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The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1807-06-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  NEW-YORK, MAY 15.  There are characters who, though unconn-fled by country. nor endeared by relahisaship, interest the world in the vicissitudes of their lives, elicit wishes for their prosperity, and command sympathy in all their amiitions. Those whom age has advanced to the climederic of reputation, mankind behold in silent melancholy borne from the stage, assured the settled atfeftiun of their fellow.creatures must long have presaged the approbation of him, before whom their earthly conduct is now to be recounted. But the young, yet unrnstured by time, and so often blasted by depravity in the bud of greatness, create anxiety for the fate of endowments which may exalt them the protators of their country, and exe nplify the loveliness of virtue and d gnity of talents.— Such sensations as these were, perhaps, never more justly excited, than in the late dismal catastrophe of the life of Charles W. Monk, of Canada ; youth who long displayed those qualities, which. white they command the admiratinu, secure the love of mankind. He had just closed his cAlegiate caseer, where pre,:minence had ever been his station, and the world opened to him a theatre suited to the exhibition of those powers which his aspiring soul felt hitherto limited in their sphere. Separated for several years from his family, i.e had returned but to realize the hope of a laving parent, aid dispel the cares of domestic solicitude. The blandishmenu with which pleasure fascinates youth, the applauses of admiratiou, the encomiums which wisdom and morality ever bestow on ingenious worth, it might have been presumed. would have allurements too enchanting to be renounced at the age of susceptibility. and by a mind to which they would have been but the need of desert.— Yet, however ecstatic be its delights. youth escapes not adversity ; and if its misfortunes he not equal, sensibility renders them more poignant than those of age. Alter so long an absence, he had not revisited the scenes of his tender years above three months, when some unknown calamity seems to have darkened his prospeas, and presented death as the only comfort for his sufferings. One evening, without having betrayed any symptoms ot melancholy, the family were alarmed, after he had retired to his chamber, by the report of a pistol. Upon entering, he was found in agony ; the ball had passed through his breast ; the wound was mortal I his uncle, Chief-Justice Monk, inquired the cause of this desperate act ; to which be replied. " net goes tents me to the grave," and expired.—Such has been the end of a yowl; man, yet in his twenti. eth year. whom nature and his owl; efforts formed fur aa ornament in any society.  iIiETINDS OF
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1807-12-09 (London, England)

NDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. it', We have received Paris papers to the 26th last, t from one of which, the Mendeur of the 23d, w‘.: have 11,1 copied an articfe, in answer to His Many'. v's Declaratian respeding the Expedition to Zealand. It purports to be written by a native of Germany, in which country it is said to have excited a great sensation, but is obviously of French manufacture. Its 1 great length obliges us to defer several other articles until to-morrow. In this number is one dated Madrid, t!!e sth, containing two Letters from the Prince of Asrualas to hit father, the King of SPAIN, confessing his crime, and imploring forgiveness, and also a Declaration of HisMaJesrY, avowing that the PR I secs bad made a full discovery of the plot, and granting bis pardon. These letters aim? we the appearance of French rnanufadure. A public thanksgivitv has been ordered in Simi% for the escape c,f His MAJESTY from the plot against his BONAPARTE set out, on the morning of the 16th, from Paris, on a visit to Milan and Venice. He is expelled back early in this month. The Aloadefir states, in an article from Hamburgh, that General Pay MAN has been arrested, and that General IW•LrEa.ouarr has committed suicide. The Conscript Laws are to be extended to Deno:ark, and to be executed in concert with the French Minister.  An article, dated Calais, states:that the Courier who sailed on the 15th last, for Dover, in a Flag of'Truce, was charged with dispatches from thi Emperor cf AULT I• for our Court. The French funds were, on the 23d, 86 fr. 35  A Mail from Gottenburch arrived yesterday, and brought HAmburgh and A,tona Papers to the 21st, and Danish and Swedish to the 24th u:t.  The French troops have taken possession of the Castle of St. Angelo, at Rome, The Pore, we suppose, will soon receive his sentence of banishment, and be ordered to take up his abode in the French territories. The occupation of the Castle of St. Angelo is preparatory to the creation of another kingdom, the king.fom of Latium, which it is reported at Venice is to be given to Lt ciEN
