Star.
London, England, 1827-08-03 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Amman, Amin I.—The beet proof tint we can give of 2
general improvement in our plantations, is, that the Worcester dory
is advanced to Xll,OOO. The few saes which were made
day, were at a small reduction. •
CANITERMIRT, .AUGOST 1.-.ollr accounts fret an pats
county, state that a great improvement has takes place in e
The vermin have nearly disappetrui„ and the burr is
well in many grounds in this ►icinity. Doty knew hid r
and we believe L ruing.

The son of a Noble Lord fell into the Thames
ttlbw.k, a law days age, and narrowly escaped a watery
wpm which he was rtacto.ll Ity a passer-by, wbo was, P
ocrolly rov.rdcd for his trouble with two sovereigns.

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DREADFUL AFFAIR AT HADLEY.

A DAUGHTER MURDERS HER MOTHER. AND
AFTERWARDS DESTROYS HERSELF._

A most tra:ical affair has taken place at Hadley,
near Barnet. N loch has thrown that and the adjoining
villages into the greatest consternation, It appears that
an elderly Lady and her daughter had, for some years
re'ided is the village of Hadley; and although
;heir strange and eccentric conduct had, in some degree,
cited the attention of the Parish, and furnished food
for the idle gossips, there was that liberality and good
feeling about the two wretched individuals which ren-
dered them objects of esteem and veneration. Mrs.
Diary Spencer, the eldest of the two females in clues.'
tins, was a widow, upwards of 70 years of age, her truss
band formeriy kept those stables in Oxford-streets which
we now occupied by Mr. Wimbush. Since the death
of her husband she has resided with her daughter, who
between 40 and 50 years of age, on Hadley Green.
The house in which they resided was, as well as the one
idjoining, toeir own fieehold, most desirably situated,
elegantly 'tarnished, and surrounded by some beautiful
gardens and meadow land. No other person resided
with them in the house except two female servants.
Mrs. Spencer and her daughter were in the habit of
,ieepirg in one room, and their beds were placed close
to each other. On Tuesday night they went to bed at
their usual hour. and in the morning the.servants were
solarised that Miss Spencer did not knock at the wains-
out, As she was in the habit of doing, to warn them it
was tree to rise. How. wet, as Miss Spencer and her
anther had often passed a very restless nights and as
desetvants thought they had enjoyed but little sleep
on the night previous, they did not call them. At
length, when iiine.'o'cleack came, the servants became
alarmed ; they kola, lied at the bed-room door —no one
answered.—they .pened it, and saw, not Mrs. and Mi-s
fipencer, but they saw the bed of the old Lady's bloody,
and being alarmed, they run away. Assistance w, s
called; and upon the /Mose being searched, a horrible
scene was discovered. We stated above. that the tw
unfortunate females slept in one room; adjoining that
is a dressing-room, and in that apartment the dreadful
affair had taken place. On die floor, close to the win-
don, lay Miss Spencer, the unhappy cause of this scene;
she was attired in her chemise. only. She was laying
upon her right side, her throat cut in a most horrid
manner, her right arm placed under that side of her
head, and ler limbs partly doubled up. At her feet
was the body of her mother, lying upon the same side,
-a 'most in the same position, bit her throat eshibited a
more ghastly wound than 'that in the throat of her
daughter. The floor was completely covered with
blood, and in the midst of
.the gore lay the instrument,
a razor, with which the deed appeared to have been
.committed. At night, before tl,ey retired to rest, they
were seen in the parlour converting cheerfully together;
there was not the sligt-test appearance of ill-wilt or re.
•senment on the part of either, but in the morning they
were discoveied murdered and mangled in the manner
-above stated. Fr,w) the evidence, not a doubt can exist
that the mother had fallen by the hand of her daughter,
lot then there is a mystery thrown aroensl the transac-
tion. What could induce the daughter to commit so
fool and uon..tural an act? It would seem,. from the
ippeareirce of the bed of the old Lady, thait an attempt
hid been made upon tier life while she lay there. From
the bed r. om, the poor old woman must have gone into
the anti or dre.sing-roont, and there, as if to strew that
the pas desirous at eacapinl from the violent death that
awaited her, it appeared she had staggered to the door,
smearing her lacerated hands aginst the side of the wall,
but becoming at last feint from the loss of blood, she
tell at the feet of her daughter and exit ed.—Yesterday
ahem, on, at five o'clock, an Inquest was held on the
bodies at iii house of the deceased.

