The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-10 00:00:00

SUPPOSED MURDER.

Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an inquisition
was taken at the Castle Tavern at Woolwich, before
JOSEPH CARTER, Esq. upon the body of a man, name
unknown, who was found drowned in the Thames
on Sunday morning last, under circumstances which
can leare no doubt that he was murdered.

The body lay at the bone-house, and had the ap-
pearance of having been in the water for five or six
days. The throat was cut from one ear to the other
in a dreadful manner, and some of the front teeth
knocked out. There were. also marks of violent
contusions on the head and on the left arm, which
was broken near the wrist. Round the waist was
a cord, to which was attached a stone of about eight
pounds weight. The head of the deceased was
bald in front, and he had rather full whiskers of a
reddish colour. He appeared to have been about
4.5 years of age, and of stout and sinewy form.
William Hazzell sworn—l live at Barking, in
Essex, and am a fisherman. On Sunday morning
last I was ship-keeper on board the fishing-sraack
Ebenezer, lying at Barking Creek's mouth. About
eight o'clock that morning something drifted by the
vessel, which the mate said he thought was a human
body, and by des;re of the Captain of the Ebenezer,
I put a rope round under the arm-pits of the body,
and towed it astern of the boat to the Bell-water-gate
in this town, and reported the circumstance to the
parish authorities. After he. was brought on shore,
a stone was found tied round his middle, and hanging
in front of the lower part of the belly.
Juror--Was his throat cut, and did any blood
flow from the wound ? Witness—The throat was
dreadfully cut, and when the body was dragged out
of the water some blood did issue,' but not much.
William Deacon, a surgeon at Woolwich, sworn
—I saw the body of the deceased at the bone-house,
on Sunday morning. I examined the body of the
man superficially only, nos being requested to in-
spect it minutely. I looked at the throat, and found
that the windpipe had been partly divided, but not
entirely. I passed my finger round the throat to
ascertain if the carotid artery had been severed, and
found it had not.

CORONER.--Do you think the wound was suf-
ficient in itself to have caused death ? Witness—
Certainly, I do.
Juror—Do you think it possible that the deceased
could have run 20 yards or so, after the wound in
the throat was inflicted ? Witness--I think he
might have done so.

The clothes worn by the deceased were here pro-
duced and inspected by the jury. In one of the
shoes was written " W. M., June, 1827."

A long discussion then took place amongst the
jury (with closed doors) as to the propriety •f ad-
journing until a more miniqe examination of the
body could take place by a surgeon. The discussion
upon that point, and subsequently as to the verdict,
was very warm, but finally the following verdict
was agreed upon and formally returned :—" That
the deceased was found on the 7th day of Sept.
dead, and floating on the river, Thames, with his
throat cut and a stone tied to his body, but whether
he died by the said cut, or by drowning, or by his
own hands, or by the hands of any other persons,
there is no evidence before this inquest to prove."
The body of the unfortunate man was interred as
soon as the verdict was returned.

On Thursday the Police seized, in the shops
of several printaellers, an engraving representing NAroLioN
on horseback and in uniform,--a lithograph representing
Narous or. in a winter-cloak,—a lithograph. representing
the battle of Austerlite„—a view of, the island of St. lielena
and several others..—French Paper.

CoLoMßlA.—Extract of a letter from Car-
thagena, dated July 6 :—" The Convention has been
broken up, and General Bouvan has been called to save
the country by the different Departments ; and is made'
Supreme Chief with unlimited powers. He has assumed
since this suite a different character ; 'his energy is show-
ing .itself, and he writes in high spirits, assuring the
country that he can and will save it, and will not leave the
helm of Government until he puts the Republic in safety.
He has got every thing as he wished, and it is now to be
hoped that he will succeed."

MONDAir, SEPT. B.—High water 47 min. past ten.—
Wind S. to S.S.E.—Arrived the Franklin, Taylor,
from New York ; Ivanhoe, Boyle, New Orleans ; Moun-
taineer, ---, Philadelphia ; Mediterranean packet,
!ante; Wm. Parke, Smith, Jamaica; March-
ionetrs of fluctriElii!ry, :7;t. John's, r.r. ; Ca-
merton; Hewitt, Montreal; W. Rathbone, Owens, Africa;
Pacific, —, Trinidad ; Jane, Howard, Antwerp ; He-
lena, —, ditto; Ann, Geoxge, Hamburgh ; Jonge
Geerge, posit; Ann, Smith, St. John's; Ma-
meluke, Todd, Archangel; and Cornelia, Doret, Havre
de Grate;
ChrTWANDS.—The Birmingham, Harris, for
New York; Mont..iurna, West, Philadelphia.; Jonge
Tjeteke Tromp, Ohlendorp, Antwerp.; Oster, Hameister,
Dantiic ; FrenrulsChaft, Bier, ditti7i ; Ogletlairpe, Teubner,
SaVannah ; lienry Grattan, Ilylton, New Orleans; Die
Bleue, Kunde, ditto.

