The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-30 00:00:00

HORRIBLE AFFAIR

PARIS, JAN. 16.—A letter from Grenada contains tie
following account of a most extraordinary and horrible
event, which has taken place in the ancient capital of the
Moors :—On the Bth of December last, the Feast of the
Conception, the church appertaining to a convent of nun:.
at Grenada was filled as usual with a crowd of the faithful
at high mass. After the ceremony, the crowd dispersed
and die only persons who lingered in the church were twc
taialry bfeers. They were also in the act of returning;
When a nun, who had remained behind the rest of the sis-
terhood, made a sign to the officer who was following his
comrade, that she wished to speak to him. He ac-
cordingly told his comrade to wait for him outside
the church, and he returned to speak to the nun, when
the following dialogue took place :—" You are a man of
honour and discretion, I presume, sir ?" " Yes, sister, I
lan both the one and the other." "Are you willing to
render me an important service ?" " Yes, sister." " I
will not conceal from you that the service I require at your
hands requires not only discretion, but extraordinary in-
trepidity; knowing this, are you still willing to render me
the service I require of you 9" " Yes, sister, lam deter-
mined." " Very well, when you hear the Convent bell
strike half-past twelve, to-night, be at such a gate (par-
ticularizing the gate); I shall be at the other side to
open it, on your knocking twice, and you shall then
learn what it is I require of you. Will you be faithful to
the rendezvous 9" " Yes; sister, I shall be ttere." " Well,
I depend on you ; adieu !" They pe.-,ted, and the officer
quitted the church. On rejoin;:ig his comrade, he told
him what had taken place and asked him if he should
keep the appointment . The other on being informed that
the nun was abesejt thirty, and not ill-formed, advised him
to keep the P :ppointment, and offered, for fear of accidents
to
aecore-
ea ,
ny him to the gate, at which the nun was to
e.
b
Ace,'" rdingly, at the appointed hour, the two officers
f:re et the gate, which, on the concerted signal being
gi';en, was opened by the nun.—The chosen officer entered,
end the other remained close to the gate, to watch
the conclusion of this extraordinary adventure. The
nun said to the officer who had entered, " You are a
man of courage and honour, and are entitled to my ut-
most gratitude." The night being very dark, and the pas-
sages through which they had to go obscure, the nun made
him hold a corner of her robe, and in this manner con-
ducted him to her cell, where there was a lamp a-light.
She made him sit down, and invited him to take a glass of
liquor with her, at the same time producing two bottles.
She filled him a glass out of one, and took a little herself
out of the other. After he had emptied his glass, she told
him to
.go to one side of the bed, while she placed herself
at the other. The officer obeyed. The nun then said,
" are alone—my door is fastened—look !" and at the
same moment she proceeded to pull down the bed-
clothes, and discovered, to his great horror and amaze-
Meta, the dead body of a monk, who had been po-
enarded. The nun then continued—" You must take upon
your shoulders this body, and carry it outside the convent
I will light you to the gate of the first court. You must
instantly obey, or you are a dead man;, for, the first
motion you make, unless it be to take up the body, I
shall shoot you through the head ;" and suiting the action
to the word, she drew a pistol from her bosom, and pre-
sented it at him. " I know," added she, " that my own
life will be the forfeit if you refuse; for, after shooting
you, I have another pistol for myself." The officer, seeing
no other ineans of escape, took up the body on his
shoulders, and, accompanied by the nun, who carried a
dark ',lantern, proceeded to the gate by which he had en-
tered, and on issuing from it, threw down his horrible bur-
den at the feet ofhis comrade, who was waiting to laugh
with him, at, what he supposed was a pious love intrigue.
After recounting to his friend the almost incredible adven-
tures in which- he-.had been engaged, they both resolved
to repair instantly to the Corregidor, and informing him
of the circumstances. They had proceeded scarcely a hun-
dred paces from the convent, when the officer who had
brought out the body, suddenly complained of the most
excruciating and burning pains in his stomach; he soon
after fell upon the paveinent, and in a few moments ex-
pired. His friend, beside himself with terror, ran with
the utmost speed to knock up the Corregidor, and inforM
him of this tissue of horrors. Notwithstanding the exer-
tions of the magistrates and the police, no discovery has
as yet been made of the female demon who perpetrated
this double murder.

PAUPER LUNATICS.

