The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-08 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER.

LILLE, MARCH 31.-A horrid murder was
perpetrated on the 28th instant, in the village of
Beignecourt, in the vicinity of Cambray. J.
Smedt, a farmer, married, a few months ago,
an interesting young person, who had, till
the period of her nuptials, been residing at
Donny. Previous to her leaving this town she
had several admirers who had offered to marry
her, but they met with a refusal, although
one of these individuals appears to have gained
her affections. She was persuaded by her rela.
tions and friends to give the preference to
Smedt, who, though much older and less agree-
able in his person and manners than the other
suitors, was supposed to possess good property,
and this was deemed a sufficient motive to forego
every other advantage. It was discovered a few
weeks after she had settled at Creignecourt, that
the pecuniary circumstances of her husband were
far from being of so favourable a kind as she had
anticipated, and feeling much vexation at the
idea of being deceived, and by a person
for whom she experienced no love, she was
imprudent enough to discover to her husband
the state of her mind. It unfortunately hap-
pened that, about this period, the man whom she
preferred came to reside in the same village. Iler
husband had heard her speak of this person in
terms that could not but displease him, and jea-
lousy soon took possession of his mind. He
watched then► closely, and found that some
understanding existed between them. In a
fit of jealous madness he resolved to murder
the young man ; and having waited from
seven in the evening till nine, in a se-
eluded place, where it was probable that he
would pass, on seeing him go by, he fired a gun
and shot him through the shoulder ; after this
he beat him over the head with the butt.end of
the gun, but hearing some neighbours, he fled,
and has not yet been arrested. The unfortunate
youth was carried home by the persons who had
come up, but he expired the instant he was placed
on his bed.

STAGE COACII CRUELTY.—The competition I
between the Rockingham and Union coaches of
this town still continues. On Sunday morning,
about three miles this side of Pontefract,one of the
horses belonging to the Union dropped dead on
the road, from the effects of over-driving. The
animal was in perfect health when he left Leeds,
and would not have been sold by Mr. Hollings the
owne►r, at tbe moment of starting, for 40 guineas.
On the same morning and near the same place,one
of the horses of the Rockingham had his shoulder
dislocated. Mr. Lee, the proprietor of the Rock-
ingham,gives very positive orders to his coachman
on leaving Leeds, not to drive at a more than ordi-
nary rate, nor to attempt any rivalry witt.► the
Union ; but we can say, from personal know-
ledge of the fact, that, notwithstanding these in-
junctions, the Rockingham reached Pontefract,
on Tuesday morning, in lest than an hour. The
road is certainly an excellent one, though a gra-
dual acclivity for the whole 13 miles, and the
speed very agreeable for those who have no con-
sideration for their own safety nor that of the
cattle. The coach carried the full complement of
passengers, inside and outside.--(Leeds Intern-
gencer.)

The TRIAL of the UNNATURAL. Eitld CRUEL
FATHER and MOTHER, Thomas and Mary
man, is just concluded. They were tried upon
the first indictment, which contained four counts:
the first charged them with " intent to kill and
destroy." -The second count charged them
with abusing their children " with intent to do
them some bodily harm." Upon the first count
the prisoners were acquitted; upon the second
count they were both found guilty. The Court
sentenced them to be confined for 18 calendar
months, but the description of the misdemeanor
of which they had been convicted did not leave
it in the power of the Court to add labour to
their punishment. The worthy Chairman, in
addressing the prisoners, told them, that if they
could maintain themselves, labour would not
be exacted ; but not even the gaol allowance
would he extended to them, unless they earned
it. The court was crowded
.to excess during
the trial ; and when the sentence was deliver-
ed, the lower class in particular expressed much
disappointment that the punishment was to he so
far short of the prisoners' deserts. A large con-
course surrounded the caravan, which the inhu-
man parents entered with difficulty, amidst the
loudest execrations, and they were followed by
hootiugs, and other marks of disgust to the doors
of their prison. The child was produced in
court ; its shadow.like appearance excited the
greatest sympathy for its sufferings, and the ut-
most indignation against those who were the
Cause of them. The Sessions concluded with this
trial.--(Chellothum Chronicle, April 7.)

