The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF MR. DRUIVIMOND

(From Thursday's Times.)
It now becomes our very painful duty to announce that Mr.
Edward Drummond died yesterday morning about half-past
ten o'clock.

Our readers will, no doubt, be fully prepared, from the
accounts we were compelled to give yesterday of the hopeless
state in which he was left by his medical attendants on the
previous nights, to hear the melancholy intelligence.
After the last consultation, which took place between ten
and eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, it was announced to his
friends that the deceased's dissolution was fast approaching—
that, in fact, mortification had taken place, and that all hu-
man aid would, consequently, be of no avail.
Although the unfortunate sufferer had been gradually sink-
ing the whole of the day, the great change which indicated
his speedy dissolution occurred about seven o'clock,when the
whole of his family were immediately summoned, and re-
mained in attendance till the last.

The deceased, who throughout his short but severe illness
bore his sufferings with great fortitude and resignation, re-
mained perfectly sensible till the time of his death.
The unfortunate gentleman, who, we understand, was in
his 50th year, bore a most estimable character, and was be-
loved by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance; and
it is almost impossible to describe the gloom which the me-
lancholy -event has cast over the circle in which he moved.
At a very early hour in the morning the residence of the
deceased gentleman was literally besieged by persons making
anxious inquiries respecting his state, and which continued
throughout the greater part of the day. .
Shortly before eight o'clock a messenger froni the Queen
called to snake inquiries, and returned with the intelligence
of the hopeless situation in which the 'deceased then was to
Windsor. Immediately after the unfortunate gentleman
breathed his last, another messenger was despatched to con-
vey the melancholy tidings to her Majesty. A messenger
from her Majesty the Queen Dowager also called a few
minutes after the deceased expired.

Ortly after the last consultation on Tuesday night, Mr.
Jackson, the apothecary, returned to the house, and sat up
during the night. Almost immediately after his departure,
at half-past seven o'clock, Mr. Guthrie arrived, and remained
with the deceased till his last moments. There were also
in the room with him at the time the deceased's three bro-
thers and his sister.

For some time previous to his death, Mr, nummond was
entirely free from pain.

A post nzortem examination of the body will be made at
one o'clock this day, and the coroner's inquest is appointed
to be held at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Mr. E. Drummond was nephew of the present Viscount
Strathallan, Baron Drummond, of Cromlie, and Baron
Maderty, in the peerage of Scotland.
This family have been remarkable for their steady attach-
ment to the Stuart family, and William Drummond, Esq.,
fourth viscount, personally espoused the fortunes of the
Chevalier i❑ 1715. He was slain at the battle of Culloden,
and his name included in the Bill of Attainder passed in 1746,
with that of his eldest son, described as James Drummond,
eldest son of William Viscount Strathallan. His lordship
had two other sons, one of whom, Robert, was the original
founder of the bank at Charing-cross. Ile died 1804, leaving
four sons and one daughter. The second son, Charles, (a
partner in the bank,) married in 1784 Frances Dorothy,
second daughter of the Rev. Edward Lockwood, of Portman-
square, and by her left at his decease, in 1823, four sons and
two daughters,—viz., Charles, banker, at Charing-cross,
born 1790 ; Edward, (the unfortunate deceased,) born March
30, 1792 ; Berkeley (Lieutenant-Colonel Scotch Fusilier
Guards,) born May 27, 1796 ; Arthur, (in holy orders, rector
of Charlton, Bent,) August 20, 1797 ; Charlotte Matilda and
Eliza Maria,

The Times of yesterday contains the following beautiful
allusion to Mr. Drummond's usefulness:--