The following is a statement of the Pauper Lunatics in
the County of Middlesex, in the year 1825, from Returns
made to the Clerk of the Peace :

WEsrmissrEft DIVISION.—St. Margaret and St. John, 21 ;
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 34 ; St. George, Hanover-square, 52 ;
St. James, SO ; St. Mary-le-Strand, 5 ; St. Clement Danes, 22 ;
St. Paul, Covent-garden, 4 ; St. Anne, 9--Total, 177.

HOLBORN DIVISION..--St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury,
52 ; St. Andrew and St. George the Martyr, 36 ; Saffron-hill
and Rolls Liberty, 5 ; St. Pancras, 38 ; Hampstead, 10 ; St.
Marylebone, 73 ; Paddington, 2—Total, 216.
FINSBURY DIVISION.---.St. Sepulchre, 5 ; Clerkenwell, 16 ;
Islington, 20 ; Stoke Newington, I ; Hornsey, 3 ; Finchley, 1 ;
Barnet, I—Total, 47.

TowER.• Drvlsrom.—Whitechapel, 32 ; Christ Church, 9 ;
Shoreditch, 87 ; Hackney, 16 ; Bethnal Green, 15 ; Stratford,
; Bow, 1 ; Bromley, 2 ; Poplar, 7 ; Rateliff, 6 ; Limehouse,
St. Catherine, 2 ; Smithfield,
10; Shadwell, 8 ; Wapping,;
2—Total, 150.

XENSINGTONIDIYISION.—Kensington, 4 ; Chelsea, 1A; Ham -
mersmith, 4 ; Chiswick, 2 ; Ealinn, 1 ; Acton, 2—Total, 23.
THE HUNDREDS.--Edmonton, 19 ; Gore, 9 ; Eltborne, 12 ;
Spelthorne, 9 ; and Isleworth, 9—Total, 58.
The weekly payments made by the Parishes to the Licetked
Houses for their care and maintenance vary at Bs., Bs. 6d., 93.,
10s., and 10s. 6d. a head, per week, exclusive of clothing and
medicine, and those confined in parish workhouses are computed at
35. 6d., 4s. 6d., :is., 75., Is. 6d., per week each.

This return not being made on oath the Committee appointed
at the last. Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to inquire into the pre-
sent state and condition of the Pauper Lunatics, have determined
to avail themselves of the Bth Section of the Act of the 55th Geo.
111. cap. 48—which empowers Justices at Petty Sessions to or-
der Overseers to return lists verified on oath of all Lunatics being
paupers within their respective parishes, specifying their name,
sex, and age, and whether dangerous or not, and for what time
they have lest their senses, with,a certificate by a Medical Prac-
titioner as to their state and condition, and directed that warrants
should he transmined by the Clerk of the Peace, to the District
Magistrates, requesting them to compel returns.

. A remarkable instance of sudden death occurred
last week at Bishopton, near Stockton. A person named Pever-
eL'iitlilsg employed by the clerk of the parish to dig a grave,
and, `,! gipped longer-than usual, his wife went to look after him,
round hi ,
to standing in the grave in rather a leaning position
quite dead.—gerth'• ick-Advertiser.
On the2oth in •
stant, as the nines coach was pass-
ing down Digiswewn
evening, Mr. whiteho , near Welwyn, about six o'clock in the
tin box fall on the grZde, jun. who was in the dickey, heard a
the road for a a
Ind on. looking behind him he per-
ceived_e considerable distance strewed with parcels,
behind
til
and a man hanging
agcol 'irho was busily employedoach,
in throwing out the Inge fro
the alarm, the man- ran away -' the "hoot. °ll Mr' W. giving
passengers raised a hue-and-
cry, and pursued him ;,- buds succeeded in • • • . light .
in which was an accomplice, and they drove
gaining a cart,
laced
hoveeff at a rapid rate.—
The parcels were collected, and rep
their former situation ;
and on arriving atßedford all were found'
right,
i Thepicktgt. was
secured with a lock, which the thief had Succeedednt. n
belongin
g
A few days-ago, as some harriers
to a
gentleman near 'this city were passing over a
pieee of fallow,
that
of the persons with them thought he observed the head aduck
one
d
moving just.above ground ; on approaching the spot, he fond
such.was- the fact, and he extricated the poor animal from
~,:
tou/b,ft to which no doubt Reynard had consigned it, and, by:
4. nlakiug "-assurance doubly sure," had pressed the earth- down
with Isis feet; -but the duck having got its head free, Reynard was
dePrived!ef hisranticipated meal, for which, indeed, he seemed in
no' hurry,_ A44o,.duck bad - been incarcerated at least forty-eight
hours Worcester Journal.