers, had been refused admittance.
A Danish ship, from the same quarter, having met
with a similar denial, and the number of hands
left on board (the master and three men only)
being probably insufficient to navigate her, she
ran ashore at no great distance from the hajbour.
The men were saved, and the ship was burned.
OCT. 81.2—Deaths, of the yellow fever, at.
Port St. Mary's, from the 21st to the 23d Octo-
ber, 22. Cases on the last mentioned day, 535.
—Deaths, of the yellow fever, at Xeres, also from
the 21st to the 23d, 6. Cases on the last men-
tioned day, 28.—Deaths, of the yellow fever, at
San Lucar de Barrameda, on the 21st and 23d,
3. Cases on the last mentioned day, 2; besides
2 suspicious ones.—From Lebrija, no later ac-
counts than those we have published.

NOVEMBER 1.

MALAGA, Ocroarn 28.—We regret exceed-
ingly to say, that the fever in this place has
broken out with increased vigour, and there ap-
pears no hope of its being got under at present.
Trade continues, of course, completely at a stand.
A printed return of the sick and deaths in the
Lazaretto, on the 27th, states the number or the
former to amount to 24 only, and that of the
latter to 3. According to the same paper, there
were, at that date, but five suspicious cases in
Malaga.—The daily deaths at Tortosa on the
first ten days of October, were from 60 to 70 ;
and the total number of victims to the. 27th of
the preceding month had amounted to 7,000.—
Seventy individuals had . been carried off by the
fever at Mequinenza, by the latest accounts ; 12
continued on the sick list, and 24 were in a state
of convalescence.—At Asco, seven had died out
of eight, who had caught the disorder.—ln Agui-
las, five had died from the llth to the 13th, 14
were returned sick, and five considered as conva-
lescents.—The suspicious cases in the suburb of
Seville, on the 16th, amounted to 25. Both the
patients and the persons living in the same houses
have been removed to the Lazaretto. A false re-
port having spread at Alcanez, on the' 14th
last month, that the Militia intended to plant
the Tree of Liberty in the principal square, the
Town Council was compelled by the mob to
disarm the 26 individuals who composed the ob-

noxious corps ; which having come to the Civil
Governor of Arragon,his Excellency on the 17th
informed the Council, that satisfaction must be
given to the Militia, for the affront they had re-
ceived, in order that they might continue to dis-
charge the important duties laid upon them by
the laws.

FlRE.—Tuesday night, about nine o'clock, a
destructive fire broke out in the workshop of
Mr. Willis, carpenter, at the corner of Wood-
street and Church-street, opposite Spitalfields
Church. The house was built on a very large
scale, and was, about twenty years ago, the
Three Tuns Tavern ; but the Magistrates re-
fusing to renew the license, it was shut up for
a length of. time, till it was taken by the fa-
ther of Mr. Willis, who divided it into three
houses, only separating one from the other by
a slight wooden partition, instead of a party
wall, whereby the ravages of the flames were
greatly accelerated. Two of the houses were let
in tenements to different poor families, and the
other was occupied by Mr. Willis and his family ;
the whole of the former have lost every article

they possessed, and are now in the greatest
distress r Mr.. Willis's loss is very consider-
able, not hiving saved an. atom of furniture, on
account of the impetuosity of the fire. One Man,
named .Squires, who lodged on the first floor, over
the workshop, jumped out of window, and hap-
pily received little or no injury. The three
houses were entirely destroyed. Mr. Willis was
not insured ; he was SeCretary to the Sicilian So-
ciety, and was in possession of documents rela-
tive to the Society, which were consumed. "The
greatest outrages were perpetrated by a most
formidable gang of thieves.

Yesterday Osnortism, the Birmingham Radical,
having undergone the punishment (twelve mouths
imprisonment) in the House of Correction, Cold-
bath-fields, for publishing CARULCS Republican,
was discharged, having entered into the required
securities.
Yesterday afternoon, ANN CRIPPLF, a girl
about four years of age, whose parents reside in
Duke's-court;Drury-lane, in the absence of her
mother, went to amuse herself at Waterloo Bridge ;
she proceeded down the steps, and her bonnet
falling into the water, she, in endeavouring to
take it out, overbalanced herself, and fell bead-
foremost into the river ; an alarm was instantly
made, and some watermen procured drags, and
dragged for the body, but up to a late hour yes-
terday evening, it was not found.
An action for breach of promise of marriage,
in which Miss Margaret Adams, of Kilfinan, was
plaintiff, and the Reverend Mr. Cozens, defend-
ant, was disposed of on Saturday, in the County
Court-house, judgment having gone by default,
and a writ issued to the Sheriff to assess damages.
The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a ver-
dict of 2251. with 6d. costs. The daniages were
laid in the pleadings at 10001.—(Cork Chronicle.)

EXECUTION AT ABERDEEN.

