The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-27 00:00:00

THE LATE CAPTAIN APK ENZ lE.

Saturday the remains of Captain Adam M'Kenzie of his
Majesty's ship Ocean, were interred at Stoke, with military
honours. The procession moved from his late residence
in George street at half past eleven o'clock, followed by a
long train of mourning coaches, private carriagetti. Naval
Officers, and attended by a detachment of 300 Royal
Marines.

An extraordinary eirenmstanre preceded the funeral,
which excited great interest. IVitlsin a short time after
Captain M•Kenzie's decease, a woman calling herself Mrs.
,U•Kenzie made application to the Honourable Sir A. Coch-
rane, and stated herself to be the lawful wife of Captain
Adam 31'lienzir, to whom she had been married at the
parish church of Maker, on the 27th of August, 1822, of
which msrriage she produced a regular certificate, and also
a correspondence, purporting to have passed between Capt.
Al‘liengie and herself. This statement excited great sur-
prise and many conjectures. On reference to Maker parish
register, the entry of the marriage was found, but with a
difference in the mode of signing• from what was usual
with the Captain, oho wrote his name "A. M•lienzie,"
wit in the register it stood " Adam M'Kenzie."—
I nferences were also drawn from the Captain's habits and
manners. The Rev. -- Ley having souse recollection of
this marriage, looked at the Captain's corpse, but perceived
no likeness in it of the man he had married in his name.—
The Rev. Gentleman, accompanied by some others, then
visited the woman at her house in St. Anbyn street, where
he found the shutters closed, and maser appearances of
mourning as for a near relative. On questioning the
woman a little closely, she desired that all but Mr. Ley
would leave the room. They (lid so; anal she is said to
have made confessions to him which have not transpired.,
Inquiry was next made in the I)• cic yard, where the hus-
band, who at his marriage had represented him•elf as
" Adam M`lienxie," was found in the person of (i.Consly,
a shipwright, who, upon being summoned from his work
to the Commissioners' office, betrayed considerable
agitation, and immediately went to a shed to change
his working dress : here he ascended by a ladder into a loft,
where it appears he took a large clasp knife from his pocket,
and drew it across has throat with such violence as to divide the
windpipe, but not with sufficient force to cut the carotid artery.
His groans shortly afterwards attracted the attention of some
of his brother workmen underneath, who on going a bovefound
him fainting from the loss of blood. Being removed to the sur-
geon's ofilce, his wound was examined, and dressed, but he
died on Saturday.

The object of the woman was evidently to enter upon Capt.
M'Kenzie's property, and, as his widow, to claim the pension
of 901. s year, due to the relict of an officer of his rank. The
key to this bold attempt and otherwise mysterious tale, is said
to be, that the woman had accompanied the Captain from
Scotland, and lived with him on the most intimate terms. The
marriage appears to have been planned; so that on her failing
to persuade the Captain to marry her, she might assume the
rights of the widow on his decease.

REVOLTING ROMMEL—This morning at an early hour
the neighbourhood of Tiverton Row, Stones End, Borough
was a scene of the greatest confusion, in consequence of
the dwelling house of Mrs. Ray, a lady residing at No. 8
in the Row, having been entered in the night by thieves,
who had, amongst other things. stolen the corpse of an old
gentleman named Dickerson, who had died the preceding
day( luesilay).The robbers must haveentered at the window
of the dining room where the body lay in a cotfin,thronglt
which they must have taken it into the street. The cap
and shroud were left behind. A young man named Turton,
who lodged in the house has been arrested on suspicion of
the robbery information' of which was given to Marmon
the officer of Union Hall, who is in active search fur the
Corpse.
About two years ago a respectablerarmer at Yaxham, in
this coun'y, accidentally swallowed a penny piece, which
lodged some time on his stomach, but causing him con-
siderable pain he applied to an eminent surgeon in this
city, who advised him to take very strong exercise ou
horseback, which in a short time removed the coin lower
down, and relieved him of the pain, but although it has not
yet been extricated be feels no inconvenience whatever.—
(Norwich Post.)

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