The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-16 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MURDER AND ROBBERY.

The Lori 'Wellington packet, Captain Cheese•
man, which came in, with twenty-five passengers
from Divppe, yesterday, at Brighton, brings are
account• of a most horrible assassination, which
‘as perpetrated two miles froth Abbeville, ale 4

days ago :
A Mr. and Nirs. Phillips arrived in this town front London
about three months since, having previonsly etiga,rett hoosg:
on lease,. near the bottomOf Ship-strc,,t, which they ;1•=vo
since occupied Mr. Phil tips, not lulu an, departed fol-F.;-..ileei
.feaving his. wife and children here. At Dieppe,

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a persori veiled Frederick, a Prussian, who had lwalied a
French Wanian, and resided at Dieppe, as' his iAterpreter
• Mr. Phillips left Dieppe on Thursday, fur Abbeville, Where.
.Frederick was to join Into, and he did so, bringing with, hiuit
a small cabrioletor one-horse cart, or to convey then
on their journey. They left Abbeville in the cabriolet toge-
- thee, taking the route for Paris. The next slay, the Rini*
mail coach, which. puts up at the hotel at Abbeville, where
Mr. Phillips and Frederick stopped, brought a man's hat in.
which had been picked up on the road, the inside of whiclv
was bloody. This excited suspicions on the road : the Police
was applied to, and several persons were sent to examine the
place where the bat was fonnd, which was nut more than two,
miles from the tol,vn. The suspicions in the end were seri-SA.
Mr. Phillips's body was found coftl and stiff; the bead lite-.
rally crushed thit, apparently between two statics whieb lay
near him, the surfaces of which were bloody, and contained
a•portidn of his brain. -The body was borne to Abbeville;
and Frederick appearing again there on the following, day,. ;kg
was seized and sent to prison. - The subsequent investigation
has disclosed that Frederick returned the cabriolet to Dieoe,
where it had bean hire;d, the day after he bad leis Abbeville,
the seat of which, and the bottom, were stained with blood*
.It has also been ascertained, that in his progress-to Dieppe*
after the assassination, he left several article of wearing-3P-
aarel in a bloody -condition, toaether with a great coat that
belonged to Mr. Phillips, at father-in-law', between
Abbeville and Dieppe.When Mr. Phillips left, Dieppe. this
day se'nntght, it isknown that he bid lOU Louis d'ors and 511
Napoleons ae. in his pockets. Upon searching Fredee
rick, twenty-five Lonis d'ors, two-double and one xiagle .Na-
poleons were fotind upon him, which _were believed to have
belonged to the deeeaSed. :A violent struggle is supposed
grate taken place for, on the apprehension of Frederick, it
was found that-the fingers of
,his left hand were, bruised and
wounded, and other marks,. as of violence, were also seem
upon him. Frederick is not unknown; at this place ;he is
said to be the same person Who was the St eward.of the Union
packet, but whieh• vessel has not been-on thissiation nog,
for about three years. The remain of the, uncortnuate Mr.
Phillips were interred at Dieppe dn Friday last. Mrs: Phil-,
lips is confined to her house here by indisposition, and the
shocking catastrophe has not yet been revealed to her.

curious instance of somnambulism occurred
in Stamford early on Sunday morning. About
one o'clock,- Mr. Jarint thawooo, glazier, of
Paul-street; after hiving retired to rest in good
health as usual, found himself in hiS shirt in the
street, and one of his ancles so terribly- ifijured
that'he was unable to rise froM the ground, and
it was a considerable time before at that unsea-
sonable hour he could obtain any assistance. It
seems that Mr. Harwood had in his sleep opened
the casement of his bed-room- and jumped into
the street, a Weight of about 14 feet ; but he has
no remembrance of any dream which preceded
this strange adventure, and only once before hi
his life, that be is aware of, bad Walked iii lids
sleep, and then (about two years ago) he had
precipitated himself from the same window into
the street, luckily without doing himself anyse-
rions injury. lie lies at present under surgical
care, with, it is feared, a badly fractured ancle.—
(Leeds Intelligencer, Oct. 13.)
Yesterday seinnight, between the hours of
Seven and eight o'clock, as a decent looking wo-
man was passing along the Grass-market, Edin-
burgh,
with a-young child in her arms, she Odor-.
tunately had - gone too- near a horse which was
disposed to bite, consequently the, animal got hold
of the child's hand, and severed the first joint of
the ring finger from its-body. The-little sufferer
.must have run a risk,- even of life itself, had the
whole of the hand been included in the horse's
grasp, more particularly as the bones during child-
bOod are in a-state of cartilage. This oughtlo
be a-caution to parents and those who take charge
of youth-,,--and also to point out the propriety of
muzzling such horses as seem disposed to bite.

COAL MARKET, OCT. 15.
Shipp r.t Market. - Ships sold. Price.
54 Newcastlo 4ll 88s. ed. to 465. 9d,
12_ Sunderland .... 8i ....395. od. to 445. Od.

DIED.

On the 6th iqst. at Glashury, in the County of Radnor, hz
the 69th year of his a„(re,401111 Phillips, Esq. many' years De_
puty of Laughourn Ward, and one of the oldest Members of
the corporation of the City of London.
Same day, at"Nautes, in France, Charles Byron, aged two
years, the only so►i of James Wedderburn and the Hon. Lads
Frances Wedderburn Webster.

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