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The Sun. — 1823-08-20 (London, England)

NEW TIMES.]  Consols closed yesterday it 82/i. The foreign funds in general remained at the prices of the day preceding ; but Spanish Bonds reached 38k, which was an improvement on their former quotation. We know not on what political grounds it is calculated that these securities can sustain their present value. Nobody, we presume, is so insane as to believe that the Revolutionary Faction can ever pay either principal or interest. It is very probable that the restored Government may recognize the debt either with or without modification ; but the ability to satisfy these engagements fully may perhaps be wanting. It well becomes persons who are inclined to venture their money on loans to  any party in Spain,- to reflect on the total dilapidation which' the finances of that country have underzone. No nation in Europe has seen its resources so lathentably exhausted by war, civil dissension, the total loss of trade, and the disorganization of society : and for our own part, if the were to recognize the Bonds to-morrow, we should think 38/ a price more than equal to their value. A foolish story was 'yesterday circulated of a defeat of the French in Catalonia so long ago as the 27th of July : other actions, also favourable to the Revolutionists, were said to have occurred on the 29th and 30th; but we need hardly say the whole was a complete fabrication. It rested merely on the report of i Master of a trading vessel from the coast of Catalonia to Genoa, and was forwarded by the Agent to Lloyd's at the latter place. The official re. ports from. the French Army come up to a later date, and completely negative these statements. —The liberal Journals lotolly complain of the enthusiasm shown by the people of Madrid on hearing - the - - rumour that King Ferdinand was releaSed. -- They say that the " frenzied populace" proceeded to ill-treat and even to kill some of the most notorious Revolutionists. We have no doubt but that this. is a great exaggeration. Yet sing•wlar as the' remark may appear, we have uniformly obserVed, that every exaggeration which tells against the Royalists, at borne or abroad, is eagerly caught up and believed, while the most disgraceful indifference is shewn to the ferocious and met. Mess massacres of the • Revolutionists. We have thought it a duty that we owe to humanity to reprobate the latter, not only as odious and horrible in themselves, but as nurturing sentiments of vengeance in the adverse party. Mina disgraced himself and his cause by the savage murder of his prisoners in cold blood, and by the burning of whole towns to gratify his ferocity ; and it is hardly possible to believe that 1 these barbarities have not provoked some retaliation from his opponents ; just as we are told ' by Sir Robert Wilson that the Turks justified the cruelfieslhey exercised on the French by referring. to the atrocious and horrible massacre of Jaffa. ' . ----- _
The Sun. — 1823-04-19 (London, England)

IGNACIO LUZ MADEIRA DE MELLO.  _ " Bahia, Feb. 15." A dispatch, dated Feb. 13, mentions, that in consequence of the want of vessels for the port of Lisbon, it was determined to dispatch the Infante Don Sebastian packet. It is stated that the desertion of the natives and the militia has been very great, and that the Junta was reduced to three Members, circumstances which the General adduces in proof that the spirit of rebellion had become very general ;—that the insurgents had compelled the townships of the Prado and St. Matheus, whence some supplies of Mandioca meal used to be obtained, to revolt;--that he would have taken possession of the island of Itaparica, but that its occupation could not be effected in consequence of the great force with which the enemy defended it, and the attack with which he threatened the city, which he hail realised by attacking the right and left of its line of defence. The General does not name the date of this attack, but merely observes that our loss was small, that the troops behaved very gallantly, and that the enemy's loss, which was considerable, included some officers left dead on the field. By the muster-rolls transmitted under the date of the 14th of February, it appears that the force existing in Bahia, consisted of—troops of the line, 4,222 ; militia, 3,851 ; total, 8,073. On the 14th December, the following was the force:—troops of the line, 4,301; militia, 4,374. Difference.—ln the troops of the line in the course of two months, 79; in the militia, during the same time, 523. The great diminution of the militia is owing to desertion.— The sick of the troops of the line in the hospitals and quarters, amount to 739. . .  