'Custer:lo Bo i(S.—The Association formed in
the parish of Tottenham for superseding the ne-
cessity of climbing boys, had a meeting on Wed-
nesday last, when a report of what had been ac.
complished at the end of the first year of the insti-
tution was read, and we are glad to find that the
benevolent efforts of the members of the commit-
tee (who, from the list of names, it appears are
all ladies) to introduce the use of a machine for
sweeping chimnies, have been attended with very
considerable Stleces3. The report states that
46 out of 220 principal houses, the chimnies of
about 100 have been cleansed by the machine,
besides a great number of smaller houses and cot-
tages ; and the committee have the satisfaction to
say, that several persons who had been strongly
prejudiced against the use of it, are now convinced
that the work is as well or better done in that
Some
sketches of difficult chimnies are given with the
report,
way than by means of climbing boys."
to show how obstacles to the use of the
machinery Duly be removed by slight alterations.

On Wednesday evening, about eight o'clock, a
beautiful PHENOMENON was observed in the hea-
vens, all over Scotland, consisting of a stream of
I fight, extending
from N.E. I-2 E. to S.W. 1.2 W.
There is little doubt but that this phenomenon
was au arcu3 borealis.

UNITED STATES.

BOUNDARY 0/ TIIE UNITED STATES ON THE PACI.

TIC OCEAN.

On the 31st of January last the President of
the United States communicated to Congress, in
compliance with a resolution of the House of
Representatives, of the 18th of that month, a
Report froth the. Secretary of State, with the
correspondence with the British Government,
relating to the boundary of the United States on
the Pacific ocean. The report consists of a let•
ter of instructions from Mr. Adams, when
Secretary of State, to Mr. Rush, whilst the
latter was Minister in London ; of an extract
from a dispatch from Mr. Rush, containing an
account of his discussions With the British Plen-
ipotentiaries on the subject ; protocols of con-
ferences : and of a paper specifying the condi-
tions, as to the boundary to which the United
States would accede, and a paper declaratory of
those in which Great Britain would acquiesce.
The settlement of our boundary on the Pacific.
Ocean is daily becoming more and more important.
independently of the expediency of preventing I
future conflicts, by an early adjustment of the
line of coast over which our government is here-
after to exercise soverign jurisdiction in that
quarter, the claims of those who are engaged in
the fur trade, the fisheries, in the traffic w ith the
Indians of that coast, and in the intercourse with
the Islant.:s in the Southern Pacific, and with
China, demand the earnest attention of our con-
stituted authorities. In a word, the interests of
navigation and commerce are deeply involved in
the question of national right and jurisdiction in-
that region. The parties that have territorial
claims on the extreme western part of this con-
fluent, are Spain, Russia, Great Britain, and the
United States. The facts upon which they re-
spectively rest, are distinctly adverted to in the
instructions of Mr. Adams, and the letter orMr.
Rush. This correspondence, however, is no
later thou the 12th of August, 1824, and is
antecedent to the treaty with Russia, which,
although formed at St. Petersburgh on the
17th of April, 1824, was not consummated,
by, an exchange of ratifications at Washington,
until the 11th of February,. 1825. By the.third
article of that treaty, it was stipulated that here-
after there should not be. formed, by., citiv.enS
of the United States, any establishmetet:opon the
north west of America, nor in any of the: Wends
adjacent, to the north of 54 degrees and 49
of north latitude ; and, on her part, Russia en-
gaged. that none should be• formed. by her sub-
jects, or under her authority, south of the same
parallel of latitude.. The claim of Russian so-
vereignty, consequently, may be regarded as hav-
ing been virtually quieted, and fixed at the,. lati-
tude of 54 degrees 40 minutes north. By . the
third article of the-treaty with Spain, of the VA
of February, 1819, the boundary line between
her former possessions and, those of, Uoited
States, is described by, Abe, Sabiee,. the Red
River, the Arkangnsi antl,,,latitude 42 degrees
north, to the South Sea, or—Pacifig,ocean.. To
this arrangement it.is •understoed the new govern-
ment of Mexico has made no- objection, and is
willing to confprm. All the. territorial.,rights of
Spain, north ollatitude 42, degrees, ,noith,:have
therefore been transferred to the United.. States.
The Spanish and Russian
,Claims having been thus,
amiably settled, there out/. remains .the,.eonflict-
ing claims of the United States and Great Britain.
The right of the United States to territory 011 the
north-west coast rests upon that of Spain, which,
as far as actual discovery could give it, Was -prior
to the right of -etiory other nation ; upon, the
entrance of the COlombia river, and the-name
given to it by Capttio Gray, an American citi-
zen ; upon the exploration of the same river, over
land, by Captains. Lewis and Clarke ; upon. the
settlement of Astoria, at the mouth of the Co-
lumbia river, under the' protection of the United
States ; and upon the restoration of that establish.
ment, as an American possession, in 1818, by
rest Britain. According to the letter of Mr.
Rush to Mr. Adams, the British Plenipotentiaries
opposed the claim of •the United States upon.
grounds extremely vague, and entirely unsatis-
factory. They adverted to the navigation of
Drake and Cook in that direction, to trading
posts said to have been formed in several
places with tire consent of the Indians, and
insisted that the unoccupied parts of the
North West Coast were as open as they• had
ever been for the formation of new settlements.
The leading object of each party has been to gain
the sovereignty of the country through whicit the
Colombia river and its tributary streams pass.
The pretensions of Great Britain, from' the feeble
manner in which her negotiators were enabled
to support them, amount, in reality, to nothing
more than tire occasional excursions of her traders
among the Indians, and such transient fixtures as
were necessary to their comfort for the moment.
These cannot be ultimately sustained against the
right of the United States, founded, as it is, upon
the surveys of the shore, up to a very high nor-
them latitude, by the first European discoveries
of America ; upon the examination of the mouth
of the Colombia by Captain G ray, and the MI.
tiolllll expedition of Lewis and Clarke from the
Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. If
Great Britain had not considered Astoria, on the
Columbra, which had been taken by her agents
during tire late war, as a part of the territory of
the United States, she would hardly have restored
it in 1818, in fulfilment of the stipulation in the
first article of the treaty of Ghent. To compre-
hend the subject more fully, the reader will under-
stand, that by the 3d article of the convention be.
tweets the United States and Great Britain, of the
20th of October, 1818, the country and waters in
dispute were, for the space of ten years, to be
free and open to the vessels, citizens, and sub-
jects, of the two powers. Mr. Adams, in his
in-
structions to Mr. Rush, laid it down as a basis of
negoriat ion, that the application of Colonial prin-
ciples of exclusion could not be uthnitted by the
United States as lawful, upon any part of the
Northwest Coast of America, or as belonging to
airy European nation. This basis is assumed
upon the fact of the independence of the Ameri-
can nations, the rights of territory surviving to
them, and the necessity there will be for room for
the accommodation of their future population.

