The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-27 00:00:00

AWFUL DEATH.

Yesterday an inquest was taken in Oxford, before
W. CECIL, the City Coroner, on view of the body
of Sarah Seabright.

Mary Sylvester deposed—l was at Mrs. Sea-
bright's house about 11 o'clock yesterday morning.
She was at home alone; she was then in good
health. I had been accustomed to sleep at Mrs.
Seabright's when I was out of place, and I used to
leave my clothes there. When I called on Tuesday
morning, I asked Airs. Seabright for the things
I had left—and she gave me a petticoat, a night
cap, and a pocket handkerchief. I said, Mrs. Sea-
bright you have not given me one of my caps.
She said, she had not got one there. I replied, I
saw it on the table when I was here last. Mrs.
Seabright then said, I with God may strike me dead.
and I may never go out of the house any more, if I
have it. I then left her in the house, and went into
the house next door but one, and in less than ten
h
an adjoining house) called me into Mrs. Seabright s.
minutes after I had left, Mrs. Randall (who ves.
I accordingly went, and caught Mrs. Seabright as
she was falling. She said, Oh Mary," several times,
and asked me to help her up stairs. She was so
heavy I could not get her up stairs. She died the
same evening. - I have heard her sevc ral times
complain
Navapend Wentworth,
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apothecary,e
the University
I have this
e University of Ox-
ford, .
morning examined the body of Sarah Seabright,
and I have no doubt but she died in a fit of two-
plexy.—Verdiet, " Died of apoplexy."
Stephen of
surgeon