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1807-10-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  .;  On Friday evening, a little before n're o'clock. a young man of the name of Pearce, was seen walking along Upper Lambeth Marsh, in a distressed and agitated rate, sighing and mourning bitetrly. Some minutes afterwards, the report of a pistol ww..• head, in a place called Cot-throat-lane, leafs to the water side, along the walled the Aewite biihop's garden ; several persons instantly ran toils spot Irons which the report proceeded, and brand this untortunate person lying quite dead, with bill brains all scattered upon the wound. A pistol wee also found tied by a handkerchief to hie writ & however, so tight as to prevent hies from dirnz the trigger. The only conjeetare that earl be t respelling this extraordinary precautioa is aawf• prehension on the part of the deceased last Sao • other person might be suspraed to have killed high The deceased was by trade a witeeleir4l44 has lett a young wife and two children to Isom his nn sappy fate. We understand, aft imiskitalbisia for s nee tires past, be led a lite of WINN molet. travagance, which at last caused bile to so** it the Guards. 'ibis condua produced great ash* piness between him and his wife, and peabehly lAA • to the fatal aft that terminated his eel'/'s... • The Sessions for the city of London this day at Guildhall, and on Wedeeeder ILtilry. Un Thursday last, the Loan Nava& escapel drowning. He bad been to to h.•ld a Court of Conservancy, and so his ret is a squall laid the boat on her beam esti, with, sail in the water. By the ,Bivity of the itle board, sue was most estraordiaarily prevented aping. i ' Toe sporting men left town yestadayfor,News. market, to be present at the famous race to be nil( this day between Cerberem and award. tot 1000 deguineas. It is imagined thc:-e is as much !isomer pending the issue, as on the menr:rabie race between Rombietonion and Diamond. lb. odds are in  favour of Ci On Tuesday, a shocking accident happened at Boston, Linculnshite. Mr. Mors.av, a small farm. r iii that parish. was riding upon a horse and driving his team. when, in endeavouring to pass over some bricks which lay near Bargate-bridge, his horse fell. and threw him under a wheel of the cut, which went over his head, and fra&urcd his skull so dreadfully, that he expired on Wednesday morning. Yesterday se'nnight, as Mr.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1807-02-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  Tccsday morning. Mr. Mardian was found in his bed-room, at lus lodgings, at the house of Mrs. Oliver, in Charlotte-street, Pimlico. with his ti.roae cut ins most shocking manner. He bad spent L evening,ou Monday, at me Magdalen public-hops , in Pimlico, as was frequently his custom, where he ar peared in perfectly good lvalth and spiriti, sad went horse to bed ahnut ten o'clock. He WAS a:rummies" to rite about eight o'clock in the stio:ning, and making his appearance at his usual time on Ttses day morulog, at ten o'clock. Mi;. Oliver and 1.. r servant went to see the they knocked at !. s bed-room dose, but receive.: nn answer ; the:. is. coosaquence, opened it. %%heti they diseovero.t lying on t!"e floor, with his throat cut, and a m at hortid spesiacle, occasioned by an uncommon e.'e. charge of blood. A surgeon was called in, Lilt .o ao purpii•—.he was dead and cold. No cause csn be assigned for the rash ad, bat ttice is every reeve to believe, be bas been sl;e.tiy deraiiged for sorial time past. lle has been frequently :;e3xd to say, tb.e devil was in Litre. and that be could feel him in Lis throat. Two %/Dili, were foam:. one is his pqatt. and one upon a table; in them he direits, that 14 body is to be opened, for the purpose of finding the devil. He was about sixty years of age, and by profession * merchant. He came :rota Seetlaril semeuese Yesterday inornlng, between the !man afemisball two, a most shocking murder was cesimilled Leather-lane, by a hog-beteher of she mei BOTCS4 by cutting his wife's them* Is a loaf 11 • wanner. He made me attempt to mum sok . now in custody. It is said that a proscenia* is Aga 10 be . . mencied against a parses bt the missm_ of for obtaiassi a mantas* keen, Whil la t
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1807-06-04 (London, England)