Mr. Adams viewed it as a necessary consequence
of the existing state of things, that henceforth
the American continents would no longer be sub-
ject to colonization. lie instructed Mr. Rush to
propose to the British government an article simi-
lar to the third article of the convention of the
20th of October, 1818 ; and With a view to
draw a definite line of demarkation for the
future, to stipulate that no settlement should
hereafter he made on the Northwest Coast, or
on any of the islands thereto adjoining, by citi-
zens of the United States north of latitude 51, nor
by British subjects either south of 51 or north of
55. Latitude 51 is the degree at which the Uni-
ted States are willing to limit their future settle-
ment, it being understood that the Columbia
river branches that far north. As, however,•Mr.
Adams observed, the boundary line already tau
in latitude 49 to the Stony Mountains, Mr. Rush
was authorized, should it he earnestly insisted
on by Great Britain, to consent to carry it, in
continuance, on the same parallel, to the sea.—
Mr. Rush, eventually, submitted to the British
Plenipotentiaries a paper proposing the conti-
nuance of the third article of the convention of
the 20th of October, 1818, for a further term.of
ten years, and limiting British settlements within
the latitudes of 51 and 55 north. The British
Plenipotentiaries also submitted a paper, pro-
posing to annul the stipulation of the third article
of the convention in question, and to substitute,
as a boundary line, front the Rocky Mountains,.
the 49th degree of latitude, to the point where.
that parallel strikes the great north-easternmosl
'bran►ch of tbeUregon, or Columbia river ; thence-
down along the middle of the Oregon or Colum..
bin, to- its junction with the Pacific Ocean; the,
'navigation of the whole channel to be perpetually
"free to the citizens and subjects of both parties
no settlements to be made by either party within,
the limits assigned to the other ; settlements al-
ready formed to continue to be occupied, at •their
pleasure of the proprietors, for ten years ; and, for
the same period, citizens and subjects to pass and
repOS, as heretofore, by land and water, to trade.
as formerly, without duty or impost, subject only
to the local regulations which, in other-respects,
the parties may find it necessary to enforce within.
their respective jurisdictions. From this exposi-
tion of the American claim. and the British pre-
tensions,it will be seen that the main point of differ-
ence between the United States and Great Britain
on this subject is, that the former are willing to
contioue'the boundary line along the 49th degree
of northern latitude to the Pacific Ocean, while
the latter wishes to pursue that parallel no far-
ther than where it will strike the great north•
easternmost branch of the Oregon or Colombia,
and then to follow thut river to the sea, retaining.
for British subjects, in common with American
citizens, the free oavigatioo of the whole cha►tuel
of the stream. At this stage of the negociatiou
the further prosecution of it appears to have beets
suspended. In the correspondence between Mr.
Adams and Mr. Rush, it is gratifying to perceive
that the territorial tights of the country were
Maintained with a full knowledge of particulars,
and with great ability in argument,—(Americto4
Paper.) •

