The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-25 00:00:00

LATE MURDER OF MR. PHILLIPS.

The Journal d'ilmiens gives the following
ex-
tract from the iudicuuent against Frederic, the
German, who is accused of having murdered Mr.
Phillips. The cause is carried before the Prevotal
Court of the Department of the Somme :

Phillips, u fruit-merchant of Lond(in, had, for
several years, empldyed as an agent at Dieppe the
above-rlAmed Frederic Freiliangen; Phillips landed
at . Calais towards the latter end of List September,
with money for his comovrcial transactions, and
hail appointed Frederic Freihangen' to meet him
at the hotel of the Tete de PALut, at- Abbeville, on
the 7th October. There they met accordingly,
and set off together the same day, bet wee!' seven
and right o'clock in the evening,,. to izo to Dieppe.
They travelled in a cabriolet, drawn by one horse,
with which Freihangen had come Irons Dieppe to
Abbeville.

Arrived a little beyond the village of Miauny,
they alighted, and it was there that Freihangen,
having armed himself with some large flints that
were lying about, struck Phillips on the head, aril
fractu►ed his skull. He then (bagged the body
into the fields; about fifty paces from the road
side, and rifled it of money and a watch. This
double eri.ne being tints perpetrated, he remOunt-
ed the cabriolet, and arrived at the town Of Eu
about two o'clock in the morning, where he
alighted at the inn of Sienr Durorry..:

The next day, between seven and eight o'clock,
he ordered some water to be brought him to wash
his bands, still dyed with blood, and to cleanse
some parts of his clotiies, whiei rvcre also bloody.
Not having sufficient water to wash his riding
coat, he went into a neighbouring park and
washed it in the water.

On Friday, .the I Oth of October, Freihangen
was arrested, while returning to ?Abbeville. They
totind upon his person a sum amounting to about
157 francs, almost nil in gold, a watch, and some
papers.
There were many spots Of blood in the interior
of the cabriolet'; they found also three gloves all
bloody, one of which belonged to Freihangen, and
two to Phillips.
Since his arrest the accused has endeavoured
to destroy himself, by it.flicting, with a razor,
three large wounds, one upon his throat, and two
upon his left 'ann.
.In consequence of these facts. the Prevotal Court
has declared itself compel rut, as there are suffi-
cient grounds of suspicion against Freihangen, of
homicide voluntarily committed, followed by rob.
bery; in a ptiblic place.

On Tuesday last a human skiletat was dug up
in the garden of Mrs. Aldridge, at Maidenhead.
The hones appear as if they had laid there three
or four years, and are doubtless the relit-pies of
sun►e unfortunate victim to assassination. A cot-
tage had been built near the place by Mr. Joshua
Aldridge, nearly six years since, the garden in-
closed, and premises let to the notorious bra►►cis
Povey, now a prisoner in Reading gaol, on a
charge of house-breaking. ey erected a goose-
shed on the spot, under %Odell the bones were
fonntl, and this accounts for their remaining so
long undiscovered, although the garden was ire--
quently dug, and the bones but a little..nistance
beneath the surface of the earth. Since the ap-
prehension of Francis Povey, his brother William.
took possession of the premises, tie: Mrs. Ald-
rige improved them for her own habitation, and
entered thereon a month ago ; no other tenant
ever occupied the house. Au enquiry is takillg
plac:: on the subject, and a labouring man, named
• IVilliam Allen, is recollected to have disappeared
from Maidenhead nearly four.years since : it was
supposed at the time he had gone on a v sit to his
sister, hat it is.now understood that she has never
Iseen ur heard (rum hilts since that period.

THE SUN:

BOLEN QUIS DiCERE FALSCI.III AUDEAT.?

LONDON,
TUESDAY, NaVEMBER 25, 1817.

The Paris Papers of Saturday last, which were
due this [naming, have not come to hand.

Letters from St. Thomas's, dated October 10,
have been received this ntorni!ig, which state the
arriOal. of. a great number of French Officers
there, in order to join the Patriotsin South Ame-
rica. A. vessel had also arrived from France,
loaded with arms and ammunition of every lcind,
as well as severkrl ships from England, full of
Officers, to support the Independents.

THE FUNDS.—To-morrow Will beSettling7day;
scarcely any business has been done, the Brokers
being.principally occupied in making up the ac-
counts for to-morrow ; Consols are very heavy,
being one this morning at 63, but at eleven
o'clock they were 8341. The Commissioners
gave 834.

