The National Register. — 1812-07-26 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  -~ JULY 06.  Counte s just within the door. The Countess said something to the coachman, who answered, " it is in doors, my lady." count and Lady returned into the house; he then heard some person scream, and was going to get some wea on, but coachman begged him no p; go, and he did not. The coachman and he were going into the housa, when Countess came out of the house. passed them, and tell d„wi: thought she had only tainted, and while standing by her, saw chit Count come out of the house, with the blood streaming ftom it, shoulder; the Count instantly returned into the house, and inane. finitely after the witness heard the report of a pistol in one of the upper rooms; this report was before the Count could possibly get tu his own room ; some people came up, and he accompanied them lot s the h011`:e ; the first thing he saw on the floor of the passage, was dagger bloody, and some silk on it, as it it came from a shawl ; desiring a pert on to go up stair) with him, he refuse, without having a weapon ; on which the witness gave him the dagger, anit took himself a poker. The coachman followed, and the witness desired him to go first into the room, which he did ; on entering the room he saw the Count sitting on a bed, alive, but speechless, and Lawrence lying on the floor dead, with a brass-barrelled pistol chase to him. which appeared to have been recently discharged. Matthew Ball, surgeon, of Barnes, deposed, that about a quarter past eight o'clock in the morning, a woman came to his house, aii,l desired hits to come immediately to Count D'Antraigues, for tilt Count and Countess were both murdered ; immediately went when he came into the house, saw the Countess lying on the Lot , Moe parlour, and a great deal of blood both on the floor and on her clothes ; then examined and found a large lacerated wound on la.r right breast, made by a sharp instrument, which had passed throu;,•!l the third and fourth ribs, into the cavity of her chest, front which a great eilitsion of blood had proceeded ; as soon as he found the wound was mortal, and that she could not live many minutes, witness went up to the Count to assist Mr. King, a surgeon, who had pre• viously gone up to dress his wound, and found the Count had receiv. ed a wound on his left shoulder, from a sharp instrument, which had penetrated four or five inches. He was motionless and speechless, and died in about a quarter of an hour after his (Mr. B.) first seeing him. Saw tw r small leaden bullets in the string-hoard of the sun, which appeared to have been shot fruit a pistol. When he entered the Count's room, saw Lawrence lying on the floor on his belly, with a quantity of blood under his face ; on examination, found a laaded pistol had been discharged into his mouth, the contents of which h.d vers. much I mewed and torn his mouth, and from which wound he had instantly died—the bullet still lodged in the vertebra: of the neck. The Coroner then told the Jury, that, as they had not only halal what the witnesses had sworn, but also the depositions read overt) them, it was unnecessary for him to go into a recapitulation theta:. He should, therefore, leave them to determine, whether, from the evidence they had heard, they believed, first. that Lawrence had murdered the Count and Countess ; and, secondly, whether he had coai. mined suicide, being in his senses. In about five minutes the )ury returned a verdict—That Lawrence had murdered the Count and Countess, and had after., ads commit:al suicide, being in his senses.