COAL MARKET, APRIL 7.
Burdon, 323 61—Beaumont, 29s 6d—Dean's Primrose, 305--
Feliint Main, 30.4—Heaton, 34s 9d—Hebburn Main, 34
Jiglyweil, .31s—Killingworth, 34s—Old Walker, 30s--Pelaw'
32s 3d—Percy East, 29s 3d—Pontop Windsor, 29s—ShiP"te'
-29s—Tantiold Moor, 32s—Townley, 32s—Wylatn 33s 9d
Walls End Bewicke and Co. 37s lid—Walls End' Hotspur,
33* 3d—Walls End Hilda, 32s Bd—Walls End Newmareb,
34s 61.-,—Walls End Northumberland, 33s ad—Walls End
Riddell's, 3Gs—Walls End Russell's, 36s 3d—Walls En 4
Walker, 348.6d—Walls End Stewart's small, 10s—Stone Cost,
48s—Walls End Tees, 31s—Howes Main, 27s•—Russell),,
Lyon's Main; 36s—Walls End Lambton, 37s 9d—Walls End
Stewart's; 37c9d—Russell's Hetton's Walls End, 37,1 W.--
Ships at market, 581—Ships sold, 40—Unsold, 18i.

COURSE OF EXCFIIINGE, , April 7.
iv 10 C. F.
Amite, dant
Ditto, at Sight l2 7
Rot tet.dani - .. l2 H
Antwerp l4 1 i
Hantburgh 313 u fir, Cs.
Altonn 35 l ti t*s.
US.2,i.
Paris,3 Day's sight
Ditto
Bourdeaux,dit to
Heflin •
Frankforton the I,.iita .... :stii Es. Money
Peter:burgh .
•
Vienna 10 26
Triestc.....l
Madrid
Cadiz i /5i Effectin,
Bilboa
Barcelona
ieville .. ..... 35
Gilnaltat
Leghorn
Gel,,,n ' .. 13 -Venice, Ital. Lir 416
Malta
Palermo
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
1)141,1M .... i; Cork lt pei Cent.
BULLION.

t'u►trl;al (iol4l,in Coin
Ftireio: Gild, in It ►►>..,
New 1/ml6loollz
New 1)ollara
Silver Stand:lt d Iu 11314,

1.0 0 0 per 01
3 17 6
. 3 14 6
0 4 94
0 4 1111

BIRTHS.
On the 7th instant, at his house in Oower-streeo, the LadY
J. F. Daniell, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at DentOrd House, the Lady of 0. /`
Cherry, Esq.; of a daughter. f
On the sth inst., the Lady of James Webster, Esq., 0-,
inure, Forfarahire, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at Farnham, Surrey, 'Thomas Poarefej 061.
Highway House, Frayle, Hants, to the Hon. Caroline Kell
eldest daughter of the late Lord Charles Beauchamp Kerr,
niece of the late Marquess of Lothian.
On the 6th inst., at Kennington, Mr. Win. Lynn, of LOl'
don-street, Fenchurch-street, to Miss J. Lyall, Nowingtun.
place.
On the sth inst., at St. Mary's Islington, the Rev. Edniund,
N. Dean, N. A., of Weston, Herefordshire, to Entmat 4°3.
daughter of William Thomas, Esq., Lombard-street.

DIED.
At St. Mary's Clyst Rectory, Devon, in the 9th year of ber
age, Charlotte Amelia, only daughter of the Rev. Thos., strong°
On Wednesday, the sth inst., at Ciarendon.place, Edgware-
road, Elizabeth, the wife of Wm. Fetherston, Esq.
In Douglass, Isle of Man, Lieut.. Col. Nicholls, late 971 a
Foot, aged 49.
On the 3d inst., R. L. Willoughby, of the Audit Office.
On the 6th inst., in Hart.street, Ihoomsbury.square,
Power, aged 85.
On Thursdly, the 6th inst., at Paradise.row, Rothelithe,
Jane, wife of Charles Rowland, EN.

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