" His career, thus,;ewat;;;lTza lamentably closed,
had not been a useless or unlionoured one. Haying entered

into the Service of the State as a clerk of the Mast *. at an
early age, his assiduity, fidelity, and good humour introduced
him to the more immediate patronage of the minister of the
day. As private secretary to the present Earl of Ripon when
Chancellor of the Exchequer, he displayed Those qualifica-
tions which recommended him succes ively to the of
Mr. Canning. the Duke of Wellington, and Sir It. Peel.
Under these statesmen it was his lot to discharge, for nearly
twenty years, duties which are only inferior to those of a
Cabinet Minister, because they are less conspicuous, but the
faithful discharge of which can alone alleviate the anxieties

and mitigate the asperities of official station. As there is no
connexion so close as that which binds the English states-
man to his secretary—a connexion unknown and unappre-
ciated in foreign Courts—so, perhaps, there is no grief so
profound as that which an English statesman feels for the
loss of him in whose person the qualities of friend and par-
tisan have been harmoniously blended—who has been the
associate of his public counsels, the confidant of his public
cares, and the cheerful companion of his private life.
" Happen, therefore, when it might, the death of Mr.
Drummond could not but be widely lamented. The man
whose qualifications for public duties were prized by Can-
ning and Wellington, whilst the charm of his personal in-
tercourse was no less valued in private circles, could not
have passed away for ever, without the deep and earnest
regret of those to whom he was known, either as an inti-
mate friend or as a public servant. But how bitter is
the sting added to the poignancy of ordinary sorrow by a
death so sudden and so awful!

" We leave, however, the numerous friends and kinsmen
of the departed to indulge a sacred but not solitary grief.
Our duty is not less sacred, though less soothing. It is
ours to bid the people of England remember the fearful
stigma which this horrid murder has branded on the En-
glish name. The attempt, be it remembered, is not a
single one, although its success has been, thank God !
without a precedent for many years. There is something
overwhelmingly fearful in contemplating the degeneracy of
national character. One shrinks back from tracing the
gradual erasure of ancient and traditionary virtues, be-
cause it is the most sure and fatal omen of national calm
Seculum, ignavia cedibusgue impurum, in fiedissimam
cedit servituthn. We are yet, as a people, novices in co-
pying the melodramatic massacres of Young France, and
the Lynch-lawlessness of Republican America. There is
still enough of shame and courage left—at least, we hope
so—to arrest this mania of foreign growth, before it be-
comes too fierce and powerful to cope withal. Heaven
grant that the masculine courage and honest sense of our
countrymen may not be slack to redeem the tarnished re-
putation of our common land, laws, and faith !
" For the wretched criminal we have little to say. His
fate rests with the justice of his country. It would ill be-
come us to wrest one prop or stay from beneath a man whose
doom is so uncertain as his. We will not anticipate his de-
fence or his evidence. The laws of England are severe, but,
even in their severity, merciful. They will presume no guilt
against him, but will wait for proof. To them we commend
him.

" This, however, we venture to say—if he be innocent (that
is, morally innocent, by reason of insanity, which can be de-
monstrated to be congenital, inherent, or of irresistible force),
he will be at once acquitted. But if this cannot be shown
on good and probable testimony, we do earnestly trust that
no undue exertion will be made by the soft-hearted to twist
and torture unimportant incidents into symptoms of insa-
nity—that no over-refined humanity will endeavour to argue
back the crime itself into a proof of madness, and so as to
save the criwnal by his own wrong—that no maudlin sensi-
tiveness will lift up its plaintive voice to rescue the convicted
felon from a doom which a justice higher than man's has pro-
nounced against him by whom man's blood has been shed.
Such conduct would be unworthy of a great, of a brave, of a
religious, of a Christian people. The greatest mercy has,
ere now, been the greatest cruelty. Those laws are the most
merciful which deter men from the most atrocious crimes."

