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The Sun. — 1819-11-18 (London, England)

STATE OF POETS.  A FRAGMENT.  We know not where among the same number of men, occupied in the same pursuit, so many instances of unhappiness could be discovered Some, indeed, have been the merited victims of their own intemperate follies; but to the lovers of good old times who shriek hack when they hear Of a modern Bard receiving 3000 guineas for the copy-right of a modish poem, it may afford soma consolation to review those who have been tenants of the cell or the garret, and whose stomachs have kept an inverted Sabbath of six days wit of the seven. Greene, it is true, died of a 3tirfeit of pickled herrings and old Rhenish ; Marlowe and Motteaux were killed in drunken quarrels at a brothel ; Fenton drank two bottles of Port every afternoon, in his easy chair, an:l died by attempting a reduction ; Randolph, Somerville, Parnell, fell sactifices to Bacchus ; Geo. Etheridge broke his neck down stairs, while bowing his ft lends out after dinner; and May was so delighted with the success of his " Breviary," that he went to bed one night atter having drank freely in apparent health, and was found dead in the morning. Some indeed assert, that his night cap was tied too tightly tinder his chin, hut Andrew Marvell attributes his death to an equally probable cause of suffocation. Look now on the shadow site of the picture : Denham, Nat. Lee, Collins, Cowper, Smart, Brook, G. A. Stephens, liampfylde, and Ferguson, all died in idiotcy or madness; of the last a most touching incident is related :—" When committed to the receptacle of the insane, a consciousness of his dreadful fate seemed to come over hint. At the moment of his entrance, he uttered a wild cry of despair, which was re-echoed front all the inmates of the dreadful mansion, and left an impression of inexpressible horror on the friends who attended." In a few days his po. verty-striken mother,' who had reluctantly coin. tnited her son to a public hospital, from her inability to support hint, received remittances sufficient to defray the expellee of his attendance at home; but they arrived too late ; the poor maniac was already dead. Otway was suffocated from the rapacity of hunger; John Brown (the author of Barbarossa), and Chatterton, were suicides. George Wither, Dekker, Cotton, Savage, and Lloyd,- breathed their last in jails. Lovelace, once the pride of courts, atter losing his mistress, like. Biron in Isabella, escaped a prison only by concealment, and died in a miserable lodging near Shoe-lane.—Butler and Ben Jonson each experienced the worst extremes of poverty. Andrew Marvell is supposed to have been poisoned.— Quarles died heart-broken at the destruction of his whole possessions (among which he most regretted leis books and
The Sun. — 1819-08-03 (London, England)

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--Tuesday evening, abort eight o'clock, a man,: whose name _is not known, but who is understood to be a German Officer, belonging to a ship which was.lyipg off Gravesend for upwardS of a week, bound for North America, went to inquire for lodgings in ,the New-road, Gravesend ;. the .person who kept them not agreeing to let them at theterms be offered, he went away, bitt in 'a short time returned and offered more, which being ae;' cepted; ha , took possession of, his apartments immediately. All the evening he appeared very restless, and was continually going in and out of the room. The mistress of the house suspecting he intended •rob her, as she takes in washing, locked her things up at night and went to bed, but was unable to sleep. in the middle of the night,' hearing him move about, she dressed herself, went down_ to his room, door, .and asked him if he wanted any thing ? He said he wanted some water she told him there was some in his room-; he said he could.not get at it, as. he.:hati done something and .could not get so far, but.wouldtske the key anal rush. it under the.i door, by which means she let herself in. Oa entering she saw' him'sitting on the bed with a dagger' in his hand, he had stabbed himself in three or fsur places. He said, " Look thereil have been doing something." She took the dagger from him, bot in her fright left it on the table it) his roam, while she went over:for Mr.jtichard— son (the nearest surgeon). On aeir return, they found that when left alone he had inflicted two Other wounds on' hitosif. One of the wounds, which is consideredthe most,dangerous, is upwards of 3 inches deep ; hot be is now in a fair ‘vay of recovery. ,He says. if he recovers he will do it again. He is at present so' ill that they cannot learn from himself the cause of this rash act.
The Sun. — 1819-04-13 (London, England)

