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The Sun. — 1825-01-05 (London, England)

LIMERICK, JAN. 1.-011 Tuesday a general search for inns was made by B. WAR➢URTON, Esq. Chief Magistrate of Police,in the barony of Leitrim, county of Galway, accompanied by Lieut. Bindon, Mr. Townshend, and Mr. Cof. fee, police officers, when after a diligent search, thirty-two stand of arms were taken and lodged in the military barracks. The sante day, Michael Ityan was apprehended oa suspicion of murder at Bilboa, and brought to this city for examination. On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, one of the out-offices in which were two horses, the property of Colonel O'Donnell, in the parish of Trough, was mali. ciously set fire to, but fortunately put out by the tenants who happened to be near. On Thursday Lieutenant Bindon apprehended, on suspicion of being concerned in some outrage, James Donellan, who was before charged with having maliciously killed a cow on some lands, for which he was admitt. .d to bail for next Quarter Sessions to be held at Six-milebridge. Donellan was at work in a field about half a mile distant front the house, when Lieut. Bindon and his Orderly apprehended him.—( Limerick Chronicle.) Sir THOMAS PAUKYN, the possessor of Burnley. Hall, in tl►e early part of last century, was remarkable for his love of wrestling, in which he excelled. A short titt►e before his death, whicic happened in the year 1741, at the age of 78, he published a treatise upon wrestling, in one part of which, speaking of the excellence of the art; he says, " I receive no limbErlams, no darling sucking-bottles, who must not rise at Midsummer till eleven of the clock, till the fire has aired their room and clothes of their colliquative sweats, raised by high sauces and spicy forced..  meats, where the cook dues the office of the stomach, with the emetic tea-table set out with bread and butter for breakfast. I'll scarce admit a sheep-eater : none but beef-eaters will go down with we."—(Ackermann's Repository.) NEW WAY TO DRY CLOTII Es.---(A True Story.)—A sportsman last season, when abroad in the moors, perceived a very heavy shower rapidly approaching. He debated within himself, shall I have a wet skin or wet clothes? He decided for the former as the preferable evil. There was no time to lose, and no refuge from the storm. Ile stripped himself to the skin, and folding his clothes closely together, laid them upon the heather, and stretching himself close above them, covered them as well as he could from the rushing deluge. The strange phenomenon caught the eye of a sporting companion ntssing in that direction. Astonished and amazed. at the strange apparition, he approached the spot —he saw it was a fellow-creature, and while his dogs drew back with affright, he vociferated, 66 Who, in the name of , are you ?" "It is me, Mr. " What, in the name of wonder, are you about ?" " Keeping my clothes dry till the rain pass !" was the reply to the friend, whose fear and surprise was turned into laughter.
The Sun. — 1825-03-17 (London, England)

SCIENTIFIC BARB 111ITY.-The? following Declaration has been signed by 38 physicians and other medical Prosessors at Bath :-" BAT it,FEll.27.—We, whose names are underwritten, medical persons, chiefly practitioners, resident at Bath, do hereby engage and declare that we will, as far as in us lies, prevent and discourage by our example, influence, and dissuasion, those painful and cruel anatomical experiments upon living animals which to the disgrace of science, in our opinion, are made sometimes without necessity or utility, and frequently without any adequate end, under the plea of promoting medical knowledge. The gratification of mere curiosity, the illustration of favourite but unessental theories, or the repetition of any known and conclusive experiment, we consider very insufficient motives for the infliction of torture. We do thus protest against, and reprobate such conduct, esteeming it wholly unwarrantable and discreditable to our profession. And we earnestly recommend this subject to the serious consideration of all students in anatomy ; entreating them, under a sense of moral principle, not to he misled herein by the practices of others, who have thoughtlessly (as we hope), but unfortunately de. graded researches otherwise so meritorious and important."  A striking decision has been prenounced by the Court of Assize of the Tarn and Garonne, on a charge of murder brought against a M. Gignoux, a proprietor of that district. M. Gignoux had reason to suspect the fidelity of his wife ; and in order to satisfy his mind on the subject, pretended to leave home on a journey, while he only concealed himself in his own house. On the arrival of night, his suspicions were verified by finding his place occupied in the conjugal bed. Driven to fury by the sight, he fired two pistolshots at the bed, and killed the adulterer, who was found to be one of his own servants. He then surrendered himself to justice, and on his trial acknowledged the fact. The Jury acquitted him on the ground of the provocation he received.  On the 9th inst., the assistant of the Mayor of Chartres was assinated, along with his wife, by a convict who had been liberated after 18 years of imprisonment and hard labour. The assassin had entered the house of this officer begging his bread. He was offered refrt'sment and even requested to stay supper. During the time his meal was preparing, he perpetrated his double crime. Ile has been apprehended. At a Meeting of the Committee of Lloyd's held yesterday, it was resolved that it be proposed to the Subscribers at a General Meeting on Wednesday next to vote 1001. to Mr. Coox, Master of the Cambria ; and the like sum to be divided among the crew and others who were on board that vessel, for their humane and praiseworthy exertions in saving 547 persons out of the Kent East lndiaman, which they fell in with on fire on the Ist instant ; also, 201. to Mr. Bibby, Master of the Caroline, and his crew, for picking up fourteen soldiers whom they discovered on part of the wreck of the Kent the day after she blew up. It is needless to add that the proposal will be carried unaniously.