PARTICULARS OF M'NAUGHTON DURING Ills

RESIDENCE AT GLASGOW,

(From the Glasgow Constitutional.)
We regret to have to state that the assassin is a Scotsman,
and a native of Glasgow. lie is the son of a most respect.
able tradesman in this city, whose name he bears—Danie
M`Naughton—and was brought up to the trade of a wood.
turner. His conduct and habits, which were always eccen-
tric, became so disagreeable to his father, that nearly ten
years ago such misunderstandings occurred as led to a cessa-
tion of the correspondence between the parties. After
working for some time as a journeyman, Daniel commenced
business on his own account in Turner's-court, and latterly
had his workshop in Stockwell-street. From the first he was
very abstracted, and parsimonious to a proverb. To save
money he bought and cooked his own victuals, lodged in his
own workshop, and, excepting on the article of clothing, in
regard to which he was a little vain, his purse strings were
seldom unloosed. He, consequently, saved a considerable
sum of money, at one time his bank account reaching to
about £l,OOO. Having devoted himself greatly to reading,
he became somewhat enthusiastic and romantic in his ideas;
instead of attending to his business, he wandered about the
most remote and unfrequented of our country roads, invari-
ably carrying with him a book, political or religious, although
he never showed himself a partizan in either. His opinions
in politics were of the most violent and Radical description.
About the beginning of Jan., 1841, his "fitful" temperament
as one of his most intimate acquaintances terms it, could not
submit to the drudgery and confinement of a workshop, and
he disposed of the materials and the goodwill of the business
to a young man who had been an apprentice with him for
three years. The proceeds of this transaction he devoted to
the replenishment of his wardrobe, and, after drawing his
funds from the bank, he left Glasgow en route to France,with
nearly one thousand sovereigns in gold on his person. He
did go to the Continent, where he remained for some time ;
but, according to his own account, he had never been more
than fifty miles from the coast. He subsequently resided in
London, and his procedure there is graphically described in
another column. While in Glasgow he lodged with a Mrs.
Pattison, in Clyde-street, Anderston, very near the spot at
which Smith, the cotton-spinner, was shot, and some of his
letters to that lady, and others, indicate, at least, an aberra-
tion of intellect. He came to Scotland, and to his old lodg-
ings, about the time of the Queen's visit, and called upon a
few of his former acquaintances, all of whom observed that
his eccentricities had been increased rather than diminished
by his travelling. He again left Glasgow, and went to Lon-
don, some three or four months ago, where he seems to have
been in some degree subject to hypochondriasis, and on such
occasions he would confine himself to bed for days— Be was
decidedly temperate, and inculcated temperance on his
friends ; but, on the occurrence of these " fits," he availed
himself largely of the eau de vie medicinally. He was ex-
tremely fond of argument, and did not hesitate as to the side
he espoused, provided he had an opponent. So far as we
can learn, the pistols found on him in London were a pair
which he had in his possession in Glasgow, and with which
he was in the habit of " fowling." In his lodgings here a
few scraps of manuscript have been recovered, chiefly notes
of medical lectures, which, it seems, he had attended. One
paper, however, indicates that his mind had been unsettled a
considerable time ago. In reply to some communication of
M`Naughton, Mr. Johnston, M.P., for Kilmarnock, writes,
under date of nth May, 1812 :—" I received your letter of
the 3d May. I am very sorry I can do nothing for you. I
am afraid that you are labouring under a delusion of mind.
and that there is no reason for you entertaining such fears."
Once, when urged by Mrs. Paulson to go out and exert him-
self to get a situation of some kind or other, he said he had
done every thing for that purpose, but that he was persecuted
and tormented by a set of devils. On being farther ques-
tioned on the subject, he added, that if they (the devils) did
not give up tormenting him, he would blow their brains out.
He left Mrs. P.'s for the last time, it seems, about four
months ago, without saying where be was going, or taking
even a change of linen with him. He carried
along with him,
however, the pistols and all his money. At one time
M`Naughton spent about three years with a company of
strolling players. This was about fourteen or fifteen years
since. He is,we understand, about thirty-three years of age.
We may mention that an official gentleman arrived in
Glasgow from London on Sunday, for the purpose of re-
ceiving information regarding M`Naughten. This was prin-
cipally procured at the house of the assassin's father, who is
a very respectable man. Amongst other matters, the father
recollected that his son had-told him, about the beginning of
last summer, that he was going to call on Sir James Camp-
bell, the lord provost. On application to his lordship, we
learn that about the end of May, or beginning of June,
M`Naughten did call at his residence in Bath-street. There
he had some conversation in the hall with M'Naughten, who
is described by the lord provost as a jolly-looking man, and
as speaking very coolly, although evidently labouring under
some hallucination of mind. He told the provost with great
earnestness that he had been incessantly watched and dogged
by certain parties who had an at him. He said they
had forced him from his home by their spiteful machinations,
and the very night before they had obliged him to fly to the
gelds in the suburbs for refuge. Sir James Campbell asked
the name of the complainer, which he gave, as also the name
of his father, and afterwards reasoned with him as to the
folly of his notions. Sir James, likewise inquired, pretty
broadly, whether he had ever been treated as if it had been
suspected there was anything wrong with his (AV Naughten's)
intellects, and being replied to in the negative, seriously ad-
vised him to consult his relations or some medical man as to
the state of his health. At this visit be talked neither of
religion nor politics ; but just shook his head, and said that
"be could not get rid of them at all." Immediately after
this, the lord provost sent for his father to converse with
him on the subject; but it would appear now, that although
the man called he did not find his lordship within, and the
matter was forgotten, until the recollection of the circum-
stance was brought to mind by the arrival of the messenger,
who waited upon his lordship on Monday, along with
M`Naughten's father, and learned the above particulars.
The father of the assassin says that he could not do with his
son at all in his place of business, for although he was well
behaved, so far as sobriety and industry were concerned, he
was frequently reading books, and keeping others off their
work. lie is described as being most anxious to make
money, and frequently wrought night and day for that pur-
pose. He was a violent radical, and spoke furiously against
the conservatives of this city (Glasgow), frequently declaring
that they and Mr. Larnond, their agent, were constantly
against him. In November last, M'Naughten wrote to his
father from London, to draw £lO out of the Glasgow and
Ship Bank. It was only on going thither that the father
learned his son had so much money, and to save trouble he
sent him £2O, as he bad said in the letter he liked London
much better than Glasgow. We have made every endeavour
to procure the letter of M'Naughteu to Mr. Alexander
Johnston, to which a reply is inserted above, but without
effect—indeed, it is very probable it may have been destroyed
by Mr. J. at the time, as a piece of absurdity. So far as we
can judge, the assassin, IVl`Naughten, seems to have been a
tolerably sane person, except upon the subject of toryisen.