The Voleur, a Paris Paper, states that the
DAUPHIN has refused to transact business with the new
Minister of War, General BOURMONT.
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I.PuBLIC JOURNALS.
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trO' France and this comp-
tryishieks-tieVoted a considerable spat ss in their
colirmns to speculations on the present position
of the Russian army which lately crossed the
Balkan, and have indulged in ingeniwas conjec-
tures on the fate of Constantinople. The opi-
nion, in which many of them concur, that the
capital of Turkey is now in the hands of the
Muscovites, may be correct, but it is formed out
of very scanty materials. We have nothing cer.
tain from the Russians since the dispatch of the
26th ult. No authority is given for the report
of another battle at Kirkilissia, in which the
Turkish army is said to have been again routed
and dispersed, though the fact is by no means
improbable. It is a mere rumour, stated to have
been brought to Munich by some unknown di-
plomatic agent, and thence spread by a German
paper all over Europe. The Russians, in their
official bulletins, supply us with no details, by
which the exact amount of their force to the
south of the mountains may be computed: The
same army which cleared the defiles of the Bal-
kan, and took possession of the towns on or
near the Euxine, to enable them to advance
on Constantinople, in maintaining their com-
munications both by laud and sea with their
reserves and resources, might not find itself
in sufficient numbers to advance directly to
the walls of the capital. This we admit is
mere conjecture, but it is as probable as the
conjecture on the other side. Should the
Turkish army te, the right of the Russian line of
operation;„ or, in other words, the force stated to
be collected at Adrianople be dispersed or de-
reated, there seems scarcely an obstacle to the
aril result of the campaign in the capture of the
Turkish seat of empire, the fortifications of
which arc insignificant, and incapable of defence.
'Tlane fortifications on the land side consist of a
yard' with a ditch, flanked with numerous towers,
-which have not been repaired or put in a state of
effective defence since the original conquest of
the city by its present masters.—Times.
s far as we can judge from the reports of
the Irish papers, the policeman St. Leger has
been very properly acquitted at Clonmel. Per-
jury in the interest of a faction or clan is gene-
rally deemed a merit, and there was no lack of
it at this trial. Magistrates and policemen
must, however, be supported in the execution of
their duty, for it would be preposterous to sup-
pose that order could be preserved, if policemen
are to be wantonly attacked by a mob, without
the liherty of defending themselves. We are not
sanguine enoligh to conceive that a wild and ne-
ected•ireasantry can be at once tamed down
Intq quiet and submissive citizens. We can,
therefore, make allowance for the excesses inse-
parable from such a state of society as that which
exists in the county of Tipperary. But if we
have any knowledge of human nature, nothing is
to be gained byyielding on such occasions. The
law must be enforced ; and those who imagine
they tam carry matters with a high hand, must
he met by a wholesome severity. In all coun-
tries in which the inhabitants do not look to the
law for protection, associations exist under
various names for 'offensive and defensive
imrposes. The ti;tividuals of a Clan or
Tribe, or Faction, deem themselves bound to
support each other in good or evil, and all
means by which the individuals of another clan
or tribe can be assailed are deemed justifiable.
When it was observed in behalf of Cromwell's
Judges in Scotland, that their decisions were
generally fair and impartial, which was new in
that country, the answer returned was, " De'il
thank them--a parcel of clanless rascals ;" which
was saying that a man's first duty was to defend
his own party, or clan at all hazards. In a Me-
moir presented to the French Government, on
the subject of Corsica, the writer exclaims,
" Woe to him who, on every occaijon, should
not, right or wrong, take the part of his rela-
tion !" The peasantry of Tipperary, in the same
spirit, are quite indignant that the policeman who
in self-defence shot one of their body should not
fall a victim to their vengeance. In Kentucky
a :Jury has acquitted a notorious murderer ; and
it is said without hesitation, in other parts of
America, that there is no possibility of bringing
to justice any individual belonging to the party
in power, whatever outrage he may commit.
Impartiality in the administration of justice
always supposes a great advancement in civiliza-
tion. Lord Kames observes, " That perjury
was common in the City of London, especially
among Jurymen, and makes a preamble in more
than one Statute of Henry VII. In the Dance
of Death, translated from the French, in the said
King's reign, with additions adapted to English
manners, a Juryman is introduced, who, in-
fluenced by bribes, had often given a false ver-
dict. And the Sheriff was often suspected as
accessary to the crime, by returning for Jurymen
persons of a bad character. Carew, in his account
of Cornwall, says that it was an ordinary article
in an attorney's bill to charge pro amicitia vice-
comzta (tor the friendship of time Sheriff). Per-
jury in Jurors of the City of London is greatly
complained of. Stow informs us, that in the year
1468 many Jurors of that City were punished,
and papers fixed on their heads, declaring their
offence of being corrupted by the parties to
the suit. He complains of that corruption
as flagrant in the reign of Elizabeth, when
be wrote his account of London. Fuller,
in his English Worthies, mentions it as a pro
verbial saying that London Juries hang half
and save half.' Grafton, in his Chronicle, men-
tions that the Chancellor of the Bishop of Lon-
don being indicted for murder, the Bishop wrote
a letter to Cardinal Wolsey, begging his inter-
position for having the prosecution stopped,
because London Juries were so corrupted, that
they would find Abel guilty of the murder of
Cam: In that period the morals of the English
were in every particular extremely loose." Under
the same circumstances we see in every country
the same phenomena. The peasantry of Tip-
perary have not at present an interest in the
administration of the law, for the law we suspect
is their enemy. They are at present forced to
league themselves in societies of mutual assu-
rance, to prevent ejectment from their little pos-
sessions, which, to them, are indispensable to
existence. It is vain to think of communicating
to men a love of justice, as long as necessity
compels them to look for protection to the mid-
night torch and the rifle. But every thing must
have a beginning. When the law can give pro-
tection, the law will become gradually reverenced.
So long as the poor are at the discretion of their
landlords, they will be against the law, which is
on the side of the landlords. In the evidence
before the Select Committee on the Irish Mis-
cellaneous Estimates, Mr. Barrington, Solicitor
for the Munster Circuit, on being asked " Can
you form any opinion satisfactory to yourself as
to the cause of that great extent of ermine in the
county of Limerick in so short a time ?" an-