The first witness called was Mr. Walter Morrison. whn said. I
seskiela Parnet and am a surgeon; I was acquainted with the de.
mod Ladies, and bad attenZed them peofeselooaliy, but net fur the
he fee years; on Tux day morning I was called upon by • Colonel
prosy to attend at their house, and I found them le the saute pa-
win whirh they now lay (and above described); the wound in
&throat of the mother appeared to have been cat in a deeper and
on dreadful manner than if she bad indicted it herself; I she oh-
'eyed a wound in one d her angers; in conjunction with another
*pen I ezarnised the bodice again yesterday coming; I found a
nue lying opposite to them, which was covered with gore.
Did any thing indicate to you which of their throats bad been
tat hut?

Net the appearance of the threat, and from the appearance of
4 adjoining room in which the old Ludy slept, I think, and so did
Mr. Hammond, wbo examined the bodies with roe, that the
k+nol the mother bad been cut first. It would appear as If tlse
1,14 W I had been attacked whilst In her bed, foe there was a great
yanury at blood on the pillow, and she the mark of a bloody hand.
*At appearances also indicated, that she had been attacked by the
tattoo a second time, and on that spot there was a great quantity
otbk,u4.

pki you make soy other obeenradon 7—There was soak* Meal
*Math side of the wall, urea the doer, and the side of the deers
of it appeared as if the mother hail attempted to escape.
Hew was the inside of the mother's band?—lt appeared uif
she had resisted when her daughter attacked her, and in endeavour_
WI to escape from the violence of the daughter, her band got cut.
Thee was not sufficient blood on the hod of the eider Lady go
*nether death.
Was it possible that the daughter had carried her mother from
het bid to the room which we have seen 7—l think oat ; foe if the
Mot had been cut in the bed in the manner it now is, then
'mid have been a great deal of blood on the floor, which would
lot lowed from the wound.
130 you think the throat was cut in the bed?—Yes, I think the
Amu was cut in the bed,but the deed was finished in the anti-ream.
A Juror bete observed, that since the Jury bad examined the
ftlit had been wa.hed, and two wounds had been discovered in
111:1i lady's throat.
h, *bitty., Sir, that the old Lady lies at the feet of the daugh-
"ti who is close to the window. How do you account foi her
`nit in that position 1-4 think that when the daughter saw her
Iftft fall, she cut her own throat, and fell in the poeltlu you
Lye *stutter.
Mit bottle of tiattsborn which was in the mom was produced,
sad the Comer and NI.-diesl.Gentkosen at once came to the con-
clusion that the bloody marks around it were those of the daughter's
Lad' 14u bud *POW it to her face, after she bad destroyed her
weber.
lir. Merriam again viewed the body, and odd it was clear that
the threat had been twice cue. At the second attach the left carotid
1.'17 *as divided, and bad discharged a vast quantity of blood.
Idl rerun am persuaded that that artery was not cut whilst the
y wai, in bet
XT. William Hammond, another Medical Gentleman, re.
4,Wbestsuo, said—l visited the bodies of the deceased
_ ise Tuesday evening; I found them in the anti-room, lying
ocyv 74 fir, weltering iu their blood. TM throat of Mrs. Spencer,
!vas very much cut—the windpipe was divided. The Baugh..,
• '"1 Mt throat cut neatly as deep, but nix so wide. In the
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Mrs. Spencer's bed bloody; I found Miss
bad free from blood, and the bed clothes turned
returning into the anti.roorna I found some blood
,Meer
dot, of the wall near the door, and one spec of blood on the
w Lift the handle ; I have just been Metairie to look as the bodies.
gene;-Iftilliksed ihe threat. n ere particularly; I think that Alts
e threat was cut more than once; I find the left caresit,
o and I believe that to be the more immediate cause
""*hi bliss Speocer's throat is cut deeply ; but the carotio
1,41a1t cat 1.141 either side ; in Miss Spencer's case the bone
pad th* tftaue is attached is cot through and upwards, cutis.
1...2184mnd think she would have fitted longer than her inotbe •
Lrli Ire no main vessels cut through, but only branches ; MI
--zie left band n cut very deeply in one finger..
" ftftratand you have attend these Ladies profes,ionally
hla Va* film
e any account of the state of the mud of Mis
'`°"." -The mind of the young Lady has always been silw