The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1803-01-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE. [From the blot:m=l.3  A young man, very well dressed, coming from Lyons on foot, arrived at four in the afternoon thine weeks ago near an inn in the commune of (.'hocas. He quitted the high road, and proceeded to a lonely valley, about 300 paces distant. There he was found on the Ist instant, stretched upon the grass, and dead, his face upwards, and a horse pistol in his right hand. The ball had entered benfsth the chin, and had passed through the head. A seco.id pistol loaded lay beside him. The fol. kwing billet was found upon hitn:— 1m of honourable iiarents at Lyons—l never swerwel from their principles. I be' those who shall perform the last offices for me, to let me carry to the grave the collar I have round my neck. Perhaps, if it had not been for the head on which the hair grew, of which that collar is made, I should have died a natural death ; but since the period in which Etc cut short her days, I have had no peace, and I see no happiness for me, but is going to join her. " I have informed my parents : by letter, of my resolution, and I leave them the power of claiming me, or not. It is this that determines me to call myself merely A. B." A passport was found upon him, but he had taken care to tear it into eight pieces, that his name and hi, family might not be known. It was found out, however, that the passport had been delivered by the municipality of Dijon. Round his neck was a collar, to which was suspended a jewel, containing hair. Coaformably to his desire, his body was burted with the necklace round his neck.  MOtnea.---On Saturday night last a cool, deliberate, and horrid murder was perpetrated in Greenwich Hospital, upon oue of the Pensioners, by inother ; the circumstances of which, as nearly as awe could collect, were as follow :—The perpretator, win. had been some years a Pensioner, who was of a disposition so violent and quarrelsome, as to render himself ve:ry obnoxious to his associates, and became so extremely troublesome in this respect, at the public-houses in the town, to which he was in the habit of resorting that, for a considerable time past, none of them would admit, or entertain him. adthout a month since, he had been guilty of some gross breach of duty, within the College, for which fie was brought before the Board of Commissioners, upon the charge of a fellow Pensioner, who acted In the capacity of Boatswain, and the fact being subst intiated, he was mulcted of two months pocket money, and severely reprimanded, but without any furtl•er disgrace. however, was sufficient to exasperate him to vengeance against his accuser, and another, his birth-mate, who had ceiroborated hie testimony, and on Saturday night he determined to carry his purpose into execution : he went in the dead hour of night into the cabbin, or apartment of the deceased, who was alone and wrapt in sleep, and with a large poker, at a single blow, literally beat out his brains, and killed him so Instantaneously that he never 'uttered a single groan. Fortunately for his bed-fellow, os whom a similar fate was intended, he had obtainci permission to sleep out of the hospital that night with his family. The murderer then went into the next birth, where an aged Pensioner was in bed, and minutely.' examined whether he was asleep, lest he might have heard any thing of what had just passed. The man erne, Itearl the blow, and expected every moment a simila: fate, lay still as if fast asleep ; but on the =St dezer having .left h'm, and retired to his own cabin, the man immediately got up, and alarmed tee g-.:se-1, a party of whom directly came to the place and secured the murderer, after a desperate mist sum 2,Lisday morning the Coroner's Jury returned their irrlict wilful autrder on the body of the otklea2a, ar..4 the perpeetratoc wa, committed to p,ruaacc.- Ad; but so far was he from evincing avy mss. <remorse for the deed, at he only deyg.; mart at Dot having the opportunity of hailt7:ne a may. who bad so fartnnuely dludaii"11111161#0111e.