SUICIDE.--An Inquest was held yesterday, be. fore_ltromas SH BLTON, Esq. at the New Betblem Hospital, Surrey-road,. on the body of Mr. Joseph Wells, late of _lslington. - The deceased was very much deranged at times, and frequently had lucid . inlet yak. Ile put a period to his existence by hanging, himself. Verdict—" The deceased ,destroy,d himself, being insane at the time." A -dreadful accident happened at Bridlington Quay, about half-past seven o'clock on ‘Vednes-. day evening last. ln the course of the day, Captain GRIFFIN, of the Swan revenue cutter, had come on shore, the weather being. at that time favourable ; but during the afternoon a smart breeze blew in front the sea, which as the evening approached increased to .a storm. At the time fixed for their return, the Captain and seven of his crew stepped into their boat and pushed off :for the ship ; but they had scarcely cleared the shore before they were dashed with awful vio, lence.against the pier, and in.a.moment the boat was shivered to atoms. Four of the crew.saved their lives by clinging to piles in the pier, but the Captain. and three of his men, one of whom was his.black servant, proved less fortunate, and sunk to xis& no. more. _ _  Last week a young man, named Peter Caulfield, happened to be on the mountain; of Kilrooney, in the neighbourhood:of Ross-trevor, where he saw a large eagle alight and take up a lamb in its talons, and carry it away in a low and straight direction towards the mountains of Mourne. The young man pursued it, and still kept in view ; at length, being unable to ,soar up the opposite mountain with its prey, it.dropped it at the tour of Ross-trevor Wood, not Jar distant from the Quay, quite unhurt ; the lamb is still living and doing well, Whilst carrying the lamb, the length of the eagle's flight, in its various windings, was upwards of two miles.  ST. JAMES'S HAY MAIMEU, APttit. 10 Hay 5l Os Od to 71 15s Od----Average, 61 Is 04 Straw Clover Ol Os Od to 01 Os 04----Average, ul Om
The Sun. — 1819-12-02 (London, England)

MONTHLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER.  The seed Wheat is got in throughout the principal corn districll, slid never perhaps in tooter' order ; the last seem to plant as wall as those earli.r sown. The Wheat or the late harvest is now found to rise defectively in quantity as in quality, so that its general crop is n t calculated to average much more than halt the expected produce. As the last corn crop, have equally dis appointed the farmer's expectations, it kill require some more effectual tuetasto, a on the part of Government (ander the adeittooal pressure of still falling markets). to yield some support to the Ti!la;:.re ot Eue,land, oil which the national pro-p• t itv so vitally dei.rnds. The severe frosts in the middle of the month, have rotted the Turnips in most Counties; the Coleseeds continue uninjured. The Ryes a 11 Winter Tares promise well for early spring seed ; and grazing lands still carry a good appeerance of herbage. Potatoes are a bill. avenip,e crop. The eddishes intencl.cl for early ssorvi.ig with Beans and Peas never ploughed more kindly. The NVool market is more brisk, lohg fleeces nom reaching 425. per tod, and Smith-Down 22d per lb.  Tit, Loyal Aildiess of the University of C mbriAe in toll senate to the VRINCE REGENT, wit be presented by the Vice-Chancellor and Vir ads of Houses, &c at Carlton House, on "Tuesday nest, to his Royal. Efghot-ss, who, according to risag-, will receive-it sitting on the throne. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —Tuesday night a female, About 20 years of age, was observed walking backwaids and forwards upon M,llbank. She went several times as far as Vauxhall-bridge, but returned evidently much agitated. A Gentleman, yarned Johnson, who ob,erved her, watched her motions till he saw her in the act of throwing herself into the Thames, over the new wall. He attempted to prevent her, but did not succeed : he called a waterman, who happened to be at some distance trout the spot, and the tide bentg returning, and rather low, he suceeedt.d ill saving her lite. She was taken to the phlic•hon,e, where evety assistance was rendered to her, anti on being properly re•toreri, she was vestio-ed, but she teluS,d giving any salistacioi y accoont of herself, except a calfl ut address of a Gentleman at Camberwell, where she was conveyed in hopes of being restorzd to her liiends. AcctoßNT.—Yesterdly afternoon as John Newington, drayman to Messrs. 11,-inbiny, Bilx on, and Co. blCWtors, 13IiCk -lane, Sni;alfields, driving his team in at the yard gate, he was jammed between one of the i,halts and the posts, and failing, one of the wheels passed over his hotly, anti broke both his arms and several of his ribs. He was carried In the London Hospitid with-little hope of recovery.  On Friday evening last, as Mrs. VENN, wife of Mr. VENN, of Albion-street, York, was sitting by the fire, site \V HS suddenly seized with a fir, during the temporary absence of her husband, when her clothes taking fire, and no assistAnce being at hand, she was so dreadfully binned aide :Le expired in ta st short time a:tcrwards.  ~! _..3.:  I' sRI,I A AI £ N
The Sun. — 1848-12-15 (London, England)