The Sheriffs Elect have appointed THOMAS
Tusow, Esq., of Coleman-street, and WILLIAM RICHARD-
sox, Esq., of WalbroA, their Under-Sheriffs.

A General Meeting of the Subscribers to the
Statue intended to be erected in Liverpool, to the Memory
of the late Mr. CANNING, was held on Monday last, in
the Town Hall, the MAron in the Chair, when it was
resolved, on the motion of JOHN GLADSTONE, E.g. that
the Memorial should be of bronp., and not of marble, as
had been previously determined upon ; and that the site
be the centre of St. George's-ereecent, at the top of Lord-
street.

TURKISH STANDARD.— The Turks pre-
serve a green standard, borne by Mattwarr, with a great
deal of veneration, as believing it to have been brought
down by the Angel GABRIEL. Every time it is displayed,
all who profess the Mahometan faith are obliged to take
arms; those who refuse are to be deemed as infidels. The
Turks attribute such exceedingly great power to the Angel
GABRIEL as to be able to descend, in the space of an hour,
from heaven to earth, to overturn a mountain with a single
feather of his wing, &c.

We have had accounts from Malaga this
morning to the 24th ult. The following is an extract
from a mercantile letter of the 23d :—" Our crops of
fruits are likely to prove very abundant, especially the
almonds, and we anticipate prices 1611 recede considerably,
especially as there are not many orders arrived yet for pur-
chasing. Some shipments are making by American Yes-
sels.—ln consequence of the very severe drought we have
had in this neighbourhood, the craps of olives have suffered
so much, that oil continues advancing in price daily, and
cannot now be shipped under 741. per pipe of 34 arrobas ;
the price must, therefore, advance in your market, to en-
courage fresh shipments from this."

On the Bth of August, a fine woodcock was
shot in Florida demesne, county of Down. This, we be-
lieve, is rather a rare occurrence, as these birds do not visit
us till about November, and emigrate again in February.
As it vas seen in the course of the spring, it is supposed
to have remained in the country since last winter.—Bel-
fast Chronicle.

It is said that it was originally intended that
the Russian squadron, instead of putting in at a British
port, as it was compelled to do from stress of weather, was
to have victualled at a French port, according to an ar-
rangement made with the French Government. This
story has led to a surmise that there exists at present a se•
cret treaty between France and Russia, relative to Turkey,
to the exclusion of this country.—Morning Chronicle.

The Harvest is nearly completed in the low
country, and has commenced in the higher districts, but
the poor Highlanders have not yet finished the summer
work of carrying home their peaty, which was delayed in
consequence of the rains; the peaty being not yet sufficiently
dry, will cause an essential deduction from the comforts of
the domestic hearth during a northern winter.—lnverness
Journal.

ConoNErt's INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon
a Coroner's Inquest was held in the Coninsittee-room of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before T. SHELTON, Esq.,
on the body of SOPHIA MORGAN, about sloven months old,
who was killed by the falling of a house, in Frogwell-
court. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death,"
and found that the ruins of the house were of no value,
and the property of a person unknown.
CORDER'S CASE.—The late trial and execu-
tion of CORDER has apparently excited as much interest in
France as in this country, according to the various accousts
in the French journals. However, in addition they assert that
murder, suicides, &c. are more frequent in Louden than in
Paris.

A letter from Toulon says—" The expedition
will be much more considerable than was at first supposed,
and it is said that thirty regiments will be embarked. The
vessels la Duchesse de Berri, le Finisterre, l' Oise, and la
Cararane, have received many troops on beard ; and the
Didon was hardly out of the arsenal when soldiers were put
on board of her. The Armide is ready, but it is thought
that she cannot be is the roads till the 12th September.
The Cuirassier has sailed for Marseilles to escort some of
the transports."

USEFUL DISCOVERY.—At the moment that
M. BAUDOUIN has succeeded, in France, in discovering a
method of passing under water without drowning, M.
ALDINI, a Member of the Institute of Milan, has discovered
a mode of passing through fire without being burned.
This celebrated Professor has verified his great discovery
by various public experiments At llilau and Pavia. We
trust the Members of the Institute here will immediately
attend to this, for the purpose of snaking it known, and
propagating it in Fro.uce.—French Paper.

