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The Sun. — 1821-09-26 (London, England)

STREE T.—Betweelteil and eleven o'clock lasatie.y night, the watchmen on duty in Charles-street, Drury-lane, were alarmed by the most piercing shrieks and cries of " Murder!" which were shortly followed by a loud noise,- apparently as if a heavy substance had fallen into the street. On proceeding to the spot they found a decent looking man lying on the ground in a state of insensibility, ard ,beeding most dreadfully at his ears, nose, and mouth.— The first object of the watchmen was to convey him to the _Middlesex Hospital, where, having received medical assistance, he recovered a little, and was then able to relate what had happened to him, which was in substance as follows: He was enticed into a brothel in Charles-street by a female, who, after robbing him of about 201. in money, called in several ruffians, who beat him most dreadfully with bludgeons, anti afterwards threw him out of the second floor into the street ! The surgeons found his skull most dreadfully fractured, and notwithstanding every attention was, paid to him, he expired yesterday morning; but he was all along so weak as to be unable to give his name or address. The officers immediately instituted an inquiry into the matter, and five women, including the landlady of the house, on whom great suspicion rests, were apprehended, and lodged in the watchhouse, but the landlord and some men who lodged in the house have absconded. The prisoners yesterday underwent an examination before' the Sitting Magistrate, at this Office. Mary Petit, who was the first examined, it was deposed, by a female who resides in the opposite house, was the person who forced the unfortunate man from the window with violence.— Petit denied all knowledge of the affair, the man accompanied her home, and sent her for some victuals, for which be paid, and during her absence he was forced from the window ; on her return, she saw him hanging put, and he fell • she took him to an apartment belonging to another female, anti she heard a quarrel of a violent nature between the man injured and another voting man, living in the female's room, where she went. The iatidls;dy- of the house (Mrs. Hagerty) said, he jumped out of the window, and her husband, who was at home at the time, (but who has since absconded) had nothing to do with The affair. The young woman, to whose apartment Petit took the man, knew. nothing of his being thrown out of the window ; a man who lives with her, and not yet in custody, had a quarrel with the man now in the Hospital. Purzrnan and Roberts, the Officers, who apprehended the prisoners, saw blood upon the stairs, and was convinced there must have been a severe struggle before the man was got to the window ; they were ofopirtion that men must have been concerned in the affair. The priso•ners Petit and Hagerty, and the young woman to whose room the man was taken, were remanded for another examination.
The Sun. — 1821-08-17 (London, England)

RNI (..; POST. - N Fresh links of the conspiracy which marshalled the people.against the Civil Power and the military, are every day discovered. The existence of pre-organization is no longer doubtful, and it only remains to consider what measures ought to he taken to bring its authors to condign punish. ment. The subject, we have reason to believe, is in a course of examination, and should it be found that with all their care, the planners of that most audacious outrage have not been able to keep entirely without.the reach of the law, they will be made to feel the full weight oT the awful responsibility which they have incurred. The peace of a whole metropolis is not to be broken—the lives of the people are not to be sacrificed—nay, the very rest of the dead is not to be disturbed at the beck and pleasure of an unprincipled faction, who, by attempts such .as these, seeks to inure the ignorant and the deluded to insurrectionary movements, in the hope that.the time may come when they will be sufficiently drilled to dare at once to undertake revoletion. That obscure wretches should assemble holes and corners to plot conflagration aild murder, would excite more horror than surprise ; for the act, however detestable, Would not be new. But that men should violate the sacred trust reposed itt them, and instead of maintaining order amongst the people, should secretly organize the means of destroying the public tranquillity,— that they should teach and prepare resistance, where they ought to enforce obedience to the laws and loyalty to the throne—that they should pervert the spirit of thousands, who but for them would have remained peaceable 'and dutiful subjects, when they ought to give an example of steadiness and fidelity—these are deeds which, if theyshould happen to be proved, must create, not only deep astonishment and regret, but fiery indignation. Every sincere patriot must Atish that the matter should be seriously investigated, and the country has a right to demand investigaeon in order to obtain justice.  [MORNING cintoNiCnt.] The Turks are in great force in Moldavia and Wallachia, _much greater than was imagined, w ith a numerous cavalry.—At Odessa there are upwards of 4,000 Greek Refugees, andthey were no sooner liberated from quarantine, than they commenced a wanton attack in open day upon the poor Jews!! Their Synagogue was plundered, and scarcely one of the Israelites escaped without damage to his purse or his person. A second riot had taken place of the same kind, and the Russian Authorities were actually afraid to touch a Greek until some decisive measures with Turkey were adopted. It is melancholy to' see men fighting., as it were, for their own- religion, making such an attack, and under such circumstances, on another. It appears that Baron Strogonoff was highly indignant upon. hearing that his protest had been printed and published at Odessa. And it was the more ridiculous at Constantinople, as there litterally-Was not at the time a real Russian ship within the Bosphorus.  [
The Sun. — 1821-10-23 (London, England)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL have arrived in town ; the former from Scotland, and the latter from the county of Kilkenny. Major WARSURTON has arrived from the county of Limerick, and he 'has been for some hours this day at Dublin Castle, giving to his Excellency the LOrd Lieutenant, the Right lion. Secretary, the Chief Law Officer of the Cro,,n, and to Mr. GREGORY, the best information which can be obtained of the actual situation of the disturbed districts, or of the extent and object of the conspiracy, as far as his exertions had been sufficient to unravel any part of so compltcated a plot.—'We have heard  . . front a person on whose authority we can implicitly rely, that on Thursday night a policeman was shot near Adare.--A circumstance is men tioned 'to have occurred in the vicinity of the place where Mr, SPARLING was waylaid and wounded, that would shevv how extensive the conspiracy is, and how necessary energetic measures are for the'safety of every loyal peaceable person in the county. - When the report of the shot, which had been .fired at Mr. SPARLING, was heard by some of the peasantry, who were then working at about the distance of a quarter of a mile from the place, some of them immediately exclaimed," there goes SPARLING !"—Such horrible events occur so frequently, that the feelings of nature seem to be extinct in the hearts of some of the peasantry. If any personasks who is the man " who was murdered on such a night ?" the usual answer is " only a Policeman" or " only a Tithe Proctor."—lt is said that an oath, to the following effect, is administered to the deluded peasantry—" No Rents, no Tithes, no Taxes ! !"--(The Dublin Correspondent, Oct. 20:)  The Old Times, which is ever on the watch for some Opportunity of inflaming the ignorint, and giving confidence to the seditious, has a contemptible and self-contradicted story, of a culpable neglect of the precautions which the state of Spain renders so nece:lary ; and it adds the diaboheal insinuation--that the British GoVernment May, perhaps, think it " a piece of justifiable policy to expose England to the preventive check of pestilence, lest those of :ear and occadonal want of filod shoUld fail szyfidently to reduce her nundmrs .2" Is there any term of loathing too strong for such a pUblicatiou?:--(Durhani county Advertiser.) •  It is reported that a Jury will speedily 'be called upon to decide the legality of claims, embracing, it is said, neatly two-thirds of the valuable property longs enjoyed by the Corporation of a Borough Town in the West, nOt ,1,00 miles from ibis city. The claimant is a. very poor man, and very sanguine of success. Want of the " ways and means" is the reason assigned tor delay, a4dfliese, it itiould seem, are now amply provided bq a gentleman 'who espouses his cause. ( ,GazCtte.)' w Last eekttlic body Of a middle aged woman was fOunt.Pon We 86a-beach at Caroline Park, tiere it had .been left by the receding tide, and 'was- interred (unclaimed) in Cramond 'Church. .yard.—(Edinburgh- Ctiltecint,' Oct. W.)
