The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-01 00:00:00

TUE DUKE OF CUMBERLAN6„

As the feelings of the PUblic are naturally Very
strongly interested in the extraordinary event whch
we yesterday communicated to our Rea':ers, we t.P.;:n
it our duty to colled the particulars that relaie to
this shocking transaclion. The Duke, it seems; hAt
dined on Wednesday at Greenwich, returned ttaui,vl-1
in the evening, and went to the Concert for the bet
nefit.of the Roy al Society of Musicians. 'He returned
home about half past twelve, and went to bed abotiC.
one.

Soon after two o'clock, when his Royal HighneSi
was in a sound sleep, the assassin entered. his cham-
ber with a dark lamiar°, and put out the lamp.—
One of the Duke's sabres was kept constantly in a
drawer in the chamber, and it was with this weapon,
which the assassin either then took out of the drawer,
or had previously secured, that the attenipt was made.
His Royal Highness was awakened by a very heavy
blow on his head with a-sabre, which severed the
netting he wore over his night cap, and inflicted a
deep cut. The Duke sprang from the bed whilst
the villain was in the act of reheating the blow,
and which he received on his arm, having lifted it
for the purpose of protecting his head.
Before his Royal Highness could reach the door
of his chambers other blows were made, which
inflicted several wounds, and by one of which one of
his fingers was nearly severed from his hand. The
Duke having at length been enabled to open the door
of his chamber, called out " Neale (the natne of his
. English valet), I ain murdered, I arn.murdered."—
The valet, much slartusd, was proceeding hastily
into the bed-room, when the Duke said, " Don't go
-in, the murderers are in my 'bed-room, and they will
murder you as they have murdered me."
At this moment, Neale trode on the sabre, which
the
.assassin had thrown down. The Duke desired
Neale not to leave him, as he • feared there were
others in the room. His Royal HighneSS, however,
shortly afterwards proceeded to the porter's room,
and Neale went to awaken Sells (a Piedmontese),
and another of the Duke's valets. There was at
this time a general alarm in the house. The door
of Sellis's room was locked, and Neale called out
to him, saying " The Duke is murdered." No
answer being,given, the door was broke open, and
• Sellis was found dead in his bed, with his throat cut
from ear to ear.
It is supposed that Sellis, conscious of his own
guilt (for there appears no doubt that he was. the
assassin), imagined, when the alarm was given at
his door, that they were about to take him into
custody, and. immediately cut his throat. His blue
coat was found folded up on a chair in one corner of
the room, the inside of which was stained with blood,
and as he had cut his throat in another part of the
room, the blood must have been the blood of his
master. A pair of hiS slippers were also found in
the closest adjoining the Duke's chamber, where lie
had concealed himself until his Royal Highness was
asleep.
The reasons which induced Sellis to make this
atrociotis attempt to assassinate his master, it is ex-
tremely difficult to develope, and it is rendered al,
Most impossible, by his having put a period to his
own existence. A report was in circulation, as we
yesterday stated; that he had been instigated to it
by jealousy, and the circumstance of the Duke hav-
ing been one of the sponsors for Sellis's last child was
adduced in corroboration of this supposition. It is,
however, by no • means uneommon for persons of
high rank to become sponsors for the children of do-
mestics who have been long in their Service, and
this circumstance, in itself, amounts to nothing, nor .
have we been able -to learn that there is any real
ground for believing. that jealousy formed any part of
the motive.

