The Sun. — 1803-04-07 (London, England)

WILLIAM, HAMILTON, K. B. &c. He was taken.ill about a lostnight,ago he'retained his facultieslto the tat,,• and expired without a groan.7—Sir WtwaNt.was a man of most extraordinary enclowmentic wind his memory will be dear to the literary,world-by.the in. defatigable exertions which he nude through life , to- add to our stock of knowledge, and . 4,rnotlels in the fine arts, His,whOe, :life, indeed, .was de. voted to studies •conneeled with the ,Arts, and he made ev.ery,interest coot; ibute, to the:passion of his soul, He was the foster.brother ut his present , MA JESTy, which laid stlie foundation of that gracious attachment 'aid friendship with which 'he was honoured tiy the Kt N 9 through the %Auk of hiS public set V ice. _fly that' immediate protedion:he• procured the favourite appointment'of Minister at the ,Court of Naples, which he enkiye,t, with the uni.,Aetrupted approbation of the two Courts, .for, yeats, and which he would not chimp for more :uerative situations : during all this tune, we need-not enumerate the zealous and successful eir.,,rts that he made in bringing to light the buried treasures of Antiquity ; and in promoting a.. just and correa tasty Artsi. by. making known in his works the specimens of The pure and chaste stile of the classic mra that he h"J'd discovered., He was !Telly adive anti .succesaful in the duties of his appointment. He maintained the most' perfect harmony between the tts:o Courtsott a i4riod when it required all his influence amid address to counter. aft the deSigns. of those who had an ~interest in a breach of the amity that so happily subsisted. And the 'English Nobility anti Gentry who travelled into Italy, ipeak with the warmest. acknowledge:. moots of the splendid hospitality, with which.he re. presented his Sovereign. About twelve years ago, he married Lady' HAMILTON, and •never, was union. produttiverof more petfea felicity. The anxious solicitude, the unwearied attentions, the dOltielitlC, duties, joined,to the uncommon talents and momplishinents of Lady HAMILTON, were the sources of the purest happiness to them_ both, as, well as of delight to the circle in" which they lived. Sir SVILLIAM derived from his .LadY, in his last. ill. ness, all the consolations of which life was suscep. tible, and he at length, without a struggle or a sigh, breathed his last breath in her arms.'. Lord ,NaLsoN attended the, dying -moments of his friend Str.Wtwats HAtat.VroN witbsthe most affeelionate assticinityi-anJ.was Yrasvnt when. he cx. I Fired.  'f~-.  StJICi DE  Acv itistar..ci2 of suicide occurred yesterday, of zrl e*ltraOrdinar.,• most laMentable kind. Mr. HA.B.: GOO, partner in the linine and whOleSale haberdashers; in •Ro9d,' iane, Fenelinrch-siteet,menipted`6 period tG his otistenee,- at hi 3 StoclAroker's, Mr. Ct. K'S; in Princes.tmeet, cloe.to- the 'Bank: Fol. several days it had been obserYe4; that lie was, verymelan_ and a—partictilar .wildneas about his .eyet- . wth., noticed. Yesterday he rose soddenly from dirt tier, v:ent out to take a walk, it was -supposed.': lie went to his S'ock'-broker's as above, wtwe' he cow: cried. fcr sorme time with Mrs. Ct. Et x : but while left alone, he: kegiritr into 2 small a-partmen. tal;int frolti riff the dei. the Clerk's penknife, with' , Whleh'fte.'eur hreitit' in- a most deliberate ant determined manner, cueing, and, hacking it wiri resolution that could -Anse .anlifromAnsaniry. , He was heard to groan,; il.tiviTte 47tioiSei.atid.Ctt koinl ro* thecloset,'he').coa,r4i-ouild and :Woo* streaming from his throar.';'. This was, about half ' past two o'`elOck. The fail" transpifed; and a conCZul-se of people instantly assembled round the' dotiFir Two Sargeons• were sent for, who sewed. up the ' . He remained alive and sensible last night, but • so weak forn lois'afblood, and a cut in the wind' pipe; that 'very little hopes were entertained of recovery. • It is supposed' Mrs HAI3Gdb4D tedthii deed in consequence of losses in the funds; His partners and friends do not believe` he ever' seeculifted in the Funds, and impute his conduit to a fit of He Is supposed tobe" Worth so or 30,0ct01. and certainly any losses he may have sustained cannot, hare affededliisTortune, though they may have depressed lA'spirits. He has heere long in hnsiness, is sixty-siit'yettrs of tige, and has three children---:onekettro rtitighters married. i lis condut't is mote to lie 'imputed to a melancholy state_ of mind than any 'other misfortune.  • , ;CO)'p thefollowing from a Paper of this morning Du FL.—Yesterday evening a duel, of most se.. rious consequences, took . One at Chalk Farm. - About six o'clock two Gentlemen alighted fromtwo.hackney -coaehes,,.at, Chalk into .an adjbiniog :field, each followed by a set.. vent- with a.•.sioalt :box. . These,conteined pistols. The .patties took. their 'ground, at• about twelve paces distance, and 'both :fire& together. At, tlie first fire one 1:11, and the other 'was wounded in, the belly, supposcdAnorrely ; but be was- able to:walk off the field, aid go away in his .hackney, coach. • He .who felt is .a tail lian4A3ree Scotsman. COlonel.in the G.ua ids... Ile %vas cat rieti into Chalk. Farm Douse.. • His name we could not learn, .The other is, Col , of the t tiaras, as, we undet. stand ; bust we must he excused from meotiOoillg,. wines, or. farther.paticalars, till we are more accu. rately:infornitelati , . • In ;case of .a :war betWcen this Country and Fraiice, we've extremely likely to have the Americans as. our allies., in consequence of the condua towards them of the-• Consular Government respeti.: in4Lortifiona. flit French, it is said, have irtiptirtedetincri. the Peace, ten thcetsand roes of ilemip.froni Petersbuigh this article, preps rly replied, plight be of great use to that Nation. • The liforriteur of -Friday last,' adverrieg ..to the Convention settled by the British and o:at:avian Troops at the Cape, '•confents itself with the lowing brief aeostrophe,. ". A CAPITtitATION IN TIME of. PEACE!! !" in.answer to this pith) exclamation, If iMiy be :said--In time of .Peace Fiance annexed' .4,viirmort to its'ovv.n territories 1 fat time of Peace Franee compelled. Ehreabrettieirt td capitulate ! in time of- Prace. France:, first in vaded S.ivilzerlrthzi I in ip'z of Peace France again in; vaded that unoffehtliog country I' -iv time of 'Peen*