Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-02-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DEATH.—On Friday morning the body of a nit n was found floating in the basin of the Canada dock. Investigation proved it to be that of the Abbe Alexis Tinet, a well known and somewhat celebrated character in the ecclesiastical circlets of Paris. On the 3rd of last month he came to Liverpool for the purpose of proceeding to America, and for that purpose secured a berth on board the Royal Mail Steamship Asia, which was to sail on the sth of that month. On the morning of that day, after having got all his luggage ready, he went out of the house (that of the Rev. Richard Vondernittee), and was not again seen alive. At the inquest police-officer 689 (Peter Harrigan) deposed that he was on duty at the landing stage that morning At about a quarter past 11 ,ielock the last witness brought the dead body of the deceased to the Seacombe slip there. Witness; placed the body in the dead-house. He searched it and found a gold watch, a porternonnie, half a dollar, and three franc pieces, £278 in English notes, two 20-franc gold pieces, three 10-franc gold pieces, one gold Sardinian coin, 25 10-dollar pieces 14 five-dollar piece!, and 22 one-dollar pieces. The Rev. Father Vandernitte remarked that the deceasedappeared to be labouring under excitement, probably induced by the circumstances attendant on his leaving Paris. On the day he arrived here he went out I for a walk, and was absent for a considerably length of time, and on his return he said he had lost his way in the town and had had a difficulty in finding his way back, as he could not speak English. The excitement the deceased manifested was not such as to lead to the supposition that he had committed suicide, and witness's inapres4 m was that he had gone forthe purpose of viewing the shipping in dock, and by some misadventure had fallen into the water and so become drowned. The deceased abbe, the rev, father observed, was one of the gr attest preachers in Paris ; he was a particular friend of the first chaplain of the Emperor Napoleon, and he had with him several letters addressed to the Emperor, thanking i him for faveurs received. He had recently preached at the Invalides, and had left Paris excitedly, having preached against the French Emperor zither too freely. He had celebrated mass several times without having ' renewed his credentials, and the fact of his preaching against the Emperor was taken advantage of to harass I him. He was spoken angrily to by the Attorney-General (so Father Vandernitte, who speaks English very imperfectly, was understood to say), who said, "If you do not produce your receipts to-morrow you will be in gaol." Under these circumstances the abbe left Paris hurriedly, and went to his friends in Brussels, but finding hieiseif '1 in no greater security there he came to England. Ile came to Liverpool, and had been remaining with him at his house; and although, as he had before said, he manifested some excitement, it was not such as to lead to the conclusion that he had drowned himself. The jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned, but how the deceased got into the water there is no evidence to show."