The Sun. — 1825-09-16 (London, England)

MURDER IN ST. GILES'S. • Patrick Wekh, aged 26, and Ellen Lyons, aged 24, were charged on the Coroner's Inquisition with the wilful murder of Mary the wife of the prisoner Welch in June last. Mr. ANDREWS stated the case to the Jury, and described the murder as one of an atrocious and horrible kind. Mary Donovan, examined by Mr. CaEssw ELL, stated that she is a married woman, and resides in Church-street, St. Giles's. • Knew the deceased, she was married to the male prisoner in Ireland about six years since; witness had known her for fifteen years, before that they lived also in Churchstreet, S!. Giles's, seemingly happy and comfortable ; five months since the female prisoner came from Ireland ; she was in the relationship of first-cousin to the deceased, and went and lived .with them; they subsequently removed to Little Turnstyle, Holborn ; she was unwell before that time; witness did not know the nature of her complaint, but said her head was very bad ; heard somebody say she was deranged, but did not think so, . She told witness. that she was jealons of the female prisoner; and wanted to go back to her lodgings in Churchstreet, witness told the male prisoner, and he begged her not to mind it, as she did not know what she was saying. This was in June laSt., _and the very evening she died. A day or two after, witness heard of the death, and . went to the place and helped the fentale prisoner and Mrs. Coghlan to wash the body. Witness found a cut on the head, and asked Lyons how it happened, she replied that deceased fell down stairs on the previous Sunday. Witness refused to wash her any farther until she saw the husband; the prisoner Lyons refused to remove the head higher up on the pillow, and kepi her hand on the back of the head. The prisoner Welch came in soon after, and on being asked by witness how it happened, he said she fell down stains,- and in attempting to carry her up again she fell back against the tiles, a heap of which he said had lain on one side the door. Witness finished washing the body and cut off the hair, and perceived a large cut on the back part of the head, with a piec'e of lint laid in it : the hair was clotted with blood ; the witness also found marks of flour rubbed on the bed. Witness was also present when the searchers arrived, and the female prisoner Lyons said the decased had been a long time ill, but she did not know with what ; she did not shew the cut on the head. Oti the Sunday the deceased was to be buried, but Mr. Kennedy prevented the funeral taking place. Welch then said, he (Kennedy) had no business to prevent his bury . • _ in g his wife. . • Cross-examined by Mr.
