Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-07-23

Oxford and his attempted Assassination
OF the Queen---The Views Of Parties upon
II.
The following interesting letter came by the Bril-
tanna, from one Of our regular correspondents.
BY means (where, as usual, nobody, we sup
pose was to bame) it did not reach US till yester-
day Ithowever contains much that is interesting;
and tie subjects named, though not exactly new to
us, appear in a new dress, and new light is thrown
on them
Correspondence of the Herald]
MAIL OFFICE, LIVERPOOL July 3, 1910.
| Dear Sir,-The present will reach you by the
| Britannia steamsh hip. Courvoisier the Swiss valet
| TO Lord William Russell, you will see by the pa
pers has been tried for the murder of that aged
bleman his master, has been convicted, condemned,
and has made two or three confessions; we cannot
however. decide in our own minds which is most to
be dc,ended on for the truth probably the first is
the most likely to be correct,n which he stated that
he was in the act of robbing the house, when the
poor old lord was obliged to get up through illness,
and caught him, rated him soundly for his miscon-
| Duct and threatened to discharge him from his
vice. acquaint his friends with the reason, and give
him in charge to the police the next morning; and
that in order avoid this oisgrace,he cut his throat
with the carving knife, after he had retired again
to rest The subsequent confessions state that the
murder was more deliberately perpetrated, and was
induced by the criminal having witnessed the dra-
matte Of the notorious house breaker
of old, Jack Sheppard
Murder, though it hath no tongue,
Doth speak with organs most miraculous"
So il has proved in the present instance 1t is be-
lieved that the ruff would have escaped the pun
ishment due to his murderous crime-at least for
season, but for providential interference. His
trial had occupied two days, and far from
elusive of his guilt. The against him was
weakened by the ingenuity of counsel every step
that it procecdeJ it likely to absorb he atten
ton of the court another day, when it expected
the prisoner would be acquitted. But just in the
nick of time, Mrs Prolaire, the wife of foreign
hotel keeper, happened to take up French newspa-
per in which the murder was discussed, and which
suggested that CourvOisier being foreigner, had
most probably made away with some portion Of his
masters property previous to perpetrating the
greater crime and left il at some of the foreign
houses of public resort in London, which it ad-
ysable should be searched. Mrs. Prolaire then re-
collected that right or two before the murder a
pare el had been left at the house by known
her only by the name JEAN she sent for attorney;
| the parcel was opened, and in it discovered a
portion of the deceased noblemans plate. She ap.
| peared against Courvoiser and identified him, aud
| il was chiefly on her evidence that he found
! guilty His counsel, Mr.. Charles Phillips, made
most eloquent speech in his behalf, having at the
| same time the criminals confession Of guilt in his
| pocket Courvoisier is to be hanged on Monday
| next the 9th ofJuly.
Gould, the supposed murderer of Mr.. Temple
| man. at Islington, but who had been tried and ac-
quilted that charge has been found guilty Of bur-
giary in the house Of the victim, committed at the
same time that he was deprived Of life, and
| fenced to trans portation. Under the old law, be-
fore the huma nitv mongers had every thing their
own way, this ru'fan would also have been hanged
After his first trial, he accused another person Of
the murder in order get the reward Of four hun
bred sovereigns offered by the government, and told
much withouta guarantee for his personal safety,
that he secured his own conviction for the minor
offence.
| A very extraordinary case of criminal nyersa-
ton occupied the Court Of Exchequer, on Saturday
last. young named Thorne, the of gem
tleman of large fortune residing in Shrops hire was
at school at Ealing, where he fell in love with a
hand some girl, named awford, the daughter Of the
post stress there and the attach ment being reci
| procal they married by banns, but unknown
to their parents. This in lc56, when both par
| ties were about seventeen years old The young
iady was perfectly virtuous, but not Of high
tion enough TO please the iather who sent his son
on the continent 10 finish his education; then OBJ
tanned him a cornetoy in regiment in India, and
moved him thither, without letting him his wife
previous To his embarcation. The father then pro-
Re ssed to have for the lady's
chastity, set some spies upon her actions, aud OBJ
tanned evidence sufficient TO support this action,
brought in his own his sons nearest friend,
but without his knowledge, and gaineda verdict for
one shilling damages. This, however, was all he
souxht-bis object being TO procure divorce, and
that being unattainable from the House of Lords,
cept the oUenCe OF aouteIN, mas oeen proved I'm a
Court Of Common Law. Ii is more than probable
tina, the seducer had been employed by the father
ifthe witnesses were correc, to the identity of
the lady.
| Pretty little Shirref, who succeeded well in
yonr country, is spending the dollars with which
YOU rewarded her talent, at Bootle, within a few
miles Of Liverpool,
| ain pleasant cot, and tragieal spot,
With distant view Of the changing sea-"
She will not &C ept engage ment under the shabby
arrangement of Lewis and Clarke, at our theatre
Royal, until she has appeared in London. This she
considers a tribute Of respect and gratitude due
from her to her patrons ia America. Mr. and Mrs.
Wood, we hear, are positively about To visit the
United States. None can equal them in the English
opera Mrs. Woods exit in the last scene Of the
second act Of somnambula is the most exquisite and
thrilling specimen Of vocal and histrionic genius
ever witnessed.
Power, the welsh Irish actor is here, splitting
| peoples sides with his performances in ellis Last
Legs" "The Galway Attorney, &c" A Mr.. Gil.
bert. Miss BALM, Master and Miss Marshall, and
Miss Taylor, at the time delichting the ad
mirers of the ballet by exhibiting their legs in the
| Syluhide sc. Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley, and Paul Bed
| ford and Yates. from the Adelphi, have been here
during the last three weeks prior to Powers open
iny and drew crowded houses to "Jack sheppard"
| the 'Dev vii in London" &c. The chaunt mix nv
Dolly" was sung three times a night, with uproar-
ious applause. The acting in Jack Sheppard
was not better than that at the Liverpool theatre
the regular conn any last winter We seldom go to
the Theatre Royal, IL is called, generally the
exhibitions there not worth the money; and the
liberal managers nave stopped our free admss ions
Tory way of telling the truth about their perfor-
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