It was also said, that Sellis was insane, and we
understand there is some ground for believing this
to be the fa&, he having bean observed by the other
domestics for about a Month previously-to have been
low spirited, and in a peculiar state of mind, which
induced them to say frequently, that he was out of
his mind. There appeals, however, to have been a
great deliberation of purpose evinced in his conduit
in concealing himself in the closet, and in watching
the opportunity of the Duke being asleep. The oaly
part of his condu& that appears like the act of a mad-
man is his using the sabre in so extraordinary a man-
ner to effect his purpose.
It has been said, as we also before stated, that
some differences- had occurred between Sans and
other persOns in the Mike's service, in which his
Royal Highness had taken part with the latter.—
Sellis had been in the Duke's service 16 or 17 years,
with intervals, during which, in consequence of some
disagreements, he had quitted it. At one of those
periods' he lived in the service of the late John Man-
ners; Esq. of He was, however, rather a
favourite of the Duke's, arid his Royal Highness took
him again into his service, and is stated to have be-
behAved very kind towards him and his family, con-
sisting of a s ife and four children.-
The revengeful-disposition of some Italians is well
known, but whether the above circumstance oper-
ated upon the mind of this Ryan to produce so hor-
rible an attempt to revenge himself, or whether a
deranged state of Mindreodered him the vielim of
imaginary wrongs, and that thus his insanity Was in-
creased-till it terminated in t his dreadfitl catastrophe,
it is now difficult to ascertain.- - •
The assassin has expel iericed countless instances
of the kindness and condescension of his Royal
Highness, who even stood as godfather to his last
child, and indulged hits and his family with apart-
ments under his own tool f He took the advantage
of this indulgence and converted it into an engine to
accomplish his sanguinary purpose. • .
• To evince his malice and desi..-erate systematic plan,
Sellis had fastened all the doors which communicated
from his apartments to the chamber of his Master, -
and had even provided water and towels tq wash
himself in the closet or anti-room where he had se-
creted himself; and a few days ago he suggested to
his
_Royal Highness that his regimental sword was.
become blunt, and had permission to get it,sharpen-
ed. He had, moreover, made •anch arrangements
as to induce a suspicion that Mr. N. the page in at-
tendance, was the perpetrator of the horrid deed, in
the event of its being Oone.
Sellis was found lying on the bed dressed, except
ai to his coat, waists t, and sl,oes, h 11;s throat
cut in a most shucking manner. It was afterwards
ascertained that he came to the Duke's apartments to
sleep, although not in waiting, tinder a pretence
that his children were ill; but instead of going to

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bee.' -t:is, concealed himself in closet, 4..thert 4-
used to keep boots ani Shoes, adjoining the Duhei I.'
bed-rOom, v. ith a dark-lanthorn There is ,o ~
doubt bat he expected the h.rst blow Or two won d
have proved tato', es he was not ;)repatcd to murdet i
himself, till he found he had not hired the Du:'o;
a his key's were found in his drawer; from which
h' took his razor to cut his own throat.
, . the wretched assassin has left a wife firld four
children; the eldest a girl of about eight rears of ~
age.

- . Mr. SnERIDAN was at Brooks's when • the ac-
Count first reach cl that place. He immediate. iv
went to.the Palace, and soon afterwards to Carltoe ~
House, to conamunieate it to the Prince of Wales.
The Prince of Wales went to the Palace early in the
morning to Visit his Royal brother, and about eight
o'clock set ad- for Windsor, to communicate to
the Royal Faintly the intelligence of the dreadful at-
tack
made upon ~the Duke.
His Royal Highness upon his return from Wind
sor, between twelve and one o'clock, visited his
Royal Brother, as did the Royal Dukes, the Duke
of Gloucester, and a numerous as:einhiage of per-
sons of distinction, among them was General Du-
" monrier..
The Prince of Wales attended by Mr. Ryder:
and another Gentleman, visited the Duke again at
hal4ast six o'clock,•and 'remained there some time.
The Duke of York followe I soon after. Sir Henry
Halford visited hiS Royal Highness at five o'clock,
and remained till halt past six. '
It is supposed that when Sellis first heard at hilt
door the exclamation, " Sellis, soineb.7.)dy has mut-
' dered the Duke," he thought that the words were,
Sellis, you," lite, but this is all conjecture.
The following was the Bulletin of last night :
" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland remain;
compoled, and as well as can be expected.
;Signed) " H. HALFORD.
" Six o'clock in the Evening."
The Duke of CUMBERLAND wits last night remov4
ed to Carleton-House, on account of the ensunt
birth-day, and because he can have the ,mm-diat
attention of his Royal Brother. The daily accou tit
are still to be given at St. James's.
This day at two o'clock, a Coroner's Jury was coti-
vened by Adams, Esq. of Great Russel-street,
Bloomsbury, in order to examine into the particular!
of the case respecting the Motives of Sellis for com-
mitting so horrid an autrage upon his Royal Master:
It is supposed that the investigation will be of great •
length, the particulars of which we shall lay betote
the public as soon as we learn them.