It would appear front accounts received by the
Lisbon mrii, that some armed bands still exist in the
neighbeurhood of that city. These Guerillas, which are
said to be composed of some of the dispersed Constitutional
volunteers, are denounced by the magistrates appointed
under the authority of Don MIGUEL, as robbers, and it is
probable, that they have no other means of existence than
plunder. Be this as it may, these bands, if they be as
numerous and daring as they are represented, must give
considerable trouble to Don Micum.'s Government. A
party, consisting of 30, armed with swords and blunder-
'susses. is stated to have appeared on the 11th ult, at the
village of Calveda, about two leagues from Oporto. They
were under the command of a man whom they called
Sergeant : but none of them had any military uniform.—
Another party, 25 strong, passed the preceding day through
a village within half a league of Oporto.
MARGATE STEAMERS AND LONDONPlCK-
rocicars.7—ln one of the Margate steamers which carried
down company a few days since, at the rate of ss. per
heal, the pickpockets committed robberies to the amount
of between three and four hundred pounds. One of the
depredators not only robbed the passengers, but endeavoured
to defraud the Captain of his fare. The usual practice is
to take the passage-money of the person when he comes on
board, and a printed receipt is given, which must be de.
livered before he lands from the steamer. A pickpocket,
who had not paid the fare, endeavoured to get ashore
without producing his ticket. The Captain stopped him,
and some confusion occurred, during which a lady who
had been rohhed of all her cash, exclaimed, " You have
thieves on board ! I have lost all the money I brought
from town !" " Several have been robbed," said a gentle-
man, "and I think I knew the thief. That man, Captain,
who refuses to produce his ticket, has been busy among
the passengers. I saw him in a suspicions situation."—.
The depredator was instantly seized and carried on shore
to the watch-house, where those persons who had been
plundered attended, in the hope of finding upon him some
of their property. The prisoner was searched, and cash
and bank notes taken from his person, but it did not appear
that any one could identify their property, until Mr. S., a
respectable tradesman in Fetter-lane, said, "I have lost
two Si. notes and four 21. notes—my name is written on
the back of each." The scrutiny was again made, but no
property belonging to Mr. S. could he distinguished ; at
last it appeared that they had omitted to search the fellow's
great-coat packets,
and upon close examination of that
part of his dress, they found the notes Mr. S. had lost,
with his name in full as he had described. The offender
was confined in the cage during Saturday night and
Sunday. On Monday he was committed for trial.

folldwin letter,
addressed to the different
Associations ox' i
.in circulation.
It has 'emanated from the Society North
Shields, and is dated Scpt. 2, 1828
" Sir—l am -directed by the General Committee
of the ihipowners' Society for this port, to state
to you, fOr the inflirmatien of the Shipowners
of --, th'it the result of Our Agent's cua
deavours to induce his Majesty's Goi'crnment
to give attention to the well-founded complaint
ef the unpiTeetlented state of depression to
which the Commercial Marine of treat Britain is
reduced, has been a specific pledge from Ministers,
through the Medinm of the Vice-President of the
Board Of Trade; to Messrs. Richmond and Forrest,
our deputies, in the prdsena bf tht, I-104 H T% Lid-
dell and Matthew Bell, Esq. the Members let the
county of Northumberland, that the matter would
fully and fairly be taken into consideration by them
during the present recess of Parliament, without bias
or partiality to any particular systenz, for the avowed
purpose of doing all in their power to alleviate that
distress, which they no longer appear to doubt or deny.
" am further directe to inform you, that his
Grace the Duke of Wellington heey distinctly pledg,rol
himself to the Duke of Northumberland to the same
effect, and also to the Earl of Eldon; both of which
Noblemen take a strong interest in the question.—
A copy of Lord Eldon 's letter to Mr. Richmond,
stating the result of his interview with the first
Minister, is herewith annexed. It appears very evi-
dent that the Duke of Wellington has strong doubts
as to the efficacy of the new system, in its effects on
the shipping of his own country ; but it must not be
forgotten that he is surrounded in the Cabinet by a
number of gentlemen who have, in a great degree,
been the disciples of proselytes of the liberal school,
and who, it is much to be apprehended, may in-
fluence him in a way that may be most prejudicial to
our reasonable expectations of relief.
"The Committee here have thought it right that
the Shipowners of the kingdom should he acquainted
with the promised intention of his Majesty's Go-
vernment ; and it must remain for their own deter-
mination what influence they may be inclined to
exert or put forth, so that the Doke of Welling-
ton's intentions for their relief may not be neutra-
lized by the representations of those who may be
unwilling to admit or remove the evils, originating
from a system of which themselves were the
authors."
Here follows the letter of Lord Eldon :

" Sir—Since I saw you upon a communication
with the Duke of Wellington, I may inform you
that his Grace purposes to give his attention to the
important case of the Shipowners during the recess
of Parliament.

" I am, with much respect, Sir,
" Your obedient Servant.
(Signed) " ELDON.
" July 23, 1828."