Yesterday Mr. Secretary C...
The Times, 1824-08-14T00:00:00

Y'estertday Mr. Secretary Canning transacted business at the Foreign( Office. On Thursday evening, a King's Mecssenger was sent of from the Foreign Office, with despatches for Madrid. Madame RonzYi le Begnis, and Signor de Begnis, are both engaged for the XVoicester grand musical festival, which js to take p)sce the middle oJ next month, and which i; the hunidred aid first meetinig of the tlhree clhoirs of Glocester, Hereford, and WVorceester. It is positively (leclared that none of the money which was remitted to Ztnte on account of the (ireek Loan has been pai(d over to Prince mavrocorda:o; and that .Mr. Haniilton Brown, thc friend of Lord Byron, wvho is a gentleman every wav equal to the mission, will proceed almost imniediatelv to the Mforea, for the pur. pose of' deciding, from his own observation, the coursc proper to be adopted. Colonel Gordon does not go out until December, before which time it ic expected that thc ('reek Government will be organ. ized with inLch vigour. A private letter, of a recent date, 'rom Zante, states, that Colocotromn, Pietro Bey, and the otier seceders, are all animnated with goodl-will to the cause. but that they have re- monstratedI with Prince sM1arocordato on his want of energy.- (Guue and TraveLller. 'I'hie Governor of' the Sandwichi Islanids, and the rest of the suite o: the late King,on NVednesday paid a visit to several emi- nent nmercantile houses for the purpose ot' purchasing samples of the difl'crent manulfactures whicil are likely to prove valuable in those islands. We understand that thiey protessa great desire to purchase 211 that they may want in this country, in preference to deriving tiheir supplies from the Americans, rwith whiem they now carry on a trade far more extensive than is imagitied and tihey estimate that the islanders, even in their present state of civilization, will require articles from this country to the amount of more thian I00,0001. an- nually. Letters from Port Saint Mary's, lated the 23d of last month, announce, that from the 17th up to the 23d, the whole of Andalusia was visited by an extraordinary and intense heat, and its effects had been most destructive. The people of Cadiz and i s vicinity have remarked, that appearamces somewhat similar have a;lways manifested themselves, previous to the dreadful visitation of the yellow fever. BtussesL, Aug. 8.-In the niight of the oth, a horrible muirder was comiimnitted at Antwerp, on Mlr. Leclitevelde, Lieutenant of the 15th Division. As he was retiring to hi, apartment he was stabbed in the side, and seems to have survived only long enough to throw himself into a chair, where he expired. His wife, 32 years of e, has been arrested, interrogated, and placed under tonfinement. lWe had been married to her otily five or sixs months,after havinig lived with her several years. Her excessive jealoury excited suspicion against her.-Ilaisnbtrgh paper. lshe interior of IValmer-castle has been greatly improved since Lord Liverpool became Governor of the tinque Ports. ir. Pitt was utterly regardless ot' either external or intertial ornament, beyond their utility. *Ve remenmber visiting the castle whilst lr. l'itt was tlIere, when vwe saw the halighty premier digging in the garden, and on being shown the interior, the Cloth was said fbr his dinner at a side table, with the simple appendages ofa knife and fork, a3id a wooden salt-ccllar.- eornldf paper. An afflair of honour took place, on ihe race-ground at Lincoln, oni Monday evening, between Colonel S- , attended by F. C- Esq., and Dr. C- . withi Captain IV -, as ilts friend. 'he principals exchanged shots wvithout effect, when a iiuttteal reconciliation took place. 'he misunderstanding originated at a public tneeting on the Saturdlay precedinig. AMEL.ANCHOLY AcciDENT.-BCtween the lhours of eight and nine o'clock ort Th(ursday eveisiig, as Miss Harriet Seymour, third (laughter of Major Seymour, of (iower street (fornierly at- tached to the Hon. East India (oinpany's cavalry) was dressing for a ball, some part ot her apptarel took fire during the imomentary ab. sense of her attendant, who had been sent into an adjacent apart- nient. Thie principal miiaterials of the dress being Italian gauze and thin muslin, instantly ignited, anid the voung lady, betore she could be aware of the circumstanice, was com'pletely enveloped in flanmes, which ascending rapidly to the bosom, throat, and head, rendered her incapable ot making a single effort to arrest their progress. In this dreadful state she rushed from the apartmenlt, screaming wildly, and was niet on the lansdiig by her motiser anti the mnaid