The situation of Ireland harrows up our soul. How long shall we hear of burnings, murders, robberies, and every species of crime that can be supposed to fill the blackest catalogue ? There is not a post that arrives from the South without a list of outrages which would be dis. graceful to savages! We doubt not but there are very considerable exaggerations in the accounts, but, at best, they are such as we do not hear of even in Spain, where the people are in a state of positive warfare. The consideration of this subject carries the mind back to some of those circumstances, which have, in the first instance, occasioned discontent : high rents, and tithes; these are in a good degree re. moved—for the people in the disturbed districts, generally speaking, pay neither one or the other —and yet the evils still continue ; nay eucrease ! There are secret ramifications of a deep rooted and determined system of alteration, beyond the ken,of common observers. It behoves these who are concerned to look to what may he the consequences.—(garloto, Morning Post, April 17.) We regret to state, that, since the discussion on Mr.BROWNLOW'S, motion on Tuesday night, Mr. UuTctimsorst,,the Member for Cork, has been confined to his bed -by a severe- feverish Cold. The ,Uon. Gentleman, paired off on the Catholic Question.:
The Sun. — 1823-01-13 (London, England)

BRIGHTON, JAN. 12.-7'wo o'clock, P. Ald—l am happy to inform you that the report on the state of his MAJESTY'S health continues favourable. No bulletin was published this morning. The answer to all inquiries has been—" Ilis MAJESTY is better to-day."  KING'S THEATar..—The appearance of this Theatre on Saturday skews that the higher orders are beginning to flock to the standard of fashion in town. The boxes were well attended] and so was the pit. The Opera and Ballet as before, La Clemenza di Tile and The Carnival (!t* Venice. We find that Le Gana Ladra is to introduce Signor Poa'ro, who has a high reputation abroad ; but, what is somewhat surprising,.l Signor DE BEGNIS, who was engaged us a 13uji),1 is to assume in that Opera the serious character of the father. The Manager, it seems, in full confidence of his talents for the pathetic line, had before requested him to undertake it; the Signor however declined a province so different, from that for which he was engaged, but at length, for the interest of the Theatre, has assented.  Saturday the Duke of YORK transacted busi ness tit his Office in the Horse Guards.  The CHANCELLOR of the Excitcoura left town on Saturday afternoon for Blackheath. Friday evening the Duchess of K ENT, attended by the Baroness SPAEDTH and Captain CONROY, honoured Drury-lane Theatre with her presence.  Lady F. STANHOPE, we are concerned to state, is seriously ill, at her house in South Audley. street.  Letters have arrived from Trieste, announcing the death of M. Hutscuzu., the celebrated Jew banker of that city. Ile is reported to have left between 11 and 12 millions of francs to his son, A Commercial Letter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 17th ult., states, that, with a wiew to prevent smuggling, every Custom-house, as well in the interior as at the sea-ports, shall have the aid of a military body to enforce the Decrees of the Empire. The military will be placed under the direction of the Custom-house Authorities.— A respectable merchant in the City, on reading the account, observed, the only effect that would be produced by the measure, would he an increased rate of insurance to the consumer, as the bens de guerre would have to receive their bribe in addition to the existing rates. The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 17th ult. contains an elaborate Advertisement, charging the public authorities to arrest and send to prison two Students, late at lleidilberg. They stand charged with the crime of murder, the former having shot in a duel Mr. St. MARTIN of Hanover, and the latter having aided and abetted as second. A recent French Paper says that the Court of Assize at Paris has acquitted the Bankers B.tRILLON and RIBET of the charge of fraudulent Bankruptcy. The Emperor of RUSSIA has invested the Aulic Counsellor of State, M. VON GENTZ, with the Order of St. Anne, brilliantly set in diamonds. It appears that a great extension to the buildings at the Baths of the Caucasus will immediately take place, the Emperor of RUSSIA having adopted a plan presented to him for that purpose by General
The Sun. — 1823-11-21 (London, England)

MURDER.—Orr correspondent at Scarborough writes—"l beg to hand you the following account of a most wanton and unprovoked murder of a British subject by a Frenchman, as extracted front the letter of Capt. Jas. Fowler, of the Willing Mind, of Scarborougll, dated San Lucar, Sept. 29, 1823:—0n the 28th September, as the boat and part of the crew :of the Willing then at I•3an Lucar (Spain), were returning to. the said vessel, a French frigate's boat rowed up alongside, when one of the Frenchmen took hold of her painter, and towed her after them. Captain Young, of the Orb, of Searborough,' being then on the Willing .Mind's deck, perceiving it, 'hailed the frigate's boat, and inquired the reason of their towing the Willing Mind's boat In that manner; but no answer was given. •• Another English Captain being close by, asked Mr. Foster Fowler (who was one of the boat's crew, and second mate of the Willing Mind) the cause of this strange procedure, and whether they had given any provocation to the Frenchman ? He rephed he was ignorant of the cause, as they had not said anything whatever to the Frenchman. He had