The Sun. — 1832-03-13 (London, England)

ATROCIOUS MURDERS IN UPPER  CANADA.  On the 21st of January the following dreadful orders took place in the London district of Upper anada :—A man named Henry Sovereign called a neighbour's house, and pointing to a slight ound in his breast and left arm, said that there ere two men at his house, and he was afraid they ould kill his wife and family. The neighbour, folwed by Sovereign, immediately went to the farm. 'he first object that attracted his notice on his areal was a little infant about three or four months d, burning on the fire; one of its legs was burnt T nearly to the knee, the back part of its head was mourned, and its body was much burnt. Near the earth lay another child in a state of insensibility since dead). By the side of the door was another, ► a sitting or squatting posture, having been struck ,► the head wi►h a bludgeon or some large instrulent, which occasioned instant death. A fourth 'as found out of doors at the corner of the house, Hess apd bleeding on the ground. About a rod om the house, in a patch which led to an old ovel, was seen a fifth in the same state. Nearly a )d farther in the same path was found a young roman, about 17 years of age, a lifeless corpse. In he yard in front of the hovel, lay the mother and nother little boy, close together, weltering in their lood. Close by the mother was observed the blade f a knife, all bloody. This was recognised as sovereign's knife. Sovereign, when other persons time to the scene of slaughter, denied that it was its knife, and took it out from his pocket, and it lso was covered with blood! Sovereign has long irutalized himself by intemperance, and had revered his family very unhappy, whom he frequently hreatened to kill. The bodies had the appearance ,f having been dead some time before the arival of the neighbour. These and other circumtaaces were detailed at the inquest on the dead lodies, and the result was the apprehension and ommittal of Sovereign to gaol. The Rev. Wm. lyerson, who relates these particulars in a letter, tates, that the day after the murder he called at the !ouse, where the mangled bodies still remained. le then gives the following harrowing description : Picture to yourself, stretched on one bed, close by he side of each other, all stiff and cold in death, a nother and five lovely children—the most of them very handsome—with the half-consumed remains of ►n innocent babe, three or four months old, in her irms. At the foot of the bed stood the aged tither of the lifeless mother, whose soul ap)eared to be oppressed with grief too big for ut,erance—a grief that wrung and chilled the very Seart, so as to deny him the melancholy con;olation of bedewing the cold remains of his :hildren with the tear of affection and sorrow. Was deeply affected with the old gentleman's itibmission and resignation to this mysterious thd most painful dispensation of Divine Providence. After sho;ving me the several places where the children were found, and returning to the house, he took me by the hand, and with a faltering voice said, .4 My case is like that of Job—all my children are taken from me in one day ; but I must submit." By the side of the old man stood an elder sister and brother of the murdered mother, both of them overwhelmed with sorrow. On being introduced to the woman she appeared to be incapable of restraining the violence of her feelings, but, weeping aloud, said 7" Oh Mr. R—, did you ever witness such a sight ? who would believe that any man would come to this ?' &e. Indeed such were my feelings, that after saying a few words to the afflicted friends I left the place as soon as possible."—American Paper.