The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-09 00:00:00

CAPTAIN HELSHAM.

It will doubtless be in the 'recollection of our
readers, that in the month of April last a duel Ives
fought on the sands at Boulogne, between Captain
George Helsham, of the Kilkenny Militia, and Lieu-
tenant Joseph Crowther, of the Royals, and which
proved fatal to the latter, who fell dead at the first
discharge of his adversary's pistol.
The affair c.;iginated in Captain llelsham's hav-
ing publicly, at Boulogne, breaded Lieutenant
Crowther as a coward, for having, eight years pre-
viously, quietly submitted to be caned by a gentle-
man who intercepted him in his elopement from
Cheltenham with a young lady. Lieutenant Crow•
ther offered an explanation, and procured evidence,
for the purpose of showing that he had in vain
sought the reparation due from one gentleman to
another from the person alluded to : Crytain Hel-
sham either conceived, or affected to conceive, the
evidence inconclusive, and refused to retract his
charge. The result was the hostile meeting, in
which Lieutenant Crowtivcr
It now appears that Mr. Le:inhert Malony, who
was second to the unfortunate deceased, made such
a representp,:ion to his friends, as induced them to
institute an inquiry, and the result was, the obtain-
ing of such evidenee as led them to apply to the
Secretary of State to have Mr. Malony admitted
as a witness for the Crown, in order to the effeel ive
carrying on of a criminal proceeding against Captain
Helsham. ThQ application was acceded to, and
yesterday, in consequence, the following proclama-
tion, ox information as it is there called, appeared in
the Government Police Gazette, viz:—
" Whereas, George Helsham a Captain in the
,
Kilkenny MLitt, is charged with feloniously killing
Lieutenant Joseph Crowther, of the Royals, in it
duel at Boulogne in France, on the Ist of April last,
and whereas Lembert Malony, second to Lieutenant
Crowther in the said duel, has declared that Capt.
Helsham shot Lieutenant Crowther unfairly, and
has been admitted King's evidence; and whereas,
upon Mr. Malony's depositions, and the affidavits of
other gentlemen, who were accidentally present at
the duel, warrants have been issued for the appre-
hq4sion of the said George Helsham, who was
lately at Colonel Conway's, at Horndean, near
Portsmouth, but has fled the country to Boulogne
in France. A very handsome reword will be paid
by Messrs. Alliston and Locke, solicitors, of Free-
man's-court, Cornhill, to any person who will appre-
hend and ledge the body of . George Helsham in
any his Majesty's gaols. Any person harbour-
the above felon will be prosecuted,"

Qa the night of Thursday last, the Thomas
end Jane, WILLIAZI COLITAN, master, belonging to Cork,
and bound from thence to Southampton, with a cargo of
butter, was completely wrecked near Padstow, and, we
reset to add, the whole of the crew perished. The re-
mains of the unfortunate vessel were discovered in a cove,
in the pariah of St. Mervyn, into which it is supposed she
ran, as affording the only chance of saving the lives of
these who were on board. In this how, we lament 10 say,
they were disappointed. About 6.00 fir kiss (if butt( r balm
beta saved= and tAiten to Ncistow.— IVest