YORK, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The, businesi transacted to-day as follows :—Great Northern; °H c. —North British (Ex— tension), 4s.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6%. _  GLASGOW, DEc. 13. STocE Excii.surenc.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junctiotlp 57—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 46—Ditto, Halves, No.1, 98s.—.North British, Thirds, 83s.  SUICIDE IN CONSEQUENCE OF PECUNIARY LOSSES:. —On Tuesday night an inquest was held before Mr-Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of J. Buillivant, aged 39, who committed suicide. When de-. ceased attained his majority he entered into the possession of a valuable estate. He was induced to advance es considerable sum of money to Owen's Labour Exchange Bazaar in Gray's Inn-lane. In exchange for his money he received what were styled " one-hour" and twohour" notes, entitling him, upon the reciprocity principle, to the produce of one hour or two hours' labour. When. he wished to convert his notes into money he found that they were almost wholly valueless, and he was sompelled to take a quantity of articles from the bazaar which were completely useless to him. This speculation swallowed up the bulk of his fortune. With what remained he opened a chemist's shop, in Camden Town, where he carried on a respectable business for some time. Subsequently, however, he suffered severe losses, and at length, beggared in fortune and in hopes, he committed self-destruction, by shooting himself in the back part of the head. The following document was found in his possession :—" Oh, wretched man that I am, unfit for the world and all society, I have been a prey to swindlers , all my life. That villian T— has sacrificed me to triumvirate of swindlers, and I have been more victi. mised than poor Tom Steele. But who knows it bug myself, or who cares for it; and, having no address, , am unfit for any business, and competent for none. . cling to life, but nothing but disgrace, which is wore ° than death, stares me in the face. That villain T— holds an estate which was my father's, and to which: I believe he is no more entitled than the man in the moor] • and he has had the audacity to tell me that he wa justified in sacrificing me to the swindlers.”—The jute f returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1848-08-26 (London, England)

PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending August 22, 1848, is 245. 41/2d. per cwt.  ASHTON, FRlDAY.—Several of the Chartists of this town. against whom true bills had been found at the Liverpool assizes, were arrested during Wednesday night andvesterday morning. Their names are as follow :—James i.. Taylor, factory operative; Joseph Taylor, his son, ditto; 1 liam Aitkin, schoolmaster; Joseph Batty, weaver; Thomas,,,,llun Storer, shoemaker; William Macklin, labourer; ""' s Harrel), Boulton, factory operative; Edward Harrop, apprentices to a gas-fitter. On Tuesday last, Inspector which Marden, being in Liverpool, the Ocean Monarch, __ss of sailed for America on Friday, having put baciffro'l7:tdiff James weather, went aboard her, and there found Joseph .12. When Smith, known to be a Chartist leader in. Ashton. found he was stowed amongst a quantity of timber. tor Marden instantly apprehended and brought Being unable to himlnostipectoLiverpool, and from thence to,. Ashton. More persona are teixtipdebcateild, heo bweasshcoormaymiitntecdustotodluy.rokrdale. Strand, on the body of Mr. Horse-shoes, Milford-lane,3 anCinliMqnßeßstipacit ti7Thrse; pitnf-fdueistructiont e r dSauvi SUICIDE .I I? gFg s,A heldtheGßcAoroDnUeArTE respectable, Adolphuson WednesdayV e nn e rl as, atrdh circumstances:—Deceased, underss p. It' hrheoen committedparents were following ere highly himself for ability especially he was profoundly and for many yearnl it resident sin College,Cambridge, of whichhaddis t ihneg uwisateda In the mathematics acquirementsstreet,stfroarnda, lainvedlisheotout he s member. • I and classical professor, hoping Arundel-street, irsu nfi e lthat he should a mathematical . be able to obtain pupils.ln this, however, he was utterly took apartments arittmeeTtnsgaitlq: . unsuccessful ; and though a person of most regular and moderate habits, he found himself unable to maintain his position in society. After labouring with indomitable energy for a considerable period, he at length became despondent, and ultimately terminated his existence by hanging himself from the bed-post, by means of a silk pocket-handkerchief. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1848-01-05 (London, England)

LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest rate of Premium which is compatible with the safe! of Vie Assured, sat which is. agivalaut ta se ; ibey have AlMiliniaVellir a large subscribed capital—au Assurance Fund of a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of 456.1)001., arising from the issue of nearly 6,000 Policies. ANNI7AL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.  Whole Term. £0 19 1 £1 11 10 127 2 9 7 1 6 9 2 14 10 1 19 10 4 0 11 3 7 0 6 010  Age. 20 X 0 17 3 30 1 1 3 40 1 5 0 be 1 14 1 GI 3 2 4  For One Year. I For Seven Years,  One•half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit lertseyen years, or one-third of the Premium may remain for life as a debt upon the policy at I per cent., or may be paid off at any time without notice.  Policies assigned as a security to others, will not be rendered void in consequence of death by suicide, duelling, or by the baud* •of Justice. In case of death by the above causes, where the P.:Aides are not assigned, the gross amount of Premiums received will be retimed. _ _  Claims paid in one montk after proof!' have been approved. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock, and Policies issued the same day.  _ ...___ E. BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.  LIQUID ENAMEL: The Liquid Enamel, for STOPPING DECAYED TEETH• without pain, Is a combination of those substances, of which, according to the most recent analysis, the natural teeth are composed; and its successful application for many years by Mons. DE BERRI, the inventor, proves it unrivalled for its efficacy in restoring Decayed Teeth and preventing Tosoth-ache. Artificial Teeth, on a new and infallible principle, supplied by Mons. de Berri, who also remodels o'd sets ; and those persona who already wear artificial teeth, but wish to avail themselves of the most recent Improvements, can have a new set constructed, and a liberal allowance will be made for these already in use.  Terms as is Paris, whore the charges are considerably lower than in England. 29, Percy-street, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street. At Homo from Tea till Six.
The Sun. — 1848-08-22 (London, England)

THE JUDGES.-ST. GEORGE'S Cnuacti.--Yesterday forenoon Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Cresswell, the Judges presiding ever the assizes now being held in LiverNo' the Mavor, with several of the aldermen, cturi-1 attended Divine service at St. George's Church. T. B. fiorsfall, Esq., of Hasigphresahcehreidff.by thhee Rev. Rev./t,ir. Gentleman esk e tookt h , thehis cillors, and public functionaries the borough, also attended state, with the regalia of the corporation. The church sivnascrowded in every part. Prayers having been read, a nthew test from the 39th Psalm, Ist verse, "I will take heed unto my ways," on which he founded an artless and effective exf hortation to a religious ebhriaelsaei hi- moot life. The strength and efficiency of the choir was a general theme of comment and of admiration. —Liverpool Albion. SUICIDE OF A CALUMNIATED WlFE.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Bear and Ragged Staff, Upper Ground-street, Blacktriars, before Mr. W. Carter, on the body of Sarah Burgess, aged "3, of No. 1, Hatfield-street, who committed suicide under very distressing circumstancesIt appeared in evidence that the deceased was married about three years ago, and lived happily with her husband until a short time since, when a young man who had known her in the county came to London, and in the presence of her friends made certain reflections on her character. These were clearly proved to be false, and her husband told her not to care- about what was said, for he did not believe a word of it. After that, however, the deceased was nearly always in tears, and frequently told her friends (some of the witnesses) that she should never be happy again, that her peace of mind was ruined, and she should " do some harm to herself." On Friday night last, while her husband was asleep on a chair, she suddenly rushed to the window, opened it, and leaped out. She was picked up immediately, still breathing, but she died in a few minutes, her skull having been frightfully fractured by the fall. The jury returned a verdict" That the deceased destroyed herself while in a state of unsound mind caused by slanderous imputations."
The Sun. — 1848-09-21 (London, England)