On Friday last George Thom, convicted at the

last Circuit Court of .fusticiary at Aberdee❑ of
murdering by poison William Mitchell, his bro-
ther-in-law, residing at Burnside, in the parish
of Keig, suffered the awful and ignominious pu-
nishment due to his crime, in front of the jail in
this city. The circumstances of this extraordi-
nary and atrocious case were of an aggravated
nature, and attracted the attention of the public
at the time in no ordinary degree. It is, there-
fore, doubtless in the recollection of our readers,
that Thom attempted the destruction of a whole
family, with which he had lately connected him-
self by marriage, in order to get the money,
and other property, of which he knew them
to be possessed, or to which the branches of the
family had recently succeeded. To effect this
horrible purpose, he found means of introducing
poison into their victuals,in consequence of which
William, the younger brother, after great suffer-
ing, died ; while the other brother-in-law, and
two sisters, who gave evidence on the trial, after
being reduced to a state of pain and debility, un-
der which they still labour, were merely saved
from falling; also victims to the ruthless design of
their unworthy relative, by the accidental circum-
stance of having ate sparingly of the poisoned food,
so that the medical aid, though late resorted to,
was so far effectual in bringingabout their recovery.
The unfortunate man, as well on his trial as after-
wards, and in the face of the strongest circumstan-
tial evidence, solemnly denied the _crime for
which justice had condemned him to suffer. To
this he appears, after receiving sentence, to have
been more strongly prompted by a vain hope

had entertained of the interest of a family

of distinction, which he had strongly solicited,
being used in his favour. But being soon in-
formed, that the atrocity of the crime, which
had been sufficiently proved against himn, must
forbid any interference in his case, he appear-
ed to open his eyes to a sense of his situation.—
He thus appeared, in a becoming frame of mind,
to receive with unfeigned humility and penitence,
the solemn admonitions, and to profit by the sa-
lutary instructions, of the Reverend Mr. Thom,
the Ordinary of te prison, and of the Reve-
rend Dr. Kidd, in their unceasing and zealous
attention for his spiritual welfare and improve-
ment. While thus seemingly penetrated with a
pungent sense of his guilt, he wrote a certificate
in vindication of his wife, from any participation

of his crime, and afterwards addressed a letter
to the Mitchells, expressive of his deep regret
for the offence he had committed against them,
imploring their forgiveness, and begging they
would receive his wife with affectionate regard,

as their sister, altogether free from blame. It was
about this time, and on Stinday the 4th instant,
when his sons, his daughter and nephew, came
to take a solemn farewell of their unhappy pa-
rent and relation. The scene was painfully dis-
tressing to all %I. ho witnessed it, and the piercing
lamentations of his afflicted family were truly

heart-rending. in this solemn and trying
hour, when the mind, subdued by a sense of
guilt, might be expected to be laid open before
its :Maker, a circumstance occurred, affording a
striking proof of lamentable hypocrisy on the
part of the unhappy criminal ; for while he open-
ly maintained the same self-abasement and resig-
nation to his fate he had for some time mani-
fested, he meditated by self-destruction an es-
cape from the ignominy that awaited him. At
the moment Of embracing one of his sons, whom
he saw before him, in all .the agony of poignant
grief such a parting was calculated to pro-
duce, he slipped a written, note into his hand,
wherein he expressed his earnest wish that he
might speedily convey to him such pois-on as
might be most effectual in depriving him of life.
The answer, in a letter from the son to the un-
happy father, was an exhortation to him, that
he should submit to the punishment awarded

him by the injured laws of his country, and
apply to the Throne of Grace for the only
true consolation which could support him in

the greatest distress and at the hour of death.
information of this last effort of despair being
communicated to the proper authorities; two. men
were placed in his room, and by turns two others
always remained with him, until the day of his
execution arrived.—About two o'clock, on Fri-
day, the criminal was brought down to the lobby
of the court-house, where his shromd was put on
and his arms pinioned. After singing a portion
of the 103 d Psalm, and au earnest and suitable
prayer by Dr. Kidd, the prisoner was support-
,ed to the scaffold by the two clergymen, and,
after an impressiVe prayer, by the Rev. Mr.
Thom, the criminal, who appeared to be a good
deal agitated, was- led to the drop, which fell
about five minutes from three o'clock, and he
died without a struggle. 'Tie crowd hich at-
tended was immense,- and drew an expression of
astonishment from the, prisoner, when he first
appeared ; but the greatest order was observed.
The unfortunate man was, it is believed, born in
the parish of Alford, of respectable parents, who
gave him a good education. lie was bred to the
trade of a blacksmith, but did not follow that
profession regulwly, having afterwards taken a
small farm. and dealt a little in cattle ; but in
that, as in his transactions generally, his cha-
racter was rather that of an artful cunning
man. Of no mean capacity, however, his uncom-
mon shrewdness and sagacity was well known
to the people in his neighbourhood, by whom
he was looked up to for advice and assistance, in
cases of difficulty ; and, with such talents to carry
him respectably through life, without the temp-
tation of-poverty, his ignominious exit, at the ad-
vanced age of sixty-one years, affords an awful
example of the danger of allowing covetousness
to take possession of the heart.—(Edinburgh
Courant, A. ov. 19.)

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-Tuesday afternoon four
young men named T. FENNEIt, WILLIAM WOR.-
DER, ROBERT CHILDS, and WILLIAM BLACK,
were unfortunately drowned in the Mill Riser
at Staines, Middlesex, by the overturning of the
boat in which they were rowing for pleasure. It
is supposed they were rather in liqour at the
tirne7 playing tricks with each other.