The Helmsley, CREASER, frAhl Archangel
London ;- the Diana, of Berwick, from America ;
the Caroline, of Copenhagen,- hound to • Alalaga,
and nine other Vesstts, are lost off the coast of
Orkney and Sit/014nd. Two of them are sop-

posed to be the Providence, BELL, and the Cain=
perdothrz. _

The Letter from our 'valuable COlTESpOlldellt
LANFItANC has drawn some comments from The
British Press of this day, but as we are promised
a seties of Letters it) support of our Ecclesiastical
Establishment from that admirable 'Writer, we
do not think it necessary for us at Present to re-
peat our own opiniong, as we arc sure
,that we
could not trust the subject to better hanits than
those of LANFIZANC. • We may, however, just
observe, in answer to the charge of The British
Press, that. we " recite thread-bare topics on this
subject," that when our NATIONAL CHURCH and
INVALUABLE CONSTITUTION are endangered by
the inroads o(POPERY, 'we shall feel it to be our
duty to Urge.any arguments which the wisdom of
our Ancestors have employed in support of those
vitally interesting objects; regardless of the sneers
of infidelity,-and the artifices of sophistry, and
that it shall be the chief purpose of THE SUN to up-
hold, at 0H times, .and. on all occasions, TDB
PEOTESTANT ASCENDANCY.

TnE QUEEN, &C.—At twenty minutes before
seven yesterday morning, the Duke of: CLARENCE
left Windsor in a post-chariot and four, to pre-
cede the Queen, in her journey to Bath. A little
after seven, the QUEEN, accompanied by the
Plincess ELIZABETH, left the Castle, followed by
their attendants in three carriages and boor. Two
of the carriages took post horses at the Star Inn,
Maidenhead ; the carriage of her MAJESTY. passed
On with tier own horses, to a relay posted at the
house near the Thicket. The Royal Party ap-
peared to be in good health, but melancholy was
depicted out their countenances. They passed
through Reading at half-past nine o'clock,, but it
was supposed that her MAJESTY ‘VOlild not alight
unt:l they reached M.lrlborough, which they
would probably (I() abunt one. The loyal y
did not change horses at Newbury ; the relay
of horses, which had been posted there, wereor-
dered to Meet the Royal carriage at a short dis-
tance Iron] the town, and the QUEEN pa.,sed ra-
pidly through it.

On Saturday summonses were issued for the as-
sembling of a Cabinet Council yestcrtiKy, which
took place at two o'clock, the Foreign
The membirs present t;ere,--
The Lord .ChaneellOr, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of
tVest nurland. the Earl of liturowhy, Viscount sidniontli,
Viscount Castlereagh, k'-sr] Bathitrst, the Chancellor 'ut the
Exchequer, ;Mr. ellesley Pole, ltr. Canninz,
They continued in delibetation till near five
o'clock. After the breaking up of the Council,
Viscount CASTLEREAGH %Mit to the Commander-
in-Chiet's Office, in the Horse Guards, where the
Noble Viscount remained some time.

A Cabinet Council was leeld last Friday, which
vas attended, by the same Members, at the Fo-
reign Office in riawning-street. This Council satH
about tbe same Owe.

Sl'. ' PAUL'S cA 4' I I D !Lk T.

~.

We have authority to i.lta-te, that thc rcr-lf'
which havb beien WatitOnly inserted in some of tl'
Public Prints, deciailiig that the Misoa CiNo:
of this Cathedral askernhiftil foi the purpose Of of,
dering Money to lie taken on the day of 'the it
.
terthetit of the Princess CnAtmoirrit, are nia!ii,
nant falsehoods. - We have authority likewise 1,
Say, that- it any p'erson who piid money on tfo
nielaneholY erecasirin, wilt, identify to the Can.'
ResidentiarY, the Person wiiri received it, aq
slienr that it was demanded of him, as the pri'
of his adniission, the complaint Shiill nicer wild
due attention. A Weekly Paper of Sunday last,
contained One of the most false and scandaluoi
Statements on this subject that perhaps was eve
preschted.to•the Mille. It comprized an infamnal
Libel upon the whole of the Clergy belonging t/
the Cathedral, e otiveied in the most offensivi
terms ;
,but, as this infamous Libel will beconi
the subject of legal
,nOtice, we forbear to toad
upon it any farther, except to 'spy, that the re
spectable Body in question Stand too high in ge'
neral estimation to be injured by•tbre•wanton at'
tacks of .anbavmous defamation.