The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-18 00:00:00

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.

. On Thursday last the body of a young woman
was found floating in the water Macclesfield-
' bridge, whieb crosses the Regent's canal, near Port-
land-town, sit a stan4 of rapid decomposition, and
nearly destitute of clothing. her limbs were also
dreadfully fractured, and there were so many other
marks of violenco about lier;as rt., lead to a strong
suspicion that she had first been robbed and then
murdered and direr* into the canal. On a
more minute examination,. there were found in a
muslin handkerchief, which stjil remained about her
person; some duplicates of articles she bad pledged,
which completely established the fact that she was
the daughter or a cabinet-maker named Jude, living
at No. 2, Charlton-street, Somers-town, who had
been seduced from -her home by a young man; whom
Buckeridge, the officer, under the circumstances,
thought proper to take into custody, as he Was the
last person who could be traced to have been in her
company.
On the Jury being yesterday assembled, the
following, evidence was taken :
John Jude, the father, had seen the body of a
female at the workhouse, hitt the features were so
much altered he could 'not Tecognise her as his child;
but front all the circumstances he had heard, and on
an examination of her clothes, he had no doubt of
her being his daughter. Her mother would know
her better, but she was so shocked by-losing- the
eldest of seven children in this manner, that she
could not attend. She was seduced from her home
by a young villain, who bad at last brought her to
this untimely end.
The Foreman-1)o you know a.7,,oung man named
Smith ? The, Father—Yes I do, to my sorrow. He
was the cause of all this.
The Foreinan—Ah then there can be no doubt
of the identity of the body. What is Smith? The
Father—He is.a marble mason, and works fur his
father, who lives in Little Brook-street.

The Foreman—How old was your 'daughter ?
The Father--If she had lived till the January she
would have been 18,

Tieler—FoLraesntlat;i—atuNrio'hae;
td4irdeeyo_Nuveseekes
I;erinjiutst;l 2le The
Fthleft
our home On the Ist of July last, to go into service,
as we supposed, but,the villain Smith, we have since
discovered, decoyed her' away for his own views.
He (the father). knew: they were acquainted, but
supposed no harm between them; and when she
a
left, lie came, as, lie. pretended, to take her boxes to
her new place, but he took them to a lodging he had
provided,.,.anit,, they had since been living together.
She was never from home before July last. • She
stayed. at home to
.assist her mother. Her name
was Louisa, and the last he saw her was in
Smith's -company.
(The clothes pledged with the pawnbrokers were
prodtwed and _identified by the father, as having
belonged to
.the deceased.)
A- Juror—Did this young fellOW ever desert her
The Father—She came home ill about six weeks
since, but I then supposed she- came from her place.
When her trunks were takers away, Smith said she
was going to live" -at Augusta Cottage, and as she
came home freqUently of a Sunday Ps see licy father
and mother, they had-no suspicion but that she was
in a comfortable situation. • He first suspected some-
thing Wrong about three weeks since, from the cir-
cumstance of her having borrowed a shawl- of his
landlady's daughter, and, instead of returning it in a
proper manner, it was. found thrown down the area
on the following morning. He then made some in-
quiries of young Smith about her, and he denied
having seen her. On the following Wednesday,
having reason to believe they were living together in
Little Albany-street, he watched for them all night,
and also desired the watchman to secure his daugh-
ter if he should see her. She, however, was not
seen, and being then alarmed for her safety, he
the next :day desired Smith to take him to the house
to which he had carried her trunks. Smith at
first refused to de this unless be was taken by an
officer, but he at length pointed out one house in
particular, where he said she bad beers, and there he
was at once recognized by the mistress of the house
as having been her lodger, as the husband of the
girl. This lodging they left in Septeinber last. At
another house where they called, the father saw his
daughter's boxes, which had been detained for rent.
The day the deceased returned ill to liar father's
home (six weeks since) Was the day she ;eft this
house. On her return she-told her mother she Avas
married to Smith, but en searching the books this
proved to be falSe, though it did appear that the
banns of marriage had been thrice published in the
church.

13y a Juror—Was there any thinft left in her
boxes ? The Father—No; all her things had been
pawned for her support and that of her cruel de-
ceiver..

Mr. Goodyer, a surgeon, exaniined--lie had
opened the body, and was of opinion death was oc-
casioned by drowning, and that the fractured bones
were the consequence or some inj wry received in the
-water.