servants the foriimer swooned away, whilst the latter, joining their shrieks to those of the sufferer, made some ineffcctual attempts to qaench the tire. The alarm reaching to the dining-parlour, where Major Seynsour and three or four gentlemen were assembled, they imme- iliately ran up stairs, and by the help of blankets, the flanes were effectually extinguished. Surgical aid was quickly obtained, but from the dieadful state of the young lady's throe, and head, very faiRt hopes are entertainied of her recovery. Every particle of the dress was reduced to a tinder, though not more than two or three mninutes could have elapsed froti the eommunication of the fire to its extinctioi. iMiss Seynsour is only in her 17tL year, antI is musc and deservedly esteemedt by an extensive circle of acquaintance. A man named Robert Charles was tried at thc Roscom- mon assizes, for firing a loaded gun or pistol at a posse of coostables, who went to his house to execute a manor court decree. There was a second indictment, charging his wife and servant.Dmaid with an as- sault on a fellow of the namne of Harrisos, who went to see the decree executed. It was asked by counsel, on the part of Charles, wvhat brought a party of police, armed vrith leaded carbines atid bayonets, to execute a decree, when it was stated that they were acting untder a warrant from a magistrate. Mlr. goileston, counsel tbr tie prisoner, desired to see the warrant, which he reat(l in open court. It was a most illiterate production, and was signed" Alexander Bond." It autlherized the constables, " in case any mole9tation should be offered to them in the cxecutio4 of the decree, to bring the persons so offtnid- ing as rioters betore some of his Majesty's justices ofthe peace." "T here," said the learnetd counisel, in animadverting on the istru- ment, " there is a prophetic warrant for you. Upon my word, if I was Alexander Boi,?d, would not, for my whole cstate, have this elegant production read in open Court this day." The Court ordered Mir. Bond to be fined 61. I he prisoner was acquitted. MUtRDEa.-A nMost extraordinary case of murder took place on Saturday Lnst at 1 Iploders. A young woman, named Ann Btsddon, about 25 Years ofage, in an advancetd state of pregnanicy by her sweetheart, was persuaded by him to put an end to her exist- ence by drowning herself as lie said he had tio intention of marry- ing her. Search was made for her on Saturday and Sunday, and in the evening of the lattcr dtay sIte was fbund dead in about 18 inches of water, close to the field where the said sweetheart was working on Saturday. The body on examination was found to be much bruised in different parts * it had evidently received some very violent blows especially upon thie head. A coroner's jury sat two (lays on the in- quest, and returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some per- son or persons unknowvn."i Great alarm exists in the neighbourhood. and certainly sonc grounds for suspicion, as the young man by whom the deceased was pregnant had made an engagement to meet her fyienda at Bridport on the saameday (Satolrday last), for the purpose of mating some aettlement on tle gi. Tliey altended, but he did not. An active investigation is adll oing on, by Sir M. H. Nepeanamagistrate in the immediate neighbonrhood, asisted by sotlm other genmlemen, and great hopes are entertained that the murt derer vill yet be found out.-Dorset Coulty Ch/ron*icle. Yesterday evening a coroner's inquest was held, at the Pcacock, in W hitecross.street, Cripplegate, befors Thomas Shelton, ESsqt., on the body of Annri Bruce, an infmast, about two years of ylaylng at a window, with two other children, one of whom threw ta piece of string, and the deceased,, in attempting to catch hold it, fell out of the window on her head: she was afterwards carried saurgeon's, who said he could render no assistance. Tfie child died inmmediately afterwards. Verdict-" Accidental death." Yesterday evening, in the Borough, about six o'clock, a short stout middle-aged mauctropped down, and expired shortly af- terwards. He was dressed in ablack coat, light waistcoat, and black trouscrs: had a metal watch in his pocket, maker's name Wontter. 'The body was carried to .Mr. Duan s, No. 11, Great Dover-street, Borough. CAUTION.-An elderly, man is goieg about the West end of the town commnitting depredations on unwary houisekeepers. lis plaun is to gain admittance into the house under the pretext of looking at apartments, asid while the servant is going to call her mis- ness, to slip into 'the psrlnur, or other room adjoinaing the passage, orhdl, and steal any thing that happens to be thera of a pottable nature.