The Sun. — 1828-12-09 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  The family of Mr. Gray, one of the principal messengers at .the Navy-office, Somerset-hone, a very respectable man, has been thrown into a surto of the most poignant:affliction by the suicide of his eldest daughter, a tine girl only eighteen gears of age, who destroyed herself by Inking poison OIL Friday night last, under circumstances of a very rd;. unordinary and nwy•terious kind.  Mr. Gray resides in New ,street, ICKiniugton, and has a wife aid a family of five- children, of whom the deceased was the eldest, mid a must amiable and accutnplished girl. About a fortnight ago the deceased went to the shop of a druggist in the neighbourhood of her father's house, and purchased a quantity of brown arsenic, Oa the same sight she was excessively sick and ill at house, but recovered. On Friday evening last, sbe went again to th same shops and in a-careless .and rather playful maaner, said that the brown arsenic had di;.ite uo goon i, clearing the house of rats, and be* father requested he would send some of the white, whiell gi said was to be put on bread and butter, and placed so as to tempt the vermin, for the house was scarcely habitable for them. The deemssd had previously put her younger sisters to bed, and during the whole evening she seemed perfectly calm and collected, and us cheerful as usual. It .appears, that after Mrs. Gray had retired, the docens,ea' erixed the etsenie with some water, and drank it, Every possibto .. effort was made to remove the i pou from the 4i0., mach, but without effect; and the unfortunate girl expired in dreadful agony übout half-past two on Saturday morning Mr. Gray arrived.at home just at the time that his daughter was enduring the most excruciating torture, and she confessed to him that she had taken poison. While be was banging over her in a state of. mind which every parent will tit once conceive, she entreated Mai to be calm, and .. wheiu he fora moment or two gave way to a pa. roxygm of grief she made use of this rernatkabV expression. " What a silly mut you are, DI deer father,  The parents of the deceased have not •,:ne slightest idea of the cause of the act which hew plunged them into snob a dreadful state of wentul distress.  depth.,.coveted with 4,4 along - Courier. ' t"111 WA it DFA C T 4to d ~,—,-__y,,tepk On Sunday last thq tiramplans Were ap " ben.:).l4it4liti:ol;, AN A Wkc llera r ay, as a *wets, he saw a nunther of chile' . not more than ten ye ws old, cc,, "re'' the eldest of tileui , Ltettod round one of the large plar.attis, in which the 0,41g,,,1 them sel v,.... , . Lixtlaswickers and their friends '6 -'4" a-4end the meeting of yesterthiy, tAi oppoue the Loyal At 144,,- 1 . . eat punning at a name in the Ath14,4,. said t 4 b7.066vf tieliab ‘;‘, .. sie, that uIY "1114 ; iel‘v' them st,t it dawn. We We L'liete these ‘rrell.C;'4,-'6. 4 not buzicituds of mum* ail. ...NC ~,,mmit. v:94, -7-LiWs Iliercat;.i. LYre UtlitesCp some eet 1131threecealto41Ygo.% tut with rapidity-, aud 4 4 trumettstion of the Malvern Weser, that the radiation of calorie from the earth has great luituetree in th-tertaojug the ut,te of malaria. Thq fionowing is a brief auto'miry of his views ou the s4kb.i.kNA ; viz. all flume ,itaaetoo, while others where this pe.)4ess 6 tihniaished, are, 0ta.44.iibuypliorrt.aAnededijiwa.. txatAwy, =oh loss ributiiatts to disease ; debilitated 'eon , 07th,aersisant.iheihradivataioioni oaf calallortiienies. tat„.„,ely bui,,i.dib; 1 stitutions are invariably i4uutl to regain the tune and vicoar ar.i,e„ith, much qlnry perfectly and mare tjuielly, in pl:ii•os little inflnenc4 by radiation, or itoooved livor the tit'oete of its 't'LLOis. 0144 iii Utherl L'