LEGER.—Yesterday mornisg, between ten and eleven o'clock, considerable excitement was created in t„h; aneighbourhoodgentleman of deo following oinl n3i cictatdedi ldayio,s suicide the distressing bnyg bpi rocorut t thatnsgta a nc himself Le appears that the deceased, a young person named Nor man Howard, twenty-one years of age, lately residing in John-street, Tottenham-court-road, having spent th: • whole of Tuesday night in visiting the different saint, and places of nocturnal resort, entered a cab at ;fry above mentioned hour, at the Regent circus, Piccadilly, where in a few minutes he committed suicide, by discharging the contents of a loaded pistol at his 111 The deceased who had until the time of the raelancho tailor's occurrence held a lucrative situation in a large firm at the West-end, had during the last few days exhibited great depression of spirits, owing to some heall losses arising from the recent St. Leger at Doncaster. To this circumstance, coupled with general pecuniary embarrassment, the rash act is attributed. The deceased was immediately removed to the Charing Cross Ilosr tal, where Mr. Steggall, the resident medical officer, pronounced life to be quite extinct. It was found on examination, that the ball had passed through the bone of the skull, at the back part of the head, having been di*. charged into the mouth. DEA 111 01' TWO C LIIREN sr POISON AT Lolo.llSTER.—Considerable sensation has been excite . in this city, in consequence of the death of two children of the name of Kent, on Friday last, by poison, which was administered in the shape of gruel. It appeared that an elder brother of the deceased went up to his mother (the wife of a journeyman currier), and asked her whether he might make some gruel, for himself and brothers and sisters, from some white stuff which he had found in a paper bag, and which he took to be flour. The boy, aged about twelve years, accordingly did so, and after having partook, with a brother, of a portion of it, became very sick, and was obliged to go to bed. The younger children then partook a portiohnodf iotn, to bodies of the two children on Tuesday of whom died. A coroner's inquest r was st ienna t itohe surgeon who superintended the post motelmae when the surgeon who auperintended the post mortem exa el m n stated that be could find no trace of mineral poison. After hearing some further evidence, the inquest was adjourned till next Monday.
The Sun. — 1848-06-01 (London, England)

DOUBLE MURDER IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—STIL• TON, MAY 31.—Yesterday, in the afternoon, a lengthened investigation took place into the death of Harriet Burton, wife of Charles Burton, huckster, and Mary Ann, his daughter, both of whom were found witf., their throats cut, in the morning of Monday last. At the close of the proceedings a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against Charles Burton, then in custody. Since Monday the miserable man has confessed to the surgeon who attended him the particulars of the sanguinary deed. He said, " I first cut my wife's throat, when she was between asleep and awake, but finding herself wounded, she jumped out of bed, and rushed towards the window, from whence she shrieked Murder I' I then immediately out the throat of my little girl, and having done so, I rushed at my my wife, and clasping her round the waist, I repeated the stroke across her neck. She then fell dead at my feet, I then made an attempt upon my own throat, hut I was seized before I accomplished my purpose." Upon being questioned as to the cause which induced him to commit the rash act, he said " Trouble caused me to contemplate suicide. I intended to dstroy myself, but knowing that I should leave my wife and children in penury, I thought it best that we all should die together." It appears that on Saturday night, when the unhappy man went to the razor grinder's for the purpose of getting the razor sharpened, he was disappointed in the receipt of a sum of money, left him by a deceased relative, and, having contracted a few debts, he was fearful he should not be able to discharge them—hence the awful occurrence. Yesterday,heil made a will, leaving the whole of his property to his sots George, who was absent from home at the time the- fatal_ deed.was sominitted.