ME PRISONER M'lsTAticirrort.—On Monday several medical men of eminence connected with the various lunatic
asylums of the metropolis. amongst whom were Drs. Monro
and Sutherland, visited the prisoner M'Naughton at Tothill-
fields, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he suffered
from aberration of mind. Although the prisoner made such
an !extraordinary statement as he did on Saturday last at
Bow-street, which at the time was considered indicative of
an unsound state of mind, he has not followed up that line
of conduct; on the contrary, he has maintained a sullen de-
meanour, and the replies to what questions have been put to
him were very sensible. The result of the interview of these
gentlemen was in each case the same—namely, conviction on
their minds that M'Naughton was perfectly
sane, and that
the statement made by him before Mr. Hall at I3ow-street
was a premeditated one. Mr. Lavies, the surgeon to the prison
had a second interview with M'Naughton on Monday, and he
is perfectly convinced of the total absence of mental derange-
ment. It is very evident that the prisoner views with the
greatest indifference the atrocious attempt which he made on
Mr. Drummond's life, for what meals he partakes of, only
his breakfast and dinner, he eats with a keen appetite.
These meals are furnished at his own expense, an application
being made to Mr. Hall for a portion of the money found
on him to be allotted for that purpose. When these are
taken in, as well as on all other occasions, the prisoner in-
variably is found to be sitting before the fire. Although
several books are placed in the cell for his accommodation,
he has not yet been found looking at one, not- has he asked
for pen, ink, or paper. To noire of the turnkeys has he
uttered a word further until, when his dinner was conveyed
to him on Monday wliich consisted of a rump-steak), he
observed " that it was very hard to be prevented the use of
a knife and fork." On being informed that it was one of
the prison regulations, he maintained his usual silence. Lieu-
tenant Tracey, the Governor of the prison, whose opinion is
valuable from the great practice that he has had, decidedly
states that M'Naughten is not insane.--Standard.

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