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The Sun. — 1827-12-07 (London, England)

LEITH.—SUICIDE.—On Sunday 111 , t 7 C the body of a young n. clerk to one of the revenoe ters, was found in t 1;... 91c1. inlmor, nearly pPO*! d, wooden pier. So tia-edisl4-Iht been in the &Wolin. 0,, ogfethseeirfsaving himself by swimming, in which art Its; was to be dexterous. Scott/MN. 1(1 handkerchief, to preveit the possilo bdyesatrtstieltkion, that his hands were firmly boll, ,1 CITY CONGER Tt......Yesterday aren;qg vocal and instruments entertainmex* was gives 4,,lief Albion Hall, Moorfieldt, in aid of tieiund for die of the Spanish and Lai* reftees in Obi country. iforj, Lord LlLFoßmarrived at his seat, Li,' t,/ near Oundle, on Monday leafs from the Lincoln Paper. 11111Pef,, Mr. MATHEW'S attracted a cinplete - b_;,slPon Monday last at the Town WI, to sei,eee his adri"..%ied with unfounded approbation..., (4eiftridlie P441..„r Be stillnotseAtrotnaNnoiinT e TH,CtoEnontli continue,. ee:.uT Horns Ti hoext-Vto. ,Dotal s e:pth le Ali ea; b The project of boring fort spripg_TinTiednesday night last was ssq feet. _Lis Pler4 ttl *be booksellers have lately been niaa, psi POsiti„mil :04rg th_,e ling the small unstamped play;„,_oards, knoWn "7.ziars'm trade as "toy-cards," and used. ob„iy by ehildreno." Paper. TS 4;4 MEETING OF , THE • INHA3I` 4,140/ICTII SOUTH L a3iaErH AND CLAPHAU r°ll ;figli4erOtig AGAINST Tnraves•—ln consequetwe of the fakeer oßee is daring robberies that for months past ball the these parishes, the inhabitants have re.solvedottencti-0-1; orfotlioei; selves into an Association for the better r o property. A Memorial to the Marquii of 'reaori .has been already resolved on, and a Treasurer and appointed. ' oilol/1' A letter of remonstrance, dated iNottillo and inserted in the Nottingham _Review), has be'tivotel dressed to Mr. CoanETT, 'on the impolicy of his tch"dad plan for paying workmen in goods. The lQtter that it is a plan serviceable only to the avaricious who (if he pleases) may pay his workmen, noel Wi OA OPENING or
The Sun. — 1827-11-08 (London, England)

