The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-29 00:00:00

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I THE LATE MIL dlilt.llllM GOLDSMID•

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-The general-philanthropy; the ready munificeeee,
• the friitully:demeanour, the mild
.and unassuming
winners.; of this Gentlemen; heve.been long knows " . '
and .eatee:necl, both by- the circle of hio piiitate.
Iriondo and by the public at Jarge; of whose no.
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(ice, the Magnitude of his money concerns, anti.
the multiplicity of his commercial engagements, et. ~
traded as large a portion as ever fell to the lot, ot
any individual unconnected with the athnieistretieb •
of the State.
There are not many men, we believe, who !mimic,'
performed more kind acts in social life, or mon 11.
beral ones in what may be esteemed his public one,
thAti Mr. ABRAHAM GOLDSMID; no one, indeed,
of any class or description, ever became. talerikly •
well known to him, without improvirq their fur.
tunes in some degree by the connection; so that
the list of those whom gratitude or the sense of
kindness.receivcd in one way or other bait 60444
or aught to have bound, to him, was alkiost end.
less.

The-City of London was thrown into the grant-
cet agitation yesterday morning by the ewes ioeviveti
[of thet melancholy mut. He had, it appears, shot
himself with a pistol through the heid, iu the.WII--
, detnes at the back of known house, at Morden, is
'Surrey, tiliou'reight o'clock in the morning. The.
An`edical.gintlemen from the neighbouring village,
were siimmonett as soon as the fact was ascertained,
but their skill was unavailing ; he executed his de.• .
845. too etftiquallf for human aid to be of any use
to itio.

The cause of this rash act it is not difficult to as-
sign :—Mr. GOLDS/AID was a joint coniractor for
the late loan of 14 millions with the House of Sir
FRANCIS BARING, and taking the largest probable
range that he had dealt amongst his friends one half
of the sum allotted to him, the lass sustained by
,the r6thitindei, at Ate rate of > 651. per thousand,
which wss the price of Thursday, was more then
arty fortune could be expected to sus.
. gves since the decline Of annium from pir,
Ur. notositri'S spirit were progressively dram), •
Wu-btu witm
.it reached five and six per cent.
Aiscortr,".. without -the probability of recover.
shot.: unfortunate gentleinan appeared' cvi.
dently restless in his disposition? and disordered in
mind;.his and, as we have reason to believe, not
that cheerfal'assis(ance cnnot,gst his my.
tried friends rchich he had experienced in happier
times' he was• unable to..bear ori 'against the prep.
Sure of his misfortunes.; and hence was driven to
terminate • a-life which till then. had never been
Chequered. by tuisfortnne. • The moment intelki.
genco Of the distressing event ;reached the City,
Whick.was about the period of the opening of the
Stuck Exehange,lke Funds suddenly felt the effects,
and Cowie fell in alew'minstes from GG= to 631.
onenions 6441. Trcira ationt.6l to 1O discount, and
then reinainter Steady at that -Prieeitie:some time. ,
We understand that Mr. Qi,igasisso ,had deter.
witred,.if possibte, to perforin all contracts at
the Stuck Eichinge, hoping still to have a compe.
tcucy left to retire with into private life from the
'wreck of his fortune. lle had already comment:4A
his.ratrenettnients by dischargion•e' all the workmen
and out-door labourers employed on his extensile
premises at Morden.
The mutability of human, affairs his been strongly
evinced during the last few weeks. Sir FRANCiI
BARING and Mr. A. GOI.OSIIIID, who were consi_
dered as the pillars of the city., are both dead with-
in that time. The effects their deaths have had un
the funds of the country will best bespeak the sup.
port they gave them ivbile t!s.eylived. •
We have since been inforMed, that Mr. GoLosstto
received some friends at his house the night preced.;
ing his deceate, and even joined in a party at cards;
but at intervals his mind, seemed totally absorbed
in the thought of.'other sebjects. Another circum.
stance which is said CO have accelerated his death is,
that he had borrowed of the East India Company
five hundred thousand pounds, -for which he gave
them ample security; but notwithstanding, they
wishing to have•the security redeemed, had' fixed net,
yesterday or Monday fur that purpose ; and, it Is
Supposed, he felt a difOculty in complying with this
engagement. The house, however, -continues to
discharge ali-dereands upon it ; and, it is believed,
hamno occasion to se.vend its payments.
rIIRTILER .PAIii*ICULARS. ' •
About •isalf.past seven .o'clock yesterday morn. •
lag; Mr.**Gotiiistin was seem. to pass over the
bridge width !midi to the Wilderness or Rookery,
to the grounds at Marden.house : shortly after, '
iheceachman, as was usual, inquired what horses
•trece to go to town, npon which he was referred to
Mi. G. being told at the time which way his mai.
itesaltad.walked. The-coachman went in search of
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itieti and was the first that found him weltering in
hht blood, with the pistol grasped in his right baud.
Lifelslias not quite extinctl.but before any aid could
be piticured •Ms. Go Luc st ID eXpirO.

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Oms.Psitets.-f-ko the eighth year of the reign
of EpsitA.Rl JI. the ,Parliament ordered,- that, in-
.consimaenee of .a. dearth, an ,ox fatted with grass
stould be soldier 14s. and nith corn fur 20s. ; the
best cow for !-121. a fat hog, of two years old, for
41;44. a fat,sheep.which was shorn for Is. 2d. and
unshorn, js,.tid. *fat goose 21. a tit capon 24.
40 a. fat Ilea
Thuriday evening as some boys ,were playing in •
Wafer lane, olackfriars, a gentleman's servant
Henn by at the 'tithe on horseback, when one of
them, who ran across the street, was knocked down ,
and trampled under the horse's feet, by which one
Of.his arms was broken. He wai taken to the !WS*
in a very dangerous state; no -blame was at.
tached to the person riding, it being qiiite dusk,
We understand that in consequence of a prooo-
- from Cooke. the Publican, and one of Ihe
Aniscreanis who were pillored in the Hay.inarket on
Thursday, there was a meeting of the Westmcoiter
Migistrates on Wednesday evening, to consider his
offer for discovering a number of his accomplices its
iheiame abominable system, but in a very different
• rookie life, provided his punishment of the Pillorr
was remitted ; but that the Magistrates, after fnil
deliberation, deemed it more for the advantage of
public murals to reject his proposition, and let the
sentence of the law take its course.

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