The Sun. — 1825-03-18 (London, England)

COLONEL BERKELEY.  As we yesterday gave an account of the recent fracas at Cheltenham, taken from the Cheltenham Journal, it is but justice to give the statement from the opposite Party, taken from the Cheltenham Chronicle. We shall forbear all comment on the cecv:ei slioopne,d:: sa and of caot ut errs ewbi lel col codtuouebttllleessle farther subject of legal inquiry. On Monday, March 14, on reading a paragraph inserted in the Cheltenham Journal of that day, Colonel Berkeley observed to two of his friends, that the scurrilous remarks which had been made on the Berkeley Hunt Ball; reflecting in the most unjustifiable manner upon the ladies who had honoured it with their presence, and the repetition of such remarks in the publication of that morning, were a source of so much vexation and 'annoyance to him, that he could not patiently submit to the conduct of the editor any longer—that as far as he himself had been calumniated and reviled, he disregarded their aspersions, but that the insult offered so directly to the ladies must be atoned for—that the repetition of the attack on the subject of the ball was the more inexcusable, as he, Colonel Berkeley, had hoped, that after the correct and unimpeachable statement which had appeared in the Cheltenham Chronicle of March 3, he, Mr. Judge, would have admitted his error, or at the least, would not have resumed such remarks as he must well know were calculated to offend, and to provoke a breach of the peace; but that in the paper which he then held in his hand, the insult was not only repeated, but aggravated ; and that he was determined to call on Mr. Judge for some explana. tion.  Colonel Berkeley accordingly requested his two friends to accompany him, and to witness any transaction which might occur. They complied with his request; and understanding that Mr. Judge resided in North-street, they far a very long time paraded that street, as well as Albion-street and Portland-street, in the hope of meeting him in public view._ HHaving waited without success, they ascertained that Mr. Judge was at his lodgings, and that they accordingly repaired there. On entering the room in which Mr. Judge was, Colonel Berkeley said, " Mr. Judge, I must request to know the au. thor of the foul calumnies which have appeared in your paper, on me particularly, and on my friends generally. Mr. Judge replied, " Whom have I the honour of address ing ?"—Colonel Berkeley answered, " lam Colonel Berkeley." Mr. Judge then observed, that he should be happy to meet him at the office and explain. Colonel Berkeley said, " No, the present time must • furnish the information, and in this place." Mr. Judge declined making any answer; when Colonel Berkeley took him by the collar with his left hind, and with his right inflicted a severe chastisement with a hand-whip, to which Mr. Judge offered no resistance, except by kicking and screaming " Murder ! for God's sake let me go !" and similar expressions of great pain. During the whole correction no person approached or touched Mr. Judge, except Colonel Berkeley, and some of the servants who came to his, Mr. Judge's, assistance.  Bow-ST
The Sun. — 1825-07-23 (London, England)

THURSDAY, JULY 21. Trroz. Wright, aged 32, was capitally indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at Great•Grimsby, in this County. Rolsert Hill, a journeyman in-the service of the prisoner, who is a hair-dresser, was sent by him on the 2d of 31ay to dress a gentleman's hair at the White Hart. Witness went,- btit -found nobody there. On his return he remonstrated with the-prisoner for having played him such a trick. Soon afterwards the prisoner took up a comb and a pair of scissors, and said he was gning.to cut a gentleman's hair. He was at this time fresh-, neither drunk nor sober. His wife begged him not to go out. She. was standing between him and the door. He stretched. Out his hind as if to put her aside ; but without any great vio. knee.. She struck the prisoner on -the urm with a hammer.— After receiving the push,.-she sat down, and witness perceived that she was bleeding... He said to the prisoner, " What have you donal• • Yon -havellied your wife." Hereplied4 " I hope I have not hurtlier•" and then begged witness to go for doctor. The blow appeared have been given at the lower part a the• .woman's belly. The scissors- were such as are commonly used. by hairdressers.  Ann Mason was looking through the window of the prisoner's house, and saw the push given by the prisoner. to his wife, which she described to the same effect as the last witness. Witness helped to place the deceased in a chair. The prisoner expressed great sorrow for having hurt his rife. He appeared to be intoxicated. This happened on a Monday, and' the deceased died on the following Friday. . E. Lanidon, a surgeon, found the deceased wounded in the lower extremity of the abdomen. There was little blood then about the wound, but it appeared thut a profuse hemorrhage had taken place, which had been suddenly stopped. On opening the body, the-wound was found to be about half an inch deep, and.a quarter of an inch.in width. The death of the woman was occasioned by internal hemorrhage. Two witnesses swore that the prisoner was a . man of weak intellects, and was frequently teased by the boys of the town. He was neither cruel nor violent, but when in liquor was perfectly insane.  