The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-07 00:00:00

HUDSON' V. Cf,ARKE AND ANOTHER.

The VICErCHANCELLOK; in disposing of this ease yesterday,
observed that the affidavits involved such a mass of perjury, that
it was disgusting to read them ; he would send it to a Court of
Law, where a summary mode of punishing such criminal
proceedings could be adopted, at least the parties'should be exposed.
His Honor addressed Mr. Montague this day respecting these
affidavits, and desired that Mr. Cook, the solicitor, should be ordered

a, lodge the deed of partnership between Clarke and Rarns den in

it
the Secretary of Bankrupts'-office, a* was. important that it
should he secured, iu case the matter should come before this
Court again. He hoped it was not the same person that drew up
the deed and the affidavits.

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An inquisition liras taken on Saturday evening, at
the Lord Wellington public-bowie, Old Kent-road, before R.
CARTER, Esq. and a respectable Jury,on the body of a young wo-
man named Eliza Stapleton, who was found drowned in the
Surrey Canal. The deceased, it was believed, in a fit of insanity,
brought on in consequence of the death of a young man to whom
she was on the eve of marriage, threw herself into the water. A
lock of her• deceased lover's hair was fOllllO iu her bosom when she
was taken out of the canal. Mr. James Huffer, the father-in-law,
wax called, who deposed as follows:--I sin a gold-cutter, and re.
side 111 Clericestwell-close. The accessed has been living nine
rears under my roof. ,ever since I. insrried her mother. About
three months awl she went to fridge :at No. DO, Great Leonard
street, Shoreditch, ans followed the Oceripati of a stopstress. I
have understood that • she was engaged to a young man, whose
name I know not, who died about sit: weeks ago. This circum-
stance preyed deeply on her spirits, and caused her to be quite
melancholy. She bad known the young man about a year. He
never came to my house Last Sunday she came to dine and
spend the day with us. Her Appetite had failed her. She fre-
quently burst into tears,. and 'seemed much afflicted. Her mother
pressed to know why she cried? The deceased answered, "It
Wei no matter." I went out about three, and returned about six
o'clock. Shortly afterwards the deceased suddenly bid her mo-
ther and my children " Good by," and ran out of the twine.
on Tuesday night the landlady with whom she lodged came to
acquaint us that she had suddenly disappeared, and that she had
lately conducted herself in s° singular a manner,. as to induce her
(the landlady) to believe the deceased was insane. Very early
the following morning my wife went to seek the deceased at her
grandfather's, who lives at the New-cross, Deptford, and whom
she was in the habit of occasionally visiting. She found that
the deceased bad not been there for some weeks. I accidentally
heard on Thursday that a young woman had been found drowned,
near the bridge in the Kent-road, and fearing it might be my
• daughter-in-law, front the 'circuthstances already detailed, I came
hither, and discovered it was her.—After a short consultation,
the Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased drowned her•
self when labouring under a temporary fit of insanity."
WEXFORD.—ATTACK ON THE MILITARY.—
On Friday night last a seizure of a still was made by a party
consisting of twelve soldier, and three policemen, and on the foll O-
wing morning the horses of some of the neighbouring country
people were taken, without the consent, of their owners, for the
purpose of conveying it aiid its utensils to Tallow. The country
people • indignant that their horses should be taken without their
concurrence, and apprehensive that there was no intention of re-
turning them, assailed the military and police with a- volley of
stones. The officer who commanded the soldiers, wirhiog, if
possible, to avoid the effusion of blood, ordered theM to retire,
leaving the assailants in possession, not only, of the horses, but of
the still and its appendages. Not satisfied with this, the country
people followed the soldiers, keeping up an incessant pelting of
stones, as they took the road to Tallow. In hopes of check-
ing them the officer desired his men to discharge their tow
kets over their heads. This they did, !At instead of the an-
ticipated effect, the country people, seeing no one fall, sup-
posed that the military were unprovided with any thing but
powder, and pressed forward with increased determination, when
a stone from one of them having struck the officer and knocked
lihn off his horse the soldiers were eompelled, in self-defence, to
take a More de&inveind efl'ective port: They accordingly re-load-
ed, and forming three-deep across the road, directed their fire full
in thefuee of their pursuers. Every shot took effect, One man
was killed onthe,epot; six others were so dangerotisly wounded,
that on Sunday morning no hopes were entertained of their re-
covery, and by many others injuries were received of a lees impor-
tant nature. We mention the following circumstance as a proof
of the unyielding olAtineey with which the country people prose-
ented their object. When the soldiers commenced firing, one of
them, who was *tending near the corner of a house, was struck
by a ball with so met force al to occasion his falling. The hall
struck him on the ride of the head, bareing a part of it : but no
way intimidated by the: narrowness of his escape, or the proba-
bility of asecond salutation of the same kind, he bounced upon
his leg*, and joined in the affray with greater fury than before.—
Wexford Herald.
Dovtn, Ave. 2.—At 12 o'clock this day the
ontetww"ittlitiaz
threavriateetolf;
funeral, of poor Morgan took place in St. Mary's Church. The
tltiletednectizasee which was wtab: pierced
with corpse was preceded in military procession by a company of' Ar-
tillerymen,with bailie his brace of pistols and cutlass ; the pall supported by
six quarter-ma-nets of the preventive service, followed by his
weeping widow and friends; theta came about 80 of the comrades
of the deceased, attended by two Lieutenants, and three other
officers of navy. Altogether it had a very solemn and impos-
ing effect ; particularly when passing over the 'parade, the place
where the melancholy affair took place. The deemed has left no
children. Double% the young widow will be provided for.T
here is a gentleman, belonging
Virginia, now in Washington, wit" postethe -extraordinary
mmb
faculty of acquiring and reeering decided paints of law, so ns
Lo be. able, whenever any point as proposed, to state the reporter,
the volume, umanme the ale, and tite Page where reported. `phis
to the bar of
facility, it is stated, lie ,lias acquired by a method of reading, Pe-
cavil his own ; atel he is willing to eonanuoicate the secret to
gentlemen of the profosion fur a small eeto sin pensation.—eier icon
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