WEPLY TO SIR. JONCS *URDETT. Sip—l am desired by Mr. I'aull w hay, that your Dion. , ra-r.eNly at liberty, for the present, to decline c0nt0r0;;.,,,,, the request made in Mr. Paull's letter of that ruerowg, alu I conov.ve a is but retaamaaWe and proper, auri ~.„ he c..ukl have rizspeard. . •,' I am, Sir, your tutrA obedient Servant, May23ol.' 'C. WOLtEtr Mr. Tooke concludes thus : " I persuade myself, Gentlemen, ttat there not a man in the kingdom who will not approve resolution of Sir Francis Burdett, to have no I' tare discussion nor communication of any kind with Mr. Paull.  " Mr. Paull has had hit ample of pertunity (to which he was not ectidtd by any reasonable rule of honour) of wreaking his causeless revenge upnt, Sir Francis Burdett • and it is nut owing to Mr. ParilPs want of inclination, but to the error of c.:r two shots, which he levelled for the purp;se, that lie (Ed not extinguish the li!e of his genero.i, titre.  " After this, it would be rhirely a de.picab!e to recornmence,any cotresperlder.cs with Mr. From persons of his description, ShakspeAre iiAS truly told vs, that— ...  r All our roitty is rosotion g and our Jere:, ea. athence Mr. Teat annexes a pnqc.rpt, containing Mr. Paull's Letter to Sir Franci, immediately I 'ore the duel, the substance of wHch way given in his first pamphlet., and an Address to the Ele.ftors of Westminster, signed Francis Place and Witham Asians.  Mr. Ruravair. the unsuccessful Candidate for tht 'Borough of Downpatrick, has published an Address to the Freemen of that place, in wilicj he complains of various stratagems adopted to et:. his opisoneat a colourable return: and, sr 'erect. that a temporary Seneschal was 'This °Muer Mr. Ruthren describes in the.. 4. ,1,4 singular terms:— Timms We t, a common working slater, a me frequently betrayed symptoms of a deranged miregt-ro• even made attempts at suicide, illiterate, faustwal, ark' • 'r tee, the ignorant, but ',intent partizan of my advirsr r much so, that previews to the election, he has haat • • r declare," that he would submit to go out to the 114,4 • grist like a beast, t.i prevent my return for the Swart w Gentlemen, was the person selected to preside as th... S. ing O.hcer,  --- • •
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-12-13 (London, England)

ENGRAVINC9.—Put the engraving on a smooth board, cover it thinly with common salt finely pomaded ; pour, or squeeze lemon juice upon the salt, so as to dissolve a considerable portion of it • elevate one end of the hoard, so that it may form an angle of about forty-five or fifty degreas with the horizon. Pour on the engraving boiling water from a tea-kettle, until the salt and lemonjuice be all washed off; the engraving will then he perfectly clean, and free from stains. It must be dried on the board, or on some smooth surface gradually. If dried by the tire or the sun, it will be tinged with a yellow colour. Any one may satisfy himself of the perfect efficacy of this method, by trying it on an engraving of small value.—.llr. lomks We understand that the young Englishman, named John Moore, whose suicide we noticed yesterday, was the son of Mr. Francis Moore, one of the brothels of the General of that mime, who tell at Corunna. The only consolation we can now offer to the family (who du nut reside in France) and to the friends of this unfortunate young Mail is, that his funeral has been attended to with all becoming decorum, and that the proprietor of the Hotel de Montmorency has performed his last voluntary promise, in having his remains deposited in the cemetery of Pere la chaiw.__Cmirrier Francois.  Officers of Infantry are in future to *ear, for undress, blue frock coats, with two epaulettes, cocked hat and plume ; the hat to be worn oa all occasions. c.reept the parade, when the eherro is to he worn.  Nearly so,ooo/. is subscribed on account of the Stour Navigation Bud Sandwich harbour Company. Propords are at present in circulation fur establishing a Joint Stock Dairy Company in Edinburgh, with a capital of 23,000/.  On Tuesday, in the criminal courts at Paris, two Roman Catholic priests were convicted of swindling. M. Monnet, a priest of the church of Bonne Nouvelle, was condemned to twn years' imprisoutnent, and M. Pourcy, of the Monastery of La Trappe, to one year's iniprisomnent. Herrings are abundant at Southampton, and the French fishermen begin to show themselves. The pries to them is reduced to 3s. a bushel ; each bushel containing from 400 to 460 fi►h.  1.111:11.41'Ultle.  TRAVELS IN THE REPUBLIC OF COLO/111A THE YEARS 11r4 ANL Itta.ql  DT D.