By the CoitoNEß---A barge, for instance, pasPini
over her, might produce the fractures described
Mr. Goodyer—Yes, it would.
At the desire of several of the jurymen, Smith
was brought before the Court. He, is a slim man,
and seemed but little concerned at the serious impu-
tation made on his eliaracter. Ile flippantly said
that the last time. he kiw.Louisa was on Saturday
three weeks, between eleven and tweivo at 'light;
she then accompanied him towards his own home,
in his father's house,
an"d h
whiche sheeff offered
thi
eedr
aticicoeditii
He ivas to have seen
her again the nest evening, but he did not keep his
engagement ; and from that time until this day he
never heard of her any more.
The CoRoNER-1 suppose you knew the pool
creature has been beaten and crushed to pieces ?
Smith : I never heard dit till a few hours since.

A jidror—Wasn't you living with her when her
trunks were stopped for rent?--Smith : No ; I left
her three days before, on her promising to return to
her father, or go into service. She told me that she
did not wish to return home, as her father used her
so ill.
A juror—Why did you suffer her to leave you
when the banns of your marriage were published ?
—Smith : I did not know they were published till
I accidentally went into Marylebone church and
heard our names called over. She did it without my
knowledge.
The CouoNsii.—Why did you not live with her
till she had pawned all her things ? And then, I
suppose, you were desirous of breaking off the con-
nection ? ,Sith—No, I did not. She was fre-
quently borrowing money of me.
The landlady of the father, in contradiction to
Smith's statement, that the girl was treated ill at
home, said that Mr. Jude had lived in her house
four years, and she had always found him a tender
and affectionate parent.
The father said that it was only last Saturday
night that Smith was boasting that he had deceived
two other girls in the same way he had Louisa; and
he seemed to rejoice in the ruin he had brought
upon them. _

The CORONER having directed the attention of
the Jury to all the strong points of the evidence,
they consulted for about twenty militate, and re,
turned a verdict thut--" The deceased drowned her-
self in a fit of insanity, brought on by distress and the
ill-treatment of John Smith•

On
fog that
belonging
,to au indus-
trious TEMPEST, who was taking' Care of large
premises •n i uned
in Bermondsey; on which was a tan-yard, were
viled, three children
in the act of crossing the yard together, hand in band,
man
when one of them walked into a pook of tan-pit, having
seven feet of water in it, And dragged her sisters in after
her. Two of the girls, one 13, and the other 11, extri-
cated themselves by clinging to the sides of the pit until
assistance arrived, but the youngest, a fine child of eight
years of age, was lifeless when taken out of the water....
Yesterday an inquest was held on the body, and a verdict
of " ALcidental Death" returned.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