The JUDGE left it to the jury to decide whether there was anirreiletnrycefoofunallie afoorettualthyt against the prisoner. An indictment for manslaughter, which had been preferred against the prisoner, was withdrawn. James Ingram was capitally indicted for a violent assault on the person of Anne Clarke. _ _  The prosecutrix, the wife of a labouring man, gave her evidence, when the Court intimated that unless the case could be carried much further, the Jury could not convict. The Counsel for.the prosecution said they had no other marial evidence.  Upon which the Jury found the prisoner Not -A mob of infamous women, who were waiting outside the Court brutally ill-treated the prosecutrix as she quitted it, and before she was rescued from their hands, her clozaes were nearly torn off. 13/Are Mr. Justice
The Sun. — 1825-12-24 (London, England)

PUBLIC LEDGER.] The Paris Papers of Wednesday, Morning and Evening, as well as the Dutch Papers, which arrived yesterday, are occupied almost exclusively with the death of -the Emperor Alexander.— They concur in ascribing it to the cause we mentioned yesterday, namely, an inflammatory sore thrOat ; whilst there is not the most distant allusiiin in any of them, of his having fallen by the hand of an assassin. Had a report to this effect reached either Paris or Amsterdam from any respectable source, it would to a moral certainty have found a place in one or more of the Journals which reached us yesterday ; and it may be therefore fearlessly said, that such rumour, if it rtrally existed, found not the slightest credit. It is probable, however,. that a story, similar to the one that has been imposed upon the credulity of: one of our Contemporaries, may have been, trumped up in Paris, and some of the chief towns cif Holfand ; but what would this prove, but that morbid disposition on the part of the human mind generally, to find something uncommon and marvellons in the demise of every remarkable persoilage, particularly if, as upon the present occasion, he had occupied a conspicuous place in the hopes or fears of the world 2 It would also prove the miserable and precarious tenure by which arbitrary power is held ; for no sooner does a despot die, than violence is supposed to be the cause ;- arid, as if he had nothing in common with the 'characters of mankind, the hand of a wife, a son, a brother, or a favourite, is selected for the enrtimissiou of the murderous deed: This, however, is really a waste of words ; for it is not the manner, but the act itself, that constitutes hirnAtte primary consideration ;r and we believe all too are agreed, that a More important event could..MWhave possibly happened in the ordi-nary course. of things. In this light too, it seems. to: be generally viewed on the 'Continent; 'and,- if it' has not produced -the same de-: gree.or sensation here, the reason is very obvious, nis::tobntry, thank Heaven! does not hold her. tranquillity by so brittle a tenour, as the life of any Sovereign, much more a foreign one. It is upheld by the moral, reflecting, and loyal cha,  racter of the nation, as well as by the undoubted excellence of her institutions. Here the King never dies ; and it is next to impossible that he can in a very glaring manner abuse his sacred trust. The people can, therefore, except in very rare instances, have no very serious ground for alarm from political causes; and whilst they have the same reason to be contented at home, they may see,. without much anxiety, a foreign crown pass from the head of a prudent and pacific Prince, like Alexander, to that of another, whose policy may be of a very different complexion.— The change may occasion unpleasant reflections ; but to say that it is an alarming consideration is mere nonsense, as applied to the British Empire.  [
The Sun. — 1825-01-01 (London, England)

AIS., and gives a brief history of all that have written on the subject since I:Pe days of BUCHANAN and of LEsi,v, Bishop of Ross, the unfortunate NIARY's best friend. There is no portion of History that excites so Much sympathy as that which paints the sufferlogs of Malay Queen of Scots. The very mention of her name brings with it deep and unaffected ,antniseration ; so that all which we can conceive of Oe.,uty, gracefulness, and virtue, rises up to our ioniginations, clothed in the deep garb of woes, -which proceed from female jealously, and cruelties are consequently exercised in a tyrannical manner by a woman, a Queen, and a near kinssman, who is represented by the best writers of the age as having been her equal in rank only, but her inferior in all the nobler qualities of the mind; and her superior in dissimulation, intrigue, plots, and treacheries, by which she brought the lovely Queen of Scots into her snares, and, after • tile torture of a series of years, basely murdered -her!  