The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-04 00:00:00

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A fill Popeftotilie Inquest which was keld yes.
-locr aid ...ititly of the lamented-lir Skpit?it.
wills foind in another page of This Paper.
its!, wiping to enter into the melancholy par.
..tcors, entil we could give the detail entire -with
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the 'resell.. The verdict was such as every hums
end cousiderati mind, capable of appreciating
'dreadful sitaiation of the unfortunate person, an..
ticipate4; thodgh some most creel and viscounty in.
,eineatious were Made is the Times of yesterday,tend.:l
!rig to impute a want of :religioos consolation. in. the
unhappy sufferer, as if realer' was or could be 4 lA,
exercised le tbeheight of so phrensied a deprivation.
The ioaesatiffy of such observations upon:so 'Alicia..
in en steliistos4 end on one so mild and distinguish.'
~for aid aid virtue, as the lite Sii.Sasseee,t
Itoltrit.e, • Otheiltes no comment 'lrons us to pekoe
lent it: deftwality and its objict. Scarcely. less Is.
.getting was it in the scribesbitho Courier, beforai
Melancholy facts were stated in the Inquisition,, to
ter garbled accounts • before the Publiic, aid
assume •merit for declining what they thonghtisi,
'Sir SAMUEL ROMILLy'S consistency. They who hiss
so openly acted the apostate, end left the cane of
their first friends for filthy lucre, to support Psioci.
.pies the very referee of whet the•decessed Patriot ea.
*dainty' and exemplified through the whole coarse
•wf his life, are to leach the world how to estlitt'e
the merits of Sir SAMUIL B.OMILLY't CoßristPac7l47-11
torn whose unveiled mated, 'end Consistent' ad.
bowie* to the caste •of liberty, truth, and justice,
,ought to pit theineirof.the courier to shame:. Their
110.100 such.virtue Is 'their own condemnation 11-4
It is useless to dwell upon the exeerleot modifier of
this Inestrmable man, as. groomlS. for sirprise at his
melancholy fate. Their efficacy had ceased under the
operatime of cruel di4ase. Sir Ilostmor,
• when hi committed the act, was in a state ef mental
delirium. Ile was. suffering under a brain fever,
peodoced by excessive grief and anxiety.: 'Be *as.
unconscious of crime at the time, and Con and thol
world 'will, we treat, judge him accordingly. • ,•l
" Alas, that goodness oft' should around itself, . ,
And sweet afection prove the spring of woe l'" •
The evidence given dn 414
.Inqueit wilt be stnni
with the liveliest interest Iti.:1111 whose Mesita von.
symptate le the anguish of sbas seasibility of fttont,
' tiAteliiihirght Sit SAseuet Rilettn. to a ptmoptiosk
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grave. It appears that Lady Reattt.t.i long eurpoPorlw.. 1
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seder s complicated disease, which, by Ita.qtdc*iglifi
rainy changes, kept her anxious husband lit 4401.
need agitation. Flattered at one moment by gleams
of conralescente, sod shocked the 'nest 'by iiiitp!
tome of an ominous relapse. That tendernetes,of
tore which led Sir S. floret LLT to embrace with hive
the whole of his 'fellow.creetures; and to ellen. tim.!
self to serve them, was most fervent,•mt it ought to be,
at borne. His affection for his wife. mud family Nis
so pure and ardent, that with feelings'-so suseeptible
as his, It is cot to be wondered at that he should be
kept in an agony of suspense by' the alternate here
and fears which her malady excited for elitkieillett:
be more unjust than the observed* of we Might say the
insinuation, in the Courier of last niglii—that as Lady
Roast Y " bad been lingering under the pressure of
a hopeless disease for nearly twelve months, it seems
difficult to admit her death as the exclusive cause
(of his), because there was room for that patient,
,41rongh severe self-discipline which • Iran di mind of
• man against foreseen calamities." Se far wiethe
ease from. beieg hopeless- is 141.-eyesi
friend Umo r. DurPe. ststedi !sit-10114101stia.
mins' mete of change, 40f; iervigon Olpirk
mho indolgence of Poi*, and sagain thr.own bact,.firsat.
coufidence.to despair, till within thetireeldeCtrOks
of her existence. The very day *flee Sir sawn% isd
written to his friend Mr. Domoirtlite
.lettei hich
was reid. before the Coroner, he itlet him a note to
reiiiie bins frees the anxiety which the first would oc.
'cession' Nothing can be more air than that ip to
the date of this letter he entertaitail hipes of het re;
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It was not, therefore, till the ,month of October
that the symptoms of Lady RODULLT'S case beam*
so•decided as to reduce him to uniniited despair of
her recovery—and then the effect upon his heart was
I so poignant, that hii frame was agitated to a burning
fever, and he got no sleep bet from the eThcscy of
medicine... The whole tenor of Sir SAMUEL'S tinsel•
lied life, opon whose spotless name not even, in the
inspiring and unblushing virulence of a contested
diction, could any other cry be set op than that,
he was a Lawyer (would to God all our Lawyers
were like him)—contradicts the idea, that there could
be a premeditated motive for self-destruction. And,
indeed, the evidence before the Coroner proves that
it arose from an instantaneous psrosysni of the brain
—since all his language with his friends dwelt on the
new load of duty towards the care and education of
his children, which. the death of Lady RQMILLY had
thrown upon him. Every thing indeed proves that
nothing had transpired to give to those most dear and
most interested in his life the slightest suspicion.

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