The Sun. — 1812-02-10 (London, England)

HORRID MURDER.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Bailey, 00 the Old Park, near Wellington, in Shropshire, was found murdered in a stone-quarry near that place : there was a deep wound on the crown of his head, another over his eyes, both apparently made with a large sharp instrument, and two deep gashes across his throat: his head was dreadfully fradured in several places. His house was ransacked, all the drawers, &c. opened, every thing of value taken, and the keys were put in his pocket. There was no blood found near the body. Some suspicions being entertained respeEling‘ a neighbour, who had attempted to borrow money from the deceased, he was apprehended, and stands charged with the murder by the Coroner's Inquisition. It appears that the prisoner lived about a mile from the deceased, and one of theneighbours stated, that she saw Bailey go by her house towards that of the prisoner, about live o'clock on the night when the murder was committed. Another witness said, she saw the prisoner, about nine o'clock on the same night, dragging something from a new built house, in which he carried on his business of a cooper—that he left the burden on the steps while he looked up and down the road, and then dragged it round 'he house. Upon examining these premises, much blood was discovered upon the -walls, and on the floor in the cellar ; the former had been scraped, and the latter was covered with sand : The prisoner accounted for this blood by saying, that part of a horse had been left there. A shirt was found under the coals in the cellar, having the initials of the deceased upon it. In the prisoner's house a cooper's adze was discovered, with marks of blood upon it, and the edge of which fitted the wounds on the top of the head and over the eyes of the deceased ; the fradures on the skull corresponded with the hammer-formed part °lithe adze. The prisoner was committed to Shrewsbury county gaol on Monday. He was formerly a resident of that town.  On Tuesday night, between seven and eight o'clock, as a servant man of Mr. Beal's, of Little Smeaton, was returning home Irom Sutton, he was stopped by two men, who dragged him off his horse, and stripped him of all his cloaths, and then tied him on the animal in a state of nudity, when, they Need some laudanum into his mouth, and severely cut hls lips with the bottle. He arrived safe into his maslees fold-yard, where he was discovered in that wretched situation. His cloaths were afterwards found thrown over a hedge, and two notes, one for a guinea and the other a pound, were taken fic;nt his pocket.  The Editor of Journal du Physique, published at Genoa, states that, by causing a very strong Galvanic battery to aet on a mass of clHrcoal, a substance has been produced which appears to have the greatest resemblance to diamonds : he adds, that he has in his possession a diamond on which there are several black points similar to charcoal.  The following advertisement is copied from the Plymouth Paper :—" Wanted a steady man in the seafaring line, not belonging to a man of war, for a husband for a widow woman. She bath a little property, and one child. Tile man will be sure to meet with an agreeable partner, and good employment in the mercrient service. None bat a decent, middleaged ran need apply." On Saturday-, Benjamin Hitchcock, the lettercarrier, underwent a final examination before Alderman Atkins, when he was fully committed.  BIRTHS On the 4th inst. Mrs. Hume, of Petcy-street, of a SonOn Friday last, iVlrs. H. Periol, of Newington• place, Surrey, of a Son. The same day, at Portsmouth, Mrs. Dickens, of a Son. On the 7111 111S1. the Lady of 1 humus Neave, Esq of 3 still-born child. On Saturday last, Mrs. of Lawrence POUlltneY. lane, of a Son.  PRICE GI SATU  Bank Stock, 2;2 Navy 5 per C ent. 93 I rish 5 per Cent. 4 per gent. 79 78 3 per Cent. tact:. 63,-i 6z g 63 3 per Cent. Ceres. 6z Bank L. Ann. 16 a s.:6ths