When the bloated and abominable paper credit
system of this country had produced, in the
winter of 1825-18261 its natural fruits in a series
of frightful bankruptcies, almost unexampled
since the commercial convulsion at the outset of
the war with France in 1703, the subject of 11.
country bank-notes came under the serious con-
sideration of Parliament. The public lir.ind
being pretty well made up as to the expediency
of diminishing the issues of the country bankers,
„nd as a means towards that desirable object,
upon the propriety of bringing the 1/. notes to
a definite and speedy end, .the banking interest
of Scotland raised a hue and cry against any at-
tempt so monstrous as that of extending to their
perfect system of currency the pruning knife
which was about to be applied to .the rottenness
of English credit. Whatever failures had ?c--
curred amongst us Southrons, the north was
nocent of such ;—few or no bankruptcies Were
known in thriving and happy Caledonia. The
banks beyond the Tweed being all of unbounded
opulence, and their commercial policy one which
united the highest degree of liberality with the
most impregnable sagacity and prudence,
there was no credit given without ;mirk e.-
curity, and no taint of unwarrantable speculation
which called for a contraction of bank notes.
The Scottish press teemed with the plairsibilities
of illalagrowther and his partisans. It was a
bari:Arous tyranny in the English Government to
Impose on Scotland the wasteful necessity -of re-
sorting to a golden medium, when paper at a half-
penny per sheet would answer, because it answered
every purpose of mercantile and domestic busi-
ness ; the people of England were worn out by
so much pertinacity; the Minister alarmed by
the close cohesion of the. Scotch Members with
the Scotch banks ; and by otre means or another
the point was carried, that the paper system of
'Scotland should stand untouched, while that of
England Was to be searched and purified to the
bottom. It now appears that if there were less
inimerous failures of Scotch merchants or manu-
facturers than of English,, -in the fatal year of
1826, there was reason sufficient to account for
it, not in the sounder bOttom of their commerce,
but in the more abundant patchings and vamp.
rags which it received front the unscrupulous
indulgence of the banks. he paper, engines
were set a-going—,:all hands:were at the pumps
to keep the leaky vessel: Aoat, until some
lucky change of.wind, or cleaiing up of the wea-
ther might enable her to get home in safety.—
It answered 'for a (chile, htit no more than for a
while : the breaking tip of affairs at Glasgow
begins to show—Avhat was, indeed, known to
many. Englishmen, but wrathfully contradicted
by evety.Scotehman—the prevalence or the dry
.rot throughout the whole interior of the system.
Whether it be the East Indies or the Wcst In-
dies;
or South America, or any other given
portion of the world, wherever the scene of the
overtrading may have been laid, its existence and
its.ruinons extravagance are no more question-
able than the vicious encouragement afforded to
it by the banking interest of Scotland. We do
not say that for such causes the Government
should deprive the Scotch people generally of
any portion of the blessing ef . that bank-paper
with 'which the' boaSt of their whole commerce
being identified; but we see au additiona'. reason
certainly for resisting any further attempt, if the
• T modesty of their banl;ing ascendancy should re-
peat-it, toobtain a currency for, Scotch paper
throughout the north of England.—Times.
The meeting last night at the London Ta-
vern, for the relief of the Spanish exiles, was
numerously attended, when the cause of that
ancting charity was pleaded by various indivi-
duals,. midi an earnestness and feeling, which,
trust, would have,a corresponding influence
tin the minds of all who were personally present,
and will re-act upon the, public at large. As it
was mentioned by one.gentlemen that his Grace
the Duke' of Wellington had been striving to
obtain an amnesty from Ferdinand in favour of
these his unfortunate subjects, • that they might,
under such an official promise of mercy, be in-
duced to leave England and return to Spain, we
think it right to state at once, what, indeed, we
have reason fur affirming,—that no Spaniard,
with one grain of common sense would value such
en " amnesty" at a single farthing. The Duke
otiWellindton would not trust one of his hounds
to' the guarantee of Ferdinand's word of honour;
mhy, then, should his Grace profess to indem-
nify the poor Spanish patriots for the assistance
which he -refuses them here, by a fictitious
promise from a known perjurer, which
would only expose them to be murdered
wlthow. laws instead of being executed un-
derforms ? There is not a Spaniard
who aoes not know,
that however he might
be at first received in Spain, he would be liable
•
tQ kpernoion, charge 4:airae new crime within
a week after iris setting foot on Spanish ground,
and that, en the evidence of the friar or other
impostor who sore against hint, lie knight be
thrown into a dun geon one dark night, or
:
stabbed the night following. Such virtue is
there in this . precious ." amnesty" So much
prosed about ! . We should like to hear Whether
the Duke of Wellington would make himself
and the British Government responsible for ler.
dinand's adherence to his word, and for the lives

of thOse on whose behalf he is asserted to ne

gotiatc ? If so, to what extent would his Grace
and the British. Government be inclined to go,

in enforcing such a guarantee against the persons
of the Camarilla ? It is preposterous to distract
the charitable feelings of the public by these tsles
of amnesties, which are not worth the paper that
contains them. The only present resource of the
poor foreigners is in the humanity of Britons. With
deep satisfaction we learned from a later report of
the last night's proceedings than had reached us'
when the above remarks were penned, that the
Lord Mayor lias been pleased to signify his in-
tention to comply with a requisition for a public
meeting of the city, to further the objects of the
charity,—an evidence of his Lordship's humane
and liberal character for which we had bceu all
along prepared, and for which the naked, the
hungry, and heart broken, will bless him. That
this-is not a party question we should not have
thought it worth while to observe, but for the
malignant spirit in %%nd] some miscreants, even
of the public press, have thought fit so to (le-
-s;cribe it. God forbid, that violent aslnay be
the political prepossessions of Eliglishien, the
duties of religion and mercy should ever find oh.
:it acles in them. We deprecate and abhor so
-t-de profanation of the sacred names in which

tsc have implored our countrymen of all parties
to raise the destitute stranger from untnerited
sntrerin, and despair. If the inhuman being

tsho Ira' endeavoured to check the overflow of

English benevolence •on this occasion will be-
lieve no other testimony that it is not party, but
"honest humanity which flies to the succour of
hese unhappy foreigners, let him read that Mr.
reel has stretched out his hand to help them,