The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-27 00:00:00

ANOTHER HORRID MiftbEß:

two Or three o'clork, a
on the • body of a
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committedabout
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poor Labouring man, in.a field, between Locas.street
and the Foundling-hospital. . It is supposed the.de.
ceased had been attacked, by some villains, 'Rod
making resistance, they resolved -th murder him ;
which horrid 'deed being perpetrated) they 'threw the
body into a gravel-pit near theirlace.where,the 'mar,
der was committed. • The body vas disoovere.laheui
four o'clock, by. twolittirtirst‘ ' 11(4. 'head 'of the de.
ceased was much teeritM, riti marks were founil on
parts of it, supposed tirhe dime by an iron crow, or
r some' such instrument. • The "precise spot oit whit*
this barbarous act was committed was literally co.
vered with the brains of the unfortunate man. Thu
• body when. found was still warm, but life. was quite
eatinct. The two ss ho first discrivered it) collected
I together the fragments of the scull, which, with the
!body; they conveyed to an adjoining puhtirAouse.--
Three halfpence was all the money found in the
pockets of the deceased. The body was soots owned.
• Thefriends of the • deceased state, that he was as
Irishman, and intended shortly to proceed to his own
country; and in order to defray the expenses of his
journey, he had been for some time making little
savings from his weekly wages. •It Was this small
booty, it is supposed, which attracted the villains,
and occasioned his death. The police officers are
engaged in the apprehension of suspicions charac.
tees.

Lines oa a Monument at Afolliton Combe to the
memory or Mrs. Sturm of *Sydenliam, and her
daughters, who were unfortunately drowned at
Chepstow, on Sunday*' September 9.0, Mit, writ.
ten by Mr. CILMPBELL,..AstiIor of the Pleasures of
Hope.

In deep submission to the hill abase,
Yet with no common cause for, human tears,
This stone, for the lost partner of his love, '
And for his children i•.stawiourner rears.
One fatal moment, me o'erwhelmitig doom,
Tore threefold from his heart the lies of earth,
Ilia MARY, I'IARO'RET, in their early bloom,
And her w ho gave them life, and taught them wank,
Farewell ! ye broken pillars of my fate,
My life's companion, and my two first-born;
Yet, while this silent stone I ecru:eery-ft ' •
To conjugal, paternal, love forlorn; -
Oh ! may each passer by the lesson learn,
Which tau alone the bteedi or heart sustain -
(1N here Friendship weeps at Virtue's funeral urn),
That, to the pure in heart, " to die is gain."
• It is remarkable that they had attended the Church on that
day, and beard a Sermon from Phil. ch. 1, vet. 21, latter part.

•We understand, that Lieutenants James I'ettet,
late Commander of the Sprightly cutter, whose me-
lancholy fate was mentioned in our paper of yester-
day, was severely wounded in the body,:by a muskvt.
ball, when serving as First Lieutenant of the Cr.!
berus, about three years since • and as he never cam.
pletely recovered from the effects of that ‘4.ou:.d,
I which injured the spine, and consequently
his bead, his unfortunate end .may be attrienited to a
momentary detirium arising from that cause, and net
Ito any dread of censure from the Admiralty, which,
we undesrstand, was not at all likely to happen.
A few days ago as a poor woman of Barton-Upon..
Ilumber, named Metcalf, eighty-one years of age,
was collecting manure from the road. near her. house,
on passing three asses, one of •them viciously seized
and held her by the arm for a considerable time. A
gardener who was near, hearing her cries, rescued
her from her perilous situation, and surgical assist-
, ance was immediately procured, bat on examining
her arm, it was found broken in three p'ecei, and
otherwise *so dreadfully lacerated as not to .admit of
the bones being replaced.- She expired on Friday,
after having suffered excruciating pain. .
Mr. John Lace, Acting Master • of the Sabrina,
was, on Saturday, committed at Portsmouth, for
forging and uttering a Navy Pay Bill, of Licuiestant
Hodge, of that ship, which he' paid to Mrs. Mary
Anne Clarke, of Southampton-row, Portsea, whet*
he had been acquainted with a girl of the town.
ISulcinE.—A man of respectabke apvea ance called
a coach off the stand in Pickett-street, Temple-bar,
' on Friday, and desired to be driven to OxfOrd-streit.
On the coachman arriving in the•street, 'he eequited.
Ito what part he should. drive, but received no an-
swer, and on opening. the door the
.perscet h,a4 cut
his throat with a penknife su as to sevyr, the \tied-
pipe, and he was quite dead. He was: traced by
r some docunients found upon him to he a' Mi.S.
,respectable young man from the neighbourheiid of
*Gloucester. lie had been only a forthigltt tn. Lon..
don, end was about to comateuce-. business
chemist:
• A publican of Sutton.uport.trent. was la* .Ae.
tected mixiug tobacco with bops toted-in 'brewing and
fined in the mitigated penalty of 501. " •°'
A bed of coal has recently been discovered at
Kirby Moor; in -Littcolnshire. Mr.`,Thomson, •of
Billinghay, owns a small piece of bad there, and
being a York.shireman, and acquainted with the usual
indications of coal in his native country, he was to.
duced by appearances to have his land bored,' and at
the depth of 18 yards blind coal, into which 'he
bored four 'tor five feet, and fOundithetter agile went
deeper. Men are now emplOyetl in sinking ;.
it is hoped, the sanguine expectations of that nei,4l,
bourhood will not be disappointed. Kirby Moor
is between Horncastle and 'l'attershall, and about a
mile from the River Witham.

There was lately growing in a garden, at Stbur.
bridge, a single potatoe.plant, the branches or-fibret
from the root of which amounted to LOW:. •

In a•house in Hexham there are now lising fire
inhabitants, whnsP joint ages make 442 years---i The
of 100, one of 92, two of 85, and one of So.
The oldest (a female), is a great reader, and re*Js
without spectacles.

DIED.
• On the 39t1 inst.. in the nduaneed age et 90, James 'Filrite.
EN, of Bampstead , ist idd Imes.
On the 96th instant, Richard Stert, F. of New Birlingtou.
Street, afted 76. •
On the 19th tor. at Phillack Cornwall, is the 76th year °this
age, the Rey. W. Hockin, 46 years Rector of Philliteh and
tissithinn.
On the 2.11/41 Inst. at Kennington, him. Cottle, wife of Va. Ps
Cottle, of Broad-street, Cheap:6de. • -

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