scarcely finished speaking, when one of the French sailors took up a musket and tired it, at about six aide distance, and shot Mr. Fowler dead on the spot. The fatal ball entered in at the left chest, and passed out at the back of the head. The British Consul very properly repaired on board the Willing Mind, took down the depositions of several "Wilful eases, and summoned a Jury, who returned a verdict of" Wilful M • der" against the French sailor. The Consul then demanded the murderer, and. has made the necessary representations of the affair to the French Government, the Governor of Gibraltar, the Admiral at Lisbon, and the British Government. On the following day , the body was removed nomn the ship, attonded by every British Captain, and the whole of the crews, dressed in white jackets and blue trowsers, following in their heal, in procession. The British Consul, with several respectable gentlemen, were ready on the shore to met the corpse, and follow . i where it was interred in a garden near St. Lucar, Fowler was 28 years of age, the son of thelats Fowler, of Scarborough, sail•maker,"—( York 3tritro. c iAthiec r.o r grasFeolst, er Courant.)  Capt. Chas. Fox and Capt. Webster (Aides-de-Camp to the Marquis Wellesley), at Lady Affieck's, in Clarges.street, from Ireland ; Hon. Frederick Lamb, at Melbourne-house, from a tour ; Lord Palmerston, from his seat in Hants ; Sir Thos. and Lady Hanmer, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from their seat in Wales; Iver Borland, Esq., at the Royal Hotel, from Liverpool ; Col. Baker, at ditto, from Scotland ; J. Elwin, Esq. at ditto, from Paris; J. Peach, Esq. at ditto, from Dorsetshire ; Sir R. Oresly, Bart. at the Clarendon Hotel, from the Earl of Coventry's seat, Croome, Worcestershire ; Capt. Rose, at the Pulteney Hotel, from a tour; J. Rumbold, Esq. at ditto, from the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Archer, at the Bath Hotel, from the Continent; Mr. Ormond and Col. Smith, at ditto, from Bath ; Rev. Dr. Aisleby and family, at ditto, from Tunbridge-wells.
The Sun. — 1823-10-31 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE.—Ii 19 511 id that letters have been addressed to the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre, by a certain Actor, whose popularity one of the most unaccountable events in our theatrical history, of such au extraordinary kind as perhaps never before were addressed from an Actor to his Manager.— We have not of course seen the letters in question, hut according to report, they are by no means characterized by the respect due to an employer, in any class of life, and certainly show that the writer does not under-rate his importance as an actor, or in his private station ; but us from all accounts it seems impossible to with. hold these extraordinary Epistles from the public eye, we shall take no further notice of the su b ec t.  Yesterday morning the Duke of CLARE CE ar, rived in town from Bushey. His Royal Highness returned to his seat in the afternoon. _  Agents for Lloyd's have been appointed for Carthsgena, Laguayra, and Maracaibo, the principal Ports of Colombia, in the Atlantic. The Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord Lieutenant, and Custes Rotulorum of the County of Southampton, has appointed NATHANIEL ATCHESON, Esq. one of the Deputy Lieutenants in and for that County. The Lord Lieutenant has appointed Sir ST. VINCENT COTTON, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire. Yesterday, according to annual custom, the Right Hon. LORD MAYOR, the Lord Mayor elect, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, several Aldermen, with their usual cavalcade, proceeded from Guildhall, in grand state, to the home of the Lord Chancellor, to receive from him an intimation of his Majesty's approbation of the choice of the citizens of London in their election of Lord Mayor for the ensuing. year. The Sheriffs, with the City Remembruncer, afterwards proceeded round the west end of the town, to invite the Foreign Ambassadors, Cabinet Ministers, the Judges, and other persons of distinction, to the grand civic entertainment on Lord Mayor's day. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER OF WrAur..—Last night the brother of the unfortunate Mr. NV emir, and several of his friends, went down to Eistree to identify the body of the above unfortunate gentleman, which they did immediately on its being shewn to them. Th:s morning his relations went to his chambers, No. '2, in Lyon's Inn, where the unfortunate man had lived upwards of five years, and the keys that were left by him with the laundress previous to his lenving London on Friday afternoon, on the fatal journey, were delivered up to him. Mr. WEARS was of rather eccentric habits, and whenever he went in or out of the inn, always held his handkerchief to his mouth. He was invariably followed by a favourite pointer, and the key of his chamber-door was a patent one, and always kept fastened to his purse, in which situation it was found in the field where he was shot.— The Inquest is now sitting, and a vast number of sporting gentry left London last night to be present at the investigation.