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-04-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  On Sunday night, a very promising young luau, the son of a respectable tradesman, who resides to the Dack-road, Ist' .ea, destroyed himself in a fit of insanity, occasioned, it is believed, by a disappointment in love. He had hen for the last six months te. tacked to a young lady of the mine neighbourhood, who is pie. seised of sonsklereble female attractions. and had been in the habit of meetiog her at the Unioo Chapel, Isliugtoe, on Sunday', at Divine Service. Ile was observed to be in a very distressed state of mind for a few weeks before he committed violence on himself; and his friends, who watched him, had reason to suppose that his agitation arose front the indifference exhibited lately by the young lady towards hint. On Sunnay evening he beheld her at the usual place, fur the last time, arid was there treated by bee with the most studied coldness, anti, iteleed.aversion. Ile returned hone, and appeared more wretched than betbre. De, however, supped with Ins father and mother and brother, who rallied him upon the toe! lancholy which had seized upon him, and endeavoured to argue him ' into his former good spirits. Ile seemed to be coescious of his weakness, and even supped with more than usual appetite. The effort, however, was followed by a fatal relapse et the malady. At about nine o'clock the unfortunate young man retired to his bed-room, leaving his parents and brother much relieved front their apprehensions as to the condition of his mind. In leas than ten minutes they were honor-struck at the report of a pistol, and upon going up stairs found the wretched object of their aprehmeions lying on his stain, and wholly deprived of life. De had put the muzzle of the pistol within his flannel waistcoat, and directed it in such a manner as to prevent the bullet coming in contazt with any of his ribs. Ile had shot himself through the heart. A Coroner's Inquest was held upon the body at the King's Arms, Park place, Back-road, on Tuesday evening, before Mr. Stirling, the Coroner for the county of Middlesex. It was stated, amongst other things, that the deceased had been heard uttering exchmiations when in bed, which proved that his mind was occupied with some overwhelming passion, and the words used were such as to leave but little doubt what that passion was. The bodily health of the deceased, it appeared, bad declined with his mental powers, and he had been conhned for some before his last visit to the chapel with a general debility of the system. The symptons be exhibited, however, were such as not to excite the slightest apprehension that he would make an attempt upon his life, the only change in his condor' to moat of those about him being the change how gentleness to Incivility. The Jury returned a verdict of " Died by his own hand in a tit of insanity." The whole neighbourhood was greatly affected at the event, as the deceased was a very excellent young trait, and no more than IP years of age.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-07-01 (London, England)

TERMINEI) SUICIDE. tered in great nuinkrs along the pier of Havre, on Satur- ,______, , ~ , --"Ile"-- „„ clay evening, 40 mark her appearance and rate of sailing. s swieruay an inquisition MIS taken before,i SWELTOW, Eg. Coroner, at the Rose. Illonkwelloweet Cripplegate, on the Several of our countrymen on board bad visited France on body of Ann 'Lewis., aged 411 years. this occasion, fir the first time, and they describe the view (Urea Lewis, the deemed's husband, deported that be was a from the vessel, when going down the harbour, as highly fancy cabinet-make, and on Monday ton, when he returned from interesting. his work, about half-past nine o'clock in the evening, be went to his apartment in a house in 31onkwell-street and bound the door The evening being fine, and the quay covered with spec- locked. Finding he could pin no adrabstioo, notwithstandin he 0 ! taints, equipped in motley garb, and standing in lines of was informed his wife was within, he burst the door, and kinked immense length, while in the back ground the piles of around the room, bet could see nc;tl.ag of his wife. He then went , to the cupboard, and found her suspended by the neck to some houses bore, in height, solidity, and sombre aspect, a I striking resemblance ta those of the Scottish metropolis. railing affixed over the do. Ile CIR her down !immediately, but i The profit of the C v amilla, without the aid of sails, is Ine every effort he k lmi spark u:•asidi ewaastinct. quite tnetlbetual. li'i A . laaatnss married aseam fcw bute about nine mites an hour, and as from their power of mak- deceased about ten years ago; lately she has ben eery entrees. jug way in a calm steam vessels often exempt their in- gent, and has reduced him to peaty and want. She was always addicted to drink, but lately beraine excessively drunken, and has tnates from the troublesome visitation of sickness, there contracted a nitrogen( debts. Witness gays her a sovereign ma can be no doubt of their superseding sai:ing packets in one station after another. Saturday evening, and at the time of committing this act she had not a farthing. Provisions are cheaper than here by a fourth or fifth. In Frances Clarke deposed she lived in the same house with the I mercantile business there is a complaint of stagnation. deceased; she saw her about on alondzy evening; she then said she was come to bid witness good bye, fee that she was going to die, and that she was determined to "make away with herself ;"
