The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

MURDER CAUSED BY JEALOUSY.

A German, of the name of Thomas Losch, about
forty-tour years of age, formerly of the tl,itd
battalion of the GOth regiment of foot, but new
an out-pensioner of Chelsea College, perpetrated
a dreadful murder on Friday tight, on Mary Ann,
his wile, to whom be was married about two
years since at Chelsea Chinch. She is represent-
ed to he about '27 years of agt., was tali, and scent-
ed to be a woman of prepossessin4 appearance.
Richard Maybank, constable of the night at the
watch-house in Simmond's-street, Sloane-stptaie,
gave the following account of the transaction, as
tar ti) it had come to his knowledge :
About eight o'clock on Friday night, the pri,
Boner was brought to the .vateh-house, and.wi th-
out the slightest promise or suggestion, the pri-
soner admitted having committed the act with la
knife which he had thrown away, opposite the
Three Crown,. He said his reason was, that he
saw something in his wire's coodoei tn.it he did
not like. The wound was six inches long front
the abdomen upwards, and twarlv the whole of
her intestines were protruding through the tsammi.
—The cries of the filifOrtilUAte creature were too
appalling to be described. She was taken to St.
George's Hospital in pain the most excruciating,
and every thing that skill and humanity could sug-
gest was done for her, but she did not long sur-
vive. During the time Maybank was at the hos-
pital, a woman n3tned liarrotiv b+ ought witness
the knife he had produced helot e the Magistrate,
which she had found near the spot described by
the prisoner. Witness then returned to the watch-
house, and before he produced the !mite to the
prisoner, asked aim what kind of a knife it was
he had perpetrated the act with .? 'the prisaner
replied, that it was a long knife with a white
handle. Mayhank then produced it, and showed
it to him, and the prisoner said—". 1 ant sure that
is the knife." He was then locked tip for the
night, and in the mottling, it being understood
that the untottllilale woman Was dead, preluira.
tiOUS Were made to COnVey hial to Queen-sTiare
for examination.

While he was being conveyed to the office, he
stated, that he overheard a conversation which
took place in the Coach and Horses pohlic-
house between his wite and a man with whom
he strongly suspected she had indulged in acts
of concubinency. In the course of this conver-
sation, she said she would go home with him
(the prisoner) to No. I, Exeter-street (where it:
appeared they lived), and wait with him until be
was asleep; and then she would get ut► and re-
turn and continue with him (the person wiilx
whom she held the conversation) all night ; and
that he, the prisoner, having a knowledge of her
infidelity, was determined to thwart them in their
criminal views, and hence he had resoled upon
the commission of this barbarous deed.

It vas also mentioned, that he had conteir►-
plrated the pe►formance of the horrible act for
nearly a fortnight. He is abort rive feet seven or
eignt inches high, and very fat froit► being well-
looking.

After the examination, he was placed in a coach,
and escorted to Tot Prison, till the vet-•
diet of a Coroner's Jury shall be know:).
Another account says, that the perpetrator of
this horrid act was a Serjeant in the 60th regiment
of toot ; and having been a cotssi(Jerable number
of years abroad, t rewar:led with a petisinn
horn Chelsea Hospital. Some time since be w,s
mairieu in Chelsea Church to the deceased : he
lived with his Wife but a few months, when find-
ing that his pension would not support them both,
he sold it, am+ giving hts wile a small share or the
purchase-money, he embarked for Ostend, o here
he stopped some tune. During his absence, his
wite expended her small piriance, rind became a.
prosti!nte. A short time since, she was surptiied
by the arrival of her hnsbal.4.l at her lodging,s, to
whom she communicated her way of life, and on
bring pottered a portion of the wages of his
wife's infamy, it is said be piotessed binpsell well
satisfied with ber conduct. They accordingly again
cohabited With each other, but he ill-treated her.

