The Sun. — 1819-06-02 (London, England)

JUNE 1.  11 13 C. F. A nisteithim • Ditto, at Sight 11 14 Us. Rotterdam Antwerp 35 - 2 • 21 Us. Hamborgh Aitona Paris, 3 Day's sight 24 85 0 Us. Ditto • Mourdeaux, ditto . , 25 15 0 Us. Franhforton the Main Niadrid 37 Effective • Cadiz 3i Effective  Gibraltar . Baieecona . , `3 Leghorn - 50 Genoa... 451-Venice, Ital. Liv. 2 -Malta... ..hu =Naples 4O 'Palermo Lisbon ..... Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin.... .. ~. 133.....C0rk.....133 iser CeUt. • Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent.  BARBAROUS Mu anea.----01 Friday last were; comMitted to 11/41onntuath gaol, by the Rev W.' Edward Jones, and RI7 thard the murder of John Gunter, a pOor harmless shoemaker, who lived on the side of the Skirrid Hill, about three Utiles froM Abergaitenny. It 'appeared, on the eotifes-: sioit of cliuggand Jones, that Owen, about two years agO, had stolen a game-cock !rpm the der `cease'!, with caused him to •y a guinea to make pa . , it up ; When Owen observed, ". that he would he, sure to fetch it out of him, even if k were. t arenty , years afterwards ;" and on Monday night last, he put' Ills dreadful threat into execution, by going with the other two tinfortunate,prlsoners to Gunter's finttat, about 'tWelve O'clock at night, first pulling `off their clothes in a field adjoining the house, and blacking their faces, 'lmmediately on breaking in, they dragged the deceased out of bed,• pot a rope round his neck, and endeavoured to bang him, but the room was too low for that purpose. Owen'then struck' bins on the bead with an 'axe, and. completed his bloody intention 'by cutting him aunts the head and temple, until he had killed him. ()Wen lived in a cottage about a mile-frontAbi-rgavenny, and has been a bad Character for some years ; .Chngg is about IS,• and epptar4 to•baVe 'been drawn in entirely from giving way to.b‘ad company.; and Jones is a travelhug tinker, but has been acquainted with Owen for sonic time past. Great credit is clue to the Magistrates of Abergavenny, and particularly to Njr..Prothetoe, of Newport; by whose exertions alone. Jones and Chugg were taken.—.-(Gloucester joiirnal ) SRlClDB.—Yesterday a young man, named Widen, recently from the country, who resided at. the Shears '1 a ver n , Wood•sneet, Cheapside, put an end to his existence by taking poison. The deceased had since his arrival in London formed an attachment to the servant of a chemist ia Wood-street ; site did not discourage, his addresses, and his affection.tor her was of the most ardent description. Within the last few weeks his mind bad been distracted with something, but his friends could not divine the cause ; he grew cheerless and: titulanchoy, and could not attend to his business. Yesterday he went, into liollaUen, and to9k leave of :a friend, aid Culled a,t viuce vaults, and'drank an excessive JuJantity of spirits ;he went borne in- a state. of intuxica i;ou to IVoml-street ; somebody expressed their :stupri;e at his situation; he. immediately left the lioast;,.,, went to achemist's opposite, tsnd.purchased an ounce of sugar of lead, with which boot-tops. are Cleaned, and which he afterwards swallowed,. having mixed it in some water in >i tea cup. tie soon was in the most excruciating pain, and run ;ling over to the chemist's, told hint what .he bad done ; be also acknowledged what was the cause of his taking it. The -female whom, he 'loved had transferred.ber affections to another.— ehernit administered a most powerful antitiote,*bat'the coat of his stomach wavalmnst entirely desti'oyed, and he died in the shop Mai tew minutes. Neatly 400/. in base shillings and ,half-crowns, . were seized last week at a house near Moortields, just after their arrival from the Birmingham mar. nufactory. A father and son, named Dalton, are in custody. The celebrated Mrs. Charlotte Bird King, who :duped the innkeepers of this town, of Chester, and Birmingham, by fictitious grief, and at• tempts at suicide, has practised the same maneeuvres, at Gravesend, Margate, Chatham, and Canterbury. At Portsea she used to throw.blood off her stomach, and pretend delirium. , She dresied very plain and neat, bordering on, th; custom otQaakers; and generally, in her discourse,. used yea %tit( nay : she said her mother, Was 'Qaskeress. She was confined in Gosport Bridewell.--(Shrewsbury Paper.)