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-10-23 (London, England)

SUICIDE PREVENTLD.—Tuesdayevening,a young female of respectable connexions in one of the manufacturing districts, but who has fur seine time lived as chore amie of an architect, attempted to put a period to her existence by arsenic, in a fit of jealousy, occasioned by the discovery of some peccadilloes on the part of Act acducco. Dire had pruvidedlterself with a large dose, which she was mixing, when her seducer suddenly entered the apartment, and after a long struggle, got the paper limn her, and obtained a confession of her desperate intention. An explanation took place, which is likely to bring about an adjustment of all differences, as the young man, whose afEvtion for her has been strengthened by this fond, though foolish proof of devotedness, hnunxlictely declared his intention of making atonement for past suffering, by giving to the unhappy girl a legal title to his future regard. On Saturday last, as some workmen were employed in the ertetion of new buildings, in New-street, Vcovil, one of the men, named Fudge, who was just finishing the top of a stack of chinareys, finding the partition wall was giving way, threw himself oft the scaffold, about 30 feet high, when instantly the whole partition wall, with the stack of chimneys, fell with a tremendous crash, and buried him in the ruins. lie was soon extricated from his perilous situation alive, but dreadfully bruised. He was found under some of the scaffolding, which it is supposed broke the fall of the brick-work, or be must, to all appearance, have been crushed to pieces.—Dorset Comity Citron irle. _ _  The Northern papers give a long list of casualties during the late storms. The waters still continue out to a rery injurious extent in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, which we hear is MPSsioned by a sluice-gate at Brampton, near Torksey, being blown up by the Trent eagle. Many thousand acres were suddenly flooded by this alarming occurrence, and a considerable loss in sheep has been sustained. Antiquarians are of opinion that the Trent once brought the tide even to the Lincoln marshes ; and judging from the result of this irruption, the hypothesis is well fronded.—Lticobt Air*cury.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-02-20 (London, England)

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBIWART 20, MS.  The kading cot:tents of tit:: I!imitate and Etoile of Tuesday and Wednesday will be found to follow. The foreign Pipers contain nothing of any importance.  From the Moraines- of Tuebtlay, Feb. 17.]  The official part containa only some unimportant notices from the Dep.vtment of the 31inister of Justice.  Tot-Lot:sE, Frs.ll.  Thirteen Constitutional priests. coming front dilfereat parts of Catalonia, have arrived here : they come to expiate, In voluntary exile, unfortunate errors, the fruits of a ►ystesn which has plunged Spain into an abyss of mittfortunes. These ecclesiastics, who all found in our city the huspi:ality due to misfortune, almost all belong to the secular clergy. The third squadron of the regiment of Chasseurs of 31orbihan (about VI men and 110 !tortes, will arrive here on the 13th and 14th, on its way to Bayonne. It is going to join the remainder of the regiment at Cadiz.  (From the Etoik of Wednestlay.]  PARIS, Fey. 17•  M. Joseph dc lieredia, brother to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, who is entrusted with a mission to the Court of St. James's, rtlative to the liquidations and claims, arrived at Bordeaux on the 12th of this month, and set out fur London the fol.  lowing day. The French ennui! at Tunis has written the King's AttorneyGeneral at 31anwiiits, declaring that there is not the smallest truth in the story told by the Joarmal dr Cummerce, and repeated by the Pit*, that M. F. a merchant of Marseilles, settled at Tunis, has committed suicide, after hating made a solemn affidavit that he had committed the crime of Itarstry, for whieh M. Vita Costa, a merchant of Marseilles, halt been condemned to live years imprisonment.  (The Flolle, in addition to the bulletins of the health of the Princes of Con& in the other papers, gives a later one, of the 17:h February, lii.lf.past seven in the morning, ahich is not so favourable as that of the preecdirg evening.) FRENCH Ft: xna.—Pan is,