MOST HORRIBLE Muttout.--We hare received
the following account of the barbarous 'Murder
of a new-born bastard child by its mother, at
Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, on Friday Oct. 2 :
" A woman of Dunstable observing a great
smoke proceeding from het neighbour's chimney,
sent her daughter to inquite the cause; a person
said she was locked in the room, where the
smoke proceeded from, and could not get out, as
she could not find the key of the door ; the girl
informed her mother, and upon procuring assist-
ance, broke the door open, and found a female
about 22 years of age, in the act of burning the
pieces of flesh of her new-born illegitimate citilcl
the entrails were constsmed previous to breaking
the door open. The skull was lying by the side
of the barbarous mother, divided into four parrs:
the body, arms, awl legs, were cut in pieces of
about three inches, for the purpose of consuming
in the flames. It appeared that the mother beat
the intant's brains out against the post of the
bedstead, and then proceeded to dissect the hfidy,
A Coroner's fives( sat ,on Saturday Idlt, anti re-
turned a verdict of •‘ Wilful Murder"
mother, Hannah &Then, a native of Duitstable,
and who was holly committed to take her Ilia! at
the ensuing Bedford Assizes."

SUDDEN DRATHS.----A1) awful instance of sudden
death occurred on Saturday in Little Dr-my-lane.
Mr. Thomas Parker, beadle of the parish of St.
Mary-le-Strand, after bring out in the morning,
returned home to breakfast, bringing in with him
some hot rolls. He drshed his wife to prepare
some coffee and have it ready, and that he would
be in to breakfast in a few minutes. He aent out
in perfect health, and fell iii the street in an apo-
plectic fit, and was carried home senseless. Dr.
Donahue of the Adelphi, Surgeon Stanton of the
Strand, and Surgeon Langley of Newcastle-street.
were immediately called to his assistance, who
used every remedy to recover him without effect.
'f hire were no fewer than four persons canvissing
for the office in less than an hour after his detti.
—A few evenings ago, Mr. Ddwson, oracle of
Billingsgate Vard, tell down in the street in a
bimilar ►unntrer, and exiiired almost immediately,

F(EDERA AFRICAN&

[No. VII.]

When we regard the patriotic Insurrection, in
!Spain as the fruit of those flagitious and bare-
"faced acts of injustice
.and perfidy by which
Napoleon placed his brother on the. Throne,
and then reflect 011 the consequences of that
event which so powertolly contributed to his
-downhill, and the exaltation of his hated enemy, it
'is not diffieolt to SVe in it, 011 that account even,
Ihe hand Ot a retributory Providence. In fact' it
has been cOmmonly so vewesl, even by those who
are tint ill g-tVier;el too williog to recognise the
Piciue governnient in the affairs of, men. But if
a-series Of events by which a perfidious usurpa-
tion was panished, produced at the same time de-
iiveratice and reward •to a people who had, by
`their penitence and reformation, reconciled them-
selves to Heaven, the providential character of
those events will be so much the more conspicu-
ous. That effect will be still stronger, if it should
Appear on further inquiry, that the sane events
hare been severe and uncompensated calamities on
another people, who, having incurred the saute
wilt with the former, hardened thetnselves against
the example of their penitence, and continued the
provocat ion.
I say, that the indications of a providential dis-
position will, in this case, he the clearer, because,
thongh in the contrivances of human wisdom '
means are getterally adapted to a single end, and
rarely can be chosew with so -much tOresight and
skill as to act at once directly, collaterally, and by
recoil for the 'pemitiction of different and appa-
rently opposi'e consequences all conducive to the.
lame general plan, such combinations are ordi-
nary characteristics of the works of God, both in
the natural and the moral world. The deeper
we are able to penetrate into physiCal causes, the
more we discover of such complex and profound
contrivance. We see it. also. in the ordinary
course of Pxovidencettowards men.and nations.—
The evil cote3equences of .vice and fully to the cti-
minal agent .himself are often in their natural
tendencies Om: rewards of virtue and wisdom in
.others, and the means also of collateral good.—
And its those cases which Scripture has taught its
to ascribe to the peculiar providence of God, we
find, for the Most part, the same plurality of ends.
in a single, dispensation. Thus the taking of Ba-
bylon by Cyrus was at once the accomplishment
of prophecy, the punishment of the. Babyloniab
Monarch, the eventual deliverance of. the Israel-
ites from their penal captivity, and the restitu-
tion of the Temple in which the Messiah was
to appear, and at the same time the reward of
Cyrus himself. as a chosen instrument whose
glory and aggrandisement were foretold.
If then the obduracy of the Spanish nation, in
regard to the Slave Tiede, was, in point of fact,
at once illustrated and punished by the same Re-
volution which was.a just retribution on France,
and a source of deliverance and glory to Eng-
land, we tltave new and legitimate grounds for
the conclusion f wish to maintain. To deter-
mine whether suds has been the case, let us advert
mext to .