The Sun. — 1821-08-14 (London, England)

CROWN SIDE.) PETTY TREASON AND MURDER.  This trial excited much interest, and the Court was excei sively crowded in everypart long before Mr. Justice HOLROYD took his seat on the bench. The Ladies formed a large majo:rity of the spectators. Ann Barber, aged 45, the wife of James Barber, was charged by the Coroner's Inquest with the wilful murder of James Barber, her husband, by giving him white arsenic in ale and sugar, on the 16th of March last, of which he died next morning.  Messrs. MAUDE and liAnDv conducted the prosecutiOn. Mr. JONES defended the prisoner, but lainented that he had not been applied to, or received hii brief, till this morning as he was coming into Court. • . Mr. MAtJDE stated the outlines of the case.—The deceased had had a small property of. his own at Rhodes-green, in the parish of Rothwell. He had married the prisoner in 1805. They had lived very happily till a young man of the name of William Thomson came to live with them at MartinmaS last. They had two children, the younger 9. or 10 years. of age. The mother of the prisoner lived very near, and was there at the time of his decease. Her brother had coma with another man and  prayed with the deceased on the evening before his death. The. prisoner would be proved to have bought a pennyworth of arsenic at 'Wakefield, on Friday, the -16th of March, and to have given it to her husband that evening in ale and sugar. The motive had been a criminal attachment to Thomson, with whom she had left her house on the 26th of December, and lived for a week with him, in a cottage of one room, which she had taken for the purpose, at Potovens, four miles distant from her husband's house. A horse and cart had been bought by money left her as a legacy by her father. Thomson's name was painted on this cart, and in this cart they conveyed some furniture for the cottage from her husband's house. The neighbours became so indiomant, that the 'prisoner and Thomson were driven with riot f"rom their cottage. The husband received her again, but Thomson was obliged to leave her society. It would be proved that she refused to call in a medical man, and said on the night of the 16th that her husband would be and before morning. The medical man who opened the body would fully prove that the deceased had died by poison taken into his stomach, and the evidence which would be laid before' them would leaVe no doubt that the poison had been administered by the  prisoner at the bar. We gave an outline of - this case soon after the horrid event occurred. After the examination of several witnesses, and the guilt of the prisoner had been -Pally ascertained, Mr. Justice II OLROTD summed up the evidence with•great pains, and explained the various points of law connected with  the case. The Jury retired for ten minutes, and found a verdict of Guilty.
The Sun. — 1821-09-12 (London, England)

GALL—If it be understood that fresh evidence may be called, it must also be understood that Mr. Adolphus may likewise bring forward fresh witnesses. George Gordon Gunn, No.lo, Charlton-street, Fitzroy-square.---I am by trade a tailor ; I was present at the procession of the Queen's funeral; I was in front of the state carriage at Cumberland-gate, and was not absent from half-past eight in the morning till late at night ; we came from Hyde Park-corner to Cumberland-gate, passing through the Park; the first thing I saw was two of the Life Guardsmen ordered by a serjeant to go up and clear the gates, and according to his orders they went to the gate ; they rode up to the gate, and knocked over several people ; then the cries of shame and murder were shouted' out ; directly when the procession came towards the gate they were stopped for about four minutes, and then the affray began about opening the gate ; I saw two peace officers standing with their batons and endeavouring to open the gate; they succeeded in so doing, and a party of the Life Guards came riding up Parklane. Then the Life Guards were riding about to keep the crowd from the gate, which was soon thoroughly opened, and the procession came through. The procession was halted at about sixteen yards through the gate. At this time a shower of stones and brickbats came towards the procession from the top of Oxford-street. Then I saw an officer belonging to the Life Guards ride up, galloping as hard as he could, and fired ; I saw the deceased fall when the officer fired. Be. fore he came down to fire, I got off the State carriages, and saw the deceased fall. Another shower of stones then came from towards Tyburn Turnpike ; they flew about in such a manner that it was impossible for any one to .tell from what quarter they came. Then I saw. the LifeG uardsmen form a sort of circle in the street ; after which an officer came and gave them the word of command, when they all sheathed their swords ; and all the men, as far as I saw, took their pistols and loaded them, and all of them rode towards Edgeware-road, except two men and a serjeant. One of the Jury observed, that there were no sergeants in the Life Guards, the Witness replied : The man had stripes on his arm, and it was from this that I called him a sergeant.