The Sun. — 1813-06-09 (London, England)

TIC.I4OLSON.  We yesterday briefly stoied that this Alonsfor I had confessed his venue----we are now ea:titled to give' a full Fitton:lt of this atrocious and deed. 'We learn, that on Mtiadavin consepti:nee of the numerous visitors (among whoth were Li, it Castlereagh, Lord Camden, and Lord Robert Sermonr),swho w.ent to contemplate the Supposed murderer, he showed repeated symptoms ofatinoyance and agitation : this circinnstance, together with the atteMpt to make him look more cleanly,. caused his wound suddenly to bleed 'afresh. This happenedlabout seven o'clock in the evening. The hemorrhage being of an alarming nature, an. ex'!Hess was imi»ediately dispatched for Mr. A: Cooper. He arrived at about eleven o'clock : Mr. Brionston, the Priest, came-about the same tune with Mr. Bonar. The wound was dressed, and nothing farther then took place. Yesterday morn ink, at half past six o'clock,- Nicholson, voluntarily requested Mr. Brainston, who had been with him a Short time, to bring Mr. Bonir to him intmediately. Mr. Bowie went to hint, when Nicholson burst into tears and begging pardon of Mr. 801101% expressed' hiswish to make a full confession. Mr. IVells,.the,Magistrate, who resides at Briekley-houie, in the neighbourhood, was sent for; and in the presence of the Magistrate, and other Gentlemen, Nicholson made, and-afterWards signed, a deposition,- acknowledging himself to be the murderer. The following particulars may'be,relied anion as authentic He states, that. on Sunday night, after the groom left him, he fell asleep upon a form in the servants'-hall,` the room where he was, accustomed to lie : that he awoke at three, o'clock by dropping from the form : he jumped up, anti was instantly seized with an idea, which he could not resist, that he would murder his mastet 'and mistress : he was at this time half undressed ; he threw off his' waistcoat, and pulled a sheet from his bed,- with which he wrapped himself up : he then snatched a wilier from the grate of the ser-vants'-hall, and rushed up stairs to his master's, room ; ke made directly to his mistress's bed', and struck her two blows oh the' head ; she neither spoke nor moved he then went i•Ott!lti to his mass ter's bed, and struck him' once across the face; Mr. Banar was roused, and 'from the confusion produced by the stunning violence of the blow, imagined that Mrs. Boum was then coining to bed, and spoke to that effect : that when he immediately repeated the blow, Mr. Bonar sprung out of .bed, and grappled with him for 15 minutes, and at one time was. nearly getting the better of him ; hut being exhausted by loss of blood, he was at length 'overpowered ; Nicholson then left him groaning on the floor. He went down stairs, stfipt himself naked, and washed himself all over. with a sponge, at the sink in the Outlees pantry. He next went and opened the wiltdows of the drawing-rOom, that it Might be supposed some person had entered the house that way : he then took his shirt and stockings, which were covered with blood (the sheet he had left in his master's room), went out at the 7 front door, and concealed his bloody linen in a hush, covering it with leaves the bush • was opposite the door, and not many yards from : he then returned without shutting the outer door, and went to the servants'-hall :he opened his windoW-.shutters and went th.hed (it Was not yet four o'clock); he did not sleep, though he ap-.. peured to he asleep when King came l'or the purpose of wakng him at half-past six, o'clock. He sta eel, in the most solemn mantier;that no person whatoer was concerned with him in this I.orritl ' deed ; and to a question put to him, whether he had any associate, answered, How could he, when he. never in his life, before the moment of* his jumping up from the form, entertained. the thought cif murder ?' He can assign no motive for what he did ; he. had no enmity or ill will of any' kind against Mr. or Mrs. Bonar." This deposition was regularly given before the Mogistrate, and attested, by Mr. A. Cooper, Mr. Herbert Jenner, the Rev. Mr. Lockwood, Mr. llott, and Mr. Bonar.  It appeari that Nicholson bad been drinking a great quantity of the beer of the house during the Sunday ; and though it-is not stated' that he was intoxicated, yet the quantity might have had some effect on his senses.  lii cousequenre of 'Nicholson's information, search was made for the linen, .and it. was found in a laurel bush close to the.house, covered with leaves, except about two inches : the stockings were very bloody, end, the shirt was alio rent almost to rags about the neck and front. Nicholson, who, beforethe confession, looked gloomy, fierce, and malicious, has since that period been perfectly calm, and has even an air of satisfaction in his countenance. He appears to repent his attempt at suicide, and it is- not apprehended that he would now repeat it,. though the watchfulness . of his attendants is not on ,that account at all remitted. He is at present in a tolerably fair way, but his recovery is 'somewhat doubtful, because it is feared it may be necessary to:re-open the wound, an operation which may be followed with dangerous consequences. Every thing which may tend to. agitate him is studiously avoided, and as few persons as possible arc admitted to see him.  Mr. Boimr rode to town early in the morning, with the i9telligence of .the confession to Bowstreet, and afterwards communicated the same to the Secretary of State.  The disputes among the Proprietors of thellaymarket Theatre are still so high, and there is so little probability of an amicable adjustment, that it isaitl to 'be doubtful whether it will be opened for the ensuing season.  on Monday the depot troops of the 4th 'regiment of dragoon guards marched into Don‘ca•ter, where they are to remain a few weeks, when they will proceed on their route t 0 York, and he joined by the i.ernainder of the regiment, recently returned frum foreign service.  Some time since, a man, apparently in a state of pennry ;,anti 'distress, was admitted into the Exeter work-house. Tuesday it was dieovered that he had 3001, in gold and silver in his possession, which; it is said, he has proposed, at his decease, to bequeath to public CbaritiCS 0.1 that city.