The following is the extrati of a private letter
from Buenos Ayres, dated March t, and watch
contains some very interesting particulars :
." My last informed. you of the conditions on
which the port was opened to alree trade. Soon
atter that event took place; the British here were-
surprised and alarmed by orders issued to them, ge-
nerally, to quit this country, some in eight days, and
others te a Shorter period, without any cause for so
-extraordinary a measure being assigned. On repre-
sentation being made to the Viceroy of the iejustice
of that measure, at a time when, upon the streeg.h
of the cond',ions of the free trade, the British had
confided their property into the hands of the Spa.
niards, and had reason to believe them-Aves secure,
he has allowed them a period of to ir months, from
the date of the entry of their respeaile ships, to
wind up their affairs. It is not appreheeded but
that, at the end of that period, a longer one will be
granted to those whose affairs reptire it.
It appears that the opening of thy port is mere-
ly a temporary measure, adopted by him to answer
his present purposes, as by the duties levied on the
cargoes of the ships here he is enabled to pay a part
of the arrears due to his troops, which have been
running on for these last five or six months past, in.
consequence of the disturbances in the interior pre-
venting the arrival of cash, as was customary. If
affairs in Spain go on as bad as is reported, a short
time will probably decide what part this country
will take; whether-it will declare its independence,
or remain attached to old Spain. Whatever be its
fate, it,is suspected that this Viceroy has orders to
declare for either JOStPH or FERDINAND, as atL4s
in Soain shall turn out.

" Some alarm bas been created here by a report
of the Brest fleet being out ; it is said that a Spa-
nish vessel arrived tt few days since at Mune Video,
fell in with a French squadron of the line, which
plundered her of almost all her cargo. Oroers have
been issued here for the enrolment of all the male
inhabitants from the age of 15 to 45, and the V:Ce-
roy, it is reported, is going down to Monte Video!,
to insped the fortifications. Business here is ctult ;
British manufaetures are selling very,low ; iret Isis
of produce for England 16 guineas per ton. 1,0
Mutine sloop of war is daily expected flom
donado. The Lightning, it is said,. will t,ke
a great qUantity of dollars, on account of the Phi-
lippine Company."

The Candidates for Fortune's favours next Friday
are numerous.

SMITHFIELD MARKET; fuwz 1.
This day's Market had but an ind!tferent surpl,f
of different kinds of_ Cattle ; Reef, Mutton, Pork,
and Veal, sold at last prices; Lamb is qhearer ; and
the trade for the most part was not 6ver brisk.---
The sales in the Hay Market were itic:',Onhiler,!ble ;
Striis.v and Clover obtained last prices ; Hay hai
fallen in price.—The undermentioned prices auti.
nuinbis are an accurate statement :--

To sink the offal per stone of glb.
Beef 4s. Ed. to 6s. 4d. Mutto4l M. to 6s. 4d. Veal
4s. lkt. to 7s. od. Pork SS. wi. to 7s, od. Lamb Ss. od. to
7s._

Busts sio. Sheep and Lambs 6,z00. Calves 139. Pigs •
240.

CORN-EXCHANGE, JUNE I.—The Market to-day
continues to have large supplies of Wheat, mostly
Foreign, but few tine samples which maintain their
price, .other qualities dull sale ; in Barley and M ?It
little fluctuation i. Peas and Beans of the two kind,
likewise ; New Ticks 425. to 475. per Quarter,
Old as per currency ; Oats are in middling supply,
and this trade also at little variation ; Flour remains
at late prices.

Wheat -85 s a 9 cs a trss
Fine - .• 118 s a 1225
Rye - - -48 s a 54,
Barley 3zs a 47s
Malt -72 S a t os
hite Pease 7cs a 78s
Grey di!to - 455 a sos
Beans (old) 6os a op I

Tick Beans (old; ;os acc •
Oats - - zr 25..; a 30s
Poland ditto . 3.3 s a 36,.
Poland
ditto - os a 38.,
Rape Seed - - 561 col
Fine Flout L 95S a 10-s
Seconds - 9os a 9js