— There were at this time more stones flying about; the three who were there loaded their pistols, and rode away towards Oxford-street ; one of them fired ; I did not see the other two fire ; then the cries were, " go on with the procession ;" accordingly they did so ; then part of the Life Guards that was behind, and the Oxford Blues came up; when the Blues came up they all rode down Edgware-road as fast as they could ride, - and the procession came down Edgware-road ; either at the first or second turning to the right, the Guards rode all down that street ; I never saw any more of them, nor any Life Guardsman afterwards. • The
The Sun. — 1821-10-24 (London, England)

MORNING CHRONICLE.] We are prepared for extravagame in the Ultra Journal, but the following passage from it, in which the disturbances of the South of Ireland are gravely attributed to the machinations of the Carbonari, is so outrageously absurd, so much beyond the flights of ordinary folly, that we own it did surprise us. We say nothing as to the inhuman recommendation to shut our ports against the unfortunate Italian exiles ; for no person can read the passage and peeservO sufficient gravity to be angry " We are loth to suppose that there is any deeper scheme in agitation, than such as-we have already described, or, to conceive that the diabolical plans of the Italian Carbonari can, by any circuitous means, have found their way into Ireland ; but the murder of Gianpetro, as detailed in the last letter of our private Correspondent at Naples, presents circumstances very, similar to those of the assassination of Mr. Going; and it is remarkabh that both the unhappy victims were retired agents of the Police. It is not many months since we had occasion to notice that there were in this country certain foreigners, who avowed the most atrocious principles imputed to the Carbonari ; and whose movements were in consequence closely watched by the proper Authorities. Subsequently to that period, we have seen a conspicuous Leader of the Neapolitan Rebellion arrive openly in London ; and though we have no reason to believe that he would engage in any criminal schemes here, yet his previous connexion with the Carbonari might render it not improbable that he would be accompanied or followed by some individuals of that sect. This is at least a possibility which may justly call forth particular vigilance on the part of those officers to whom the supervision of Aliens in this country belongs. A very wise rule was laid down, at the conclusion of the war, not to permit any of the leaders of the French Rebellion, of 1815 to'hnd a refuge in England ; we confess it would have appeared to us prudent to have applied the same regulation to the cases of equally criminal and equally dangerous rebellions of Sardinia and Naples."  We have heard, that whe❑ the plague last raged at Constantinople, a learned. Member of the Turkish Ulema gave it as his opinion that it was caused by a servant of the English Arnbasp sadoes playing on the fiddle. We leave it to the curious to determine whether the palm of sagacity, in matters of causation, is due to the Turkish or English Doctor. The plague is not a more constant guest in Turkey than disturbance in our Sister Kingdom, which has never yet tasted the blessings of regular order and good government. Carbonari indeed ! We suppose some of the Italian white mice men, after due preparation in St. Giles's, by the acquisition of the Irish language, have set out for the banks of the Shannon. Every zealous Orangeman• will do well to look sharply after the bearers of white mice or tortoises, who, ten to one, are Carbonari.  [
The Sun. — 1821-04-21 (London, England)

FOR THE SUN.  TO THE PROTESTANT ADVOCATES FOR LINRESTRICT  LI) .POPISH EMANCIPATION.  CAUSE and CONSEQUENCE of Sir HARCOURT LEES, Bart. 'Writing the ANTIDOTE, and other Works, in Ireland. There appeared to be a general conviction that Emancipation was to be conceded to Papists.— Protestants, from gross ignorance of its nature, were petitioning in favour of the measure, from the largest towns, as well as the smallest villages ; either an universal apathy, or an unmanly 'terror, prevented the well affected from stirring ; and Mr. PruNxETT, their great and „able advocate, had just declared, in a public Letter to a Chairman of a Popish Meeting,—" lie was at a loss to find a pretence for excluding Papists from Offices of trust and seats in Parliament." Under these aWful circumstances of ignorance anti dismay, I sat down to write my. Antidote, and such was. the immediate sensation it occasioned, that in a few weeks it went through five large editions. The streets adjoining the printer's and booksellers' shops used to be blocked up.by• inquirers. on the days of publication ; the printing office was forced, and several copies • carried off, -even my private house invaded by Gentlemen in their anxiety to.get a copy, who insisted on coming up stairs for the purpose of requesting even the loan of one. In short, Protestants' eyes were at last opened, all Protestant Petitions ceased, and have not .since been renewed; and the Popish Petition now goes to Parliament, unaccompanied by a single Protestant Address. On my return to my parsonage, to convince me (I suppose,) I . was .not far wrong as to the mercy and Christian charity of Papists, so fully detailed in the Antidote, and many subsequent Works, they set fire to my house, and four of my infants, with many servants, were near falling victims to their hellish malice. They formed a conspiracy * to murder me, and even sent one of their sworn Ribbon .Agents to bribe my servants to let assassins into my house, whom I detected in the fact, in the middle of the night, and desperately wounded the villain. - Not terrified, however, I still persevered, and after several successive works on the same subject, not only Papists, but, in some instances, individuals educated for Priests, read their recantation, and, in letters to myself, confessed, it was in consequence of having perused my works. * The two principal Conspirators unfortunately escaped by flight, and have never since been heard of ; three of the others were tried last Summer Assizes, at Monaghan ;—an Englishman of the 3d Buffs, bearing the best possible character from his Officers, corroborated the information of the informer, who kept out of the way, and, on coming into a crowded Court,ldentified the prisoners, and swore home to their plan, which he had overheard.. The Popish Publican was then produced, " I suppose with an absolution in his pocket," to swear that the prisoners were never in his house. at all.—Quere, Was this one of the present Pope's active or passive oaths ?
The Sun. — 1821-12-08 (London, England)

SEMLIN (IIII,NGARYO'NOV.I6.—We.have news from Constantinople up to the Ist of this month, The Porte had ordered, it is said by the ad vices of Lord Strangford, a species of conscription o,f the Greeks residing in the capital since the mouth of .September; by the organ of the neW. Patriarch, who is a blind instrument of the Divan. We may suspect a foreign Mut:lice, because , such a measure- could never have originated 113 the brain of a Turk. It is now announced, that the Government causes daily some of the G reel° comprised in these lists to be arrested and executed. All the Mussuhnans, and even the priests, never appear without arms in the streets, and excesses are daily ,multiplied. They mutilate the victims, and afterwards murder them, with cries of Ghrtns Moscow (Russian dog). The Servian Deputies or hostages at Constantinople are in the greatest danger; they haVe been. imprisoned. According to Letters front Sores of .the t2d 01 November, the Turkish troops (for the most part Asiatics) have collected more than 1000 Greek women and girls from the environs ole Salonica, and have sent them to the bazars et Salonica and Constantinople for sale. The!, letters add, that nearly 400 have destroyed themselves on the journey, in various ways, t° avoid remaining in the hands of these bar". barians. The majority famished thernselve: to death, and several killed one another:—it manifestly unjust to call the Greeks a vile no' contemptible people, and unworthy of liberty to the contrary of which these and mania'. other proofs might be given. It is alleged that the Jews have again performed a detesta°' part on this occasion : they furnished the Turks with lists of the most beautiful woman and g4r7/  • horn they knew. we'll in tonsequence of their nee admission into the houses of the Greeks for the purposes of trade. Letters from liermanstadt state, that the number of Turkish troops in the two principalities _daily increase. It is affirmed that 60,000 men  are on this side the Danube, and 70,000 are  encamped in the environs of Itustuck, &c. on the right bank of that river. The Turks began again to demolish the Christian churches in the villages, as soon as the report was spread that the Divan had refused to evacuate the two principalities, and to rebuild., the Greek churches. Saleh Pacha has also imposed a contribution of thirty-five piastres a head on the Christian Priests, who amount to nearly 12,000 in the two principalities. This is a fresh violation of the existing treaties with Russia. In Bulgaria and Rotnelia, the troops in their passage force aII the Christians to embrace the Mahometan religion. The news of the decapitation of Jordaki is not confirmed. MADRID, Nov. 19.-It is said that the King Has consulted M. Martinez de la Rosa, the pre_  -----•--- sent President of the Cortes, on the choice of a  new Ministry. M. Martinez proposed Arana, Osorio, and Dofoo. It appears that this proposition was agreeable to his Majesty, and that it 'will obtain his Royal sanction.