The Sun. — 1823-12-06 (London, England)

LNEW TIMES.] It is a proud boast of the administration of justice of England that a person accused of the most heinous crimes, nay, one against whom an indictment for such crimes has been found by a Grand Jury, remains as much under the protection of the law us if his character were wholly unimpeached. What has just occurred at Hertford exemplifies in a striking manner the truth of this statement. Two prisoners have been charged with an atrocious murder, a true Bill has been found against them, a number of witnesses are assembled, the prosecutors are ready, hut upon application on the part of the prisoners their trial is postponed for a considerable time. Every reasonable person will rejoke at this indulgence to the accused. If prejudices have been excited against them, those prejudices will have time to subside : if they have been restricted in employing necessary means of defence, those means will now be brought within their power. It is indisputably true that some parts of the Press have 'indulged in a latitude of remark on the case of the individuals in question, wholly, inconsistent either with justice or humanity ; but what consideration is there that such writers will not sacrifice to the sordid love of pelf ? At the same time candour must allow that the question relative to the publication of notices of crime is a very difficult one. —lt is physically impossible to stifle every rumour, it.is morally impossible to prevent all exaggeration in the report of facts. As to Newspapers their readers will not allow them to be silent on any remarkable occurrence. They must speak of it, or their very silence would be imputed to some corrupt and dishonest motive ; and all that they can do is to speak with reserve, and moderation, and fairness. In the case before us, it appears that there has been some misconduct in the persons entrusted with the collecting or recording of the evidence. They have, some how or other, suffered a great part of that evidence to transpire, and especially the confession of one of the prisoners. It is said that they could not help it, because the confession was repeated in the presence of a Reporter to a Newspaper. This brings us back again to the main question, how far the publicity of all investigation into crime is necessary or advisable. Either the Reporter bad a right to be present, to take notes, and to publish those notes, or he had not. If he had, that right can only rest on the general utility of such publications : and for the sake of general utility the particular inconvenience must be tolerated ; but if there be no such utility mid no such, right, then certainly the presence of the Reporter might have been prohibited, his notes seized and erased before his face, or their publication punished. For our own part, we do not pretend to decide either what the law is in this respect, or what it ought to be : only we think it extremely desirable that some plain and intelligible rule should be adopted, and that the general practice should be made to conform to it.  [
The Sun. — 1846-07-04 (London, England)

WOMAN FILLED BY HER HUSBAND, AT HER OWN REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred lately in a small village in Wurtemberg :—Adam Gayring, shepherd, a man sixty-tour years of age, of honest and upright dealings, loved and respected by all who knew him, presented himself on the Bth instant, before the authorities at Heidenheim, and stated calmly that he had just killed his wife. His declaration was immediately taken, as follows:—" My wife," he said, " as every one knows, has been suffering for a long time from illness, and at times the pains she had to endure were such as to affect her reason ; she latterly gave up all hopes of recovery, and continually repeated, that not only was life a torment to her, but that she feared that if I died before her, she would be reduced to misery. This morning, after we had read together the 4th chapter of the Book of Judges (they were devout people and read the Bible every day), she requested me to drive a nail into her temple, as Jael did to Sisera, as such a death seemed to her bort and easy, and would put an end to her sufferings; she said she forgave me beforehand for the act, of which she absolved me before God and man. A nail she said would not cause a great hemorrhage, and would make but a slight wound. As soon as lam dead,' she added, you can close the wound, put me on a clean cap, and no one will know anything at all about it.' After long resistance (continued Gayring) I gave way to the wishes of my wife. I took a nail and began to drive it into her left temple with a hammer, but the nail was too weak, and the point, instead of entering, flattened itself on the bone. I then took a small drill, but was equally unsuccessful. My wife grew impatient, and requested me to kill her at once with the hammer, which I did accordingly, by knocking in the skull. The body of my wife is at my house, where you can examine it at your leisure "—The magisti ate immediately proceeded to the house with a medical man, and Gayring under a strong guard. They found the body dressed upon the bed. On the left temple there were two wounds, and the right side of the skull was knocked in as low down as the temple. Beside the bed was a table on which was a bible, the nail, drill, and hammer alluded to. On the ground was a basin of water, in which the murderer, according to his own declaration, washed his hands before presenting himself to the authorities. Gayring is now in prison ; he is perfectly calm, and convinced that he acted well in fulfilling the wishes of his wife by putting an end to her sufferings. Some Wurtemberg papers state that the inhabitants of the village of Gussenstadt, where the murder was committed, left their work as soon as they heard of the murder, and spent the day in the church, fasting and praying for the soul of the departed.
The Sun. — 1846-08-19 (London, England)

DAGENHAM. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF THE POLICE. DAtittititm, MONDAY NlGHT.—Throughout the whole of DS tat Tel na aamn d l?o"mtfettiord3,ii sequent on a report which had gained considerable credit efiori:ditenrdaebvleenexienittehmeerantetprorpevoaliisl,edoola!- • that five of the police constables stationed at Dagenham, includhl the sergeant, Parsons, had been. Superintendent Pearce, and other officers of the detectivepolice, on a charge of being eonce:ned in the murder of the unfortunate man Clarke, and that an investikation into the, truth of it was being gone into before the Ilford bench of magist rates. apprehended b 7 In come particulars the rumour was found to be tee and on inquiries being instituted by the reporter, the tor, lowing was ascertained to be the cause :--At the inquest will be remembered that a considerable portion of the tittlf of the Coroner was taken up with inquiring whether Sergeaa Parsons was on duty on the night the unfortunate In Clarks was murdered, which inquiry was caused by one ez the constables stating to Mrs. Page (a principal witness) that he did duty for the sergeant on the night in question. The constAdenie d that he had made use of such a remarki, lay; the jury, after a most patient investigation, were.° opinion that he had, sergeant Parsons bringing forward *fa: nesses who saw him on duty at twelve o'clock on the nigio of the 29th. and at rstie o'clock and three o'clock on the morning of the 30th of June, when Clarke was missed. Thi evidence was given at the last meeting of the jury, and the Coroner said they were all satisfi,d that Parsons had d his duty in a proper manner. Among the witnesses examined on the first meeting of the jury were constables Kimpton and Batfoy, who spoke to id finding the body of the deceased, the latter throwing an?g cion on some parties living at Romford. On Saturthly Batfoy attended the examination of the parties brag before the 'magistrates at Ilford, nn the charge of ben': .concerned in the murder of Clarke, and, subsequently, :4 , returned to the station at Dagenham, but on being want d to go on duty, he was found absent. Sergeant Parsons coal not account for it, but afterwards it was ascertained that ka had been to Scotland-yard, and stated to the Commissioa,eg that the whole of the evidence aunt had been given bY im" poli.e before the, Coroner was rue. Superintendetu"' Pearce and other officers of the Detective Police were inl__ale# diately sent for, and proceeded, by direction of the Comin'gi sioners, to Dagenham. After an investigation. Sergeand • Parsons, with constables Hickton, Kimpton, Farns, r Batfoy, were ordered into custody, the superintendent feeling it his duty to resort to harsh measures, as gross perjury 13 been committed by some one. vrg. On Monday an tigition in • he circumsesiVes A. it , gone into before the Commissioners at Scotland-yard, and a late hour last night Superintendent Macquad, with sea ni officers of the K division, attended at Dagenham, nlO,O could nut be ascertained whether the parties would beto-, • before the magistrates.