This being the generally accredited, and in a • great measure the true story, it follows as a mat•ter of course that any Work which appears to alter the face of the position, will instantly find opponents in all classes of Readers who have implicitly put their faith in prejudiced vindications, -and renounced the historians who really tad no -object in their description but a love of truth. -tioctoßeaders are likely to oppose the Volume • before-us, and,the-Compileuseems to have anti• cipated the- consequence, and does all that ingenuity could dictate to conciliate the angry •-Reader, by an honest declaration that he •itt sware•thenkure of the subject treated of will place hint before' the subject in a prima fuck point of view as an opponent of MARY ; but the contrary really is the case ; and to prove the fact, we understand that Mr. - CAMPBELL has collated and prepared for the Press a Second Volume from the best Historians • and State Papers, which clearly and undeniably ' implicate Queen ELIZABETH, through her Ambassadors, in all the plots and plans that led to Alaity's ruin and murder. To effect this important object with the least possible evil, Mr. CAMPBELL has truly and 'faithfafly given the Ac• e esation and Defence—and with that the marrow or substance of all which the best advocates pro and • con have advanced on her guilt or innocence This curious and really interesting advocacy, being the essence of an immense number of massy tomes, is introduced and finished by the some••times friendly, sometimes severe, hut always-impartial, narrative of England's greatest and best historians. The facts are borne out by a host of State Papers, from the Cotton Lib., from those of ll.eyseies, MURDIN, Sir RALPH SADLER, and rom the entries of the Duke of Noarorr.K ; • forming on the whole one large closely printed Volume (which would make two), containiog a • true history of the Scottish Queen's woes, and of • her trials before Queen Er.izAßETn. The Portrait of MARY, which fronts the title-page, is from an old Painting of 1580, formerly in St. James's Palace, and now at Hatfield, the•seat of -the Marquis
The Sun. — 1825-06-15 (London, England)

MORNING CHRONICLE.]  There was very little business doing yesterday in the English Funds. Consols for "the Account were all the. morning at 9]. The Commissioners for the !reduction of the debt paid 90 and 90ti for Reduced Stock. In the Foreign Market there was little variation, except in Greek Stock and in Spanish Bonds; the farmer had advanced to 10 discount on account of the very favourable,news. The latter tell to 23i.24 on account of extensive sales. The rumour in the latter -part of the day was, that a Spanish Loin was concluded, and that the particulars were in London, but that the public feeling was so much against Ferdinand, and; the bad faith displayed, that it cannot be brought forward, at least for the present. The South American Stocks -.Were rather higher, Colombian Stock 86. In the other Foreign Funds there was little doing, and no variation whatever in•the prices. The Share Market • was rather dill ; there was no variation in the prices worth noticing.  An. article in a late number of the Brussels Oracle is as follaWs About six weeks ago a mad dog bit a child at St. Quentin's (in 'ancient Picardy )—A man of the name of RAvit; . seized the animal and strangled it, but not it had bitten him likewise. The poor child- died shortly afterwards of hydrophobia, and ere long the 'same dreadful, malady attacked the courageous but unfortunate RAVI N ; he_ became quite raging, first seizing his wife, whom he injured severely ;. his eldest son, however, who was as strong as himself, laid hold' of hitri, and held him fast till' he received fhrther assistance. Again returning to a state of tranqUillity,lie,was about.to be removed to theliospital ; he was perfectircollected, and bid farewell to.all hid neighbours, who were much distressed at the melancholy circumstanced which surrouniled'hiro, 'A fresh access attacking the poor man, he' burst away and' tried to make his escape 9 • tire gens d'armes, however, ran after and seizing him, bound him with cords to precept further mischief. They finally brought him to the Hotel Men, but there the dreadful howling he uttered were such as to,terrify:the whole neighbourhood. In spite of every effort which the medical art could devise, death-carried off the unfortuate man in about 24 liourS..—ln consequence of this sad alfair,the Authorities gave orders for the destruction of all dogs found at large. A beadle who was charged with carrying into effect .the Magistrates' decree, and to whom, for that pu,rpose" a gun had been given, incautiously placed.it somewhere within the reach of his son, (a lad it'would seem) who took it up, and hot. surmising that it was charged, unfortunately it went off and shot a young man, 17, years- of the only Son of the' Mayor of Grand Frasnoy. The i,nvoinntary,murderer surrendered himself into the' hands of jutice:" Another bla* lead mu to has, been recently discoveiefl is Invernessire, on the, property of Glengary, It is sitnate•over the top of a rocky ravine; close -at the head of Loeli Idoety,