MANN. MY LORD—While irresistible feelings of gratitittle are my only inducement for obtruding myself on your Lordship's recollection, I cannot do so, hut under the contr'ul of some apprehensions lest this I:berry should fall into other hands than those of the individual whom alone I wish entirely to understand its purport. Nor can even my conviction of his peculiar liberality, subdue my sense of the great distance in character, in ability, and station, from which an nnpreferred Clergyman of the Church of England addresses one of its Bishops. " I can only propose to myself, in this boldness, the satisfaction of doing a duty; the pleasure of which :rises from a consciousness of having given expression, however inadequate, to grateful feelings: Of relieving human nature in your Lordship's judgrecut from the odium of seeming inaccessible to the force of reason, and insensible to condescension. 31-y Lord, that poor Mr. Taylor, whose visit you so graciously received at Bishop's Court a little more than a year and a half agc, is solicitous to tell you that he feels unapeakaOy obliged that your reasonings on the most important of all subjects, though ilot at that time felt with their due weight, pranced an indelible impression, and have, by time, by subse/lona reflection, and the Divine Blessing, wrought xheme.elees into the most entire and comfortable conviction, and become, I trust, the last complexion and eharacterof my mind. But more especially am I bound to bless both God and you, that in the last conversation with .which you honoured me at Douglas, your mild remonstrances reclaimed me from the fatal sway of a melancholy mind; that to your Lordship i.lawe that I did not leave the Isle of Mann in the ;horrible character of an. avowed advocate and defender of suicide; but itr the same public print in which the effusion of my melancholy had appeared, under the s:gnature of " ACASTO," I, within a weeis or a fortnight, recorded my strongest protest apinst it. I hub, I hope in Clod, that my follies have not produced an effect bey` lad what recantation and repentance may retrieve. S. hope is a source of cheerfulness and serenity for which I am bound, again and again, to thank your Lordship's most eftietual reproof. I perceive, indeed, what you so kindly endeavoured to impress upon me, that even in bur'reasenings we are wonderfully the creatures o 1 our phys:_nial constitutions. In my present ease Of circumstances,- awl kealth of body and mind, which has continued now a long white, I wonder how I mild have reasoned as I did, when I Will SO trOtible. !Owe to you 11 Accept, my Lord, this poor expression of my feelings, and condescend to believe him to whom you have been so truly a benefactor, to be, with the moat earnest and entire respect, " Your Lordship's obliged servant, "
The Sun. — 1827-08-06 (London, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On • Saturday a considerable sensation was created in Hatton-garden, by a report that Mr. Slade,• a highly respectable coach-builder, residing at the corner of Hatton-garden and Back-hill, had cut his throat in a most dreadful manner, and was expiring in his parlour. This report was soon confirmed ; and it wawa ascertained that be had been alone in the back parlour, but Mrs. Slade, hearing an unusual sound, ran into the room, and found her husband lying on the floor, weltering in his blood, and a razor in his right hand, which, in endeavouring to force froth him, severely lacerated her hand, and nearly severed one of her. fingers. The necessary applications were made, and, after considerable difficulty, the blood was staunched. ' At six o'clock it was stated that no hopes could be entertained of his recovery. • DETERMINED SUlODE.—SaturdAy. an inquisition was held at the Bald-faced Stag publichouse, ' orship-square, Finsbury, on the body of Mrs. Frances Gibbs, wife of Nlr. Gibbs, of Worship-square, silk-dyer. ft appeared that Mrs, Gibbs was a lady of about thirty-six years of age, and very much respected, but had latterly laboured Under a temporary aberration of mind ; and on Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, When the girl went to call her-to breakfast, she found she had left her bed-room, and on the girl endeavOuring to Open the dining-roorri door in looking for her, she found it secured inside ; she, however, forced it open, and, -shocking to relate, she saw her mistress with a crape over her face, suspended by a silk handkerchief front a hook in the ceiling to which a chandelier is hung, and over which she threw the knot of the handkerchief; after fastening it round her neck, standing, as she must have -been, on a chair, off which she threw herself.—Verdict,. Insanity.
The Sun. — 1812-10-28 (London, England)

SUICIDE.---Yesterday. _morn„ 'about • eight o'clock, an Arnekican, who had lodged sonic: week's at a house at Limehouse, made 2ivt'ar with himself, by shboting himself thmugb the head. His-landlady went to call him as usual to breakfast„after havirig been out for some rolls, and not answering, the door was opened, and the shocking Spectacle' pirkented itself. • Mi. ford, a professional .Gentleintn, attended imme-' diately, but of cote too latii to render any assistance.—The letter liras found open on the table :  I will briefly state what bath- leUto the' melancholy catastrophes babic you, arid: though' certain itis, that of the nndersigned, a histi -be the Peace in and. 'for the COunty of lierki, in the' Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, N'vho caMeto country to transact smile' family hnsiness;'and. finding, by the cursed act of those set-of fools,, James Madison, and the French 'democratic' faction in COngresS; that War had been 'declared s: against Great Britain,-therefore no ships likely' f • 4 4 to Leturn soon to America; I Was indhecd to truss: -6 a few hundred dollars I had'left to carey me loose,: and to provide. tut my SustenarreeYduring Inv to the care of a pretended friend', 'ir4o prOuli.,eil sell them to more adranta)ze thqn he has by ot)propriating tlAh to his own u t an-1 left (lestitutt! of ahnott a sin.gle say" ;"-161. it'.; drove '‘‘ ,Id, and Yset mV brainon'ti're. he -It ft in a‘i:,);•eiga cotintry Nyithr;tit 1110'ne'v": (00.11-11.1C1 I:01.),;L!F tt an:i 'too nitiefi pride to beg.- Cud, Cod, my God is to be •done Here me, nearly five thousand inile..from my filthily'? and home, and left 'pennyless by the-perfidy 'of ll' man , See no other alternative, a gaol, to starveo'.,, or commit the fatal and rash act;ibr which I itu• plore.the Almighty's 'parchin and forgiveneSs at' the„taunal of my Creator, shall lutve to answer for the act, and my manifold sins—Of there is and without sin, let bins throw the first stone)---of mankind will not ask a favour, neither k will I bend the knee, fully relying On the Mercies 01 goodne;.;s of my heavenly and beneficent Father, to whose protection I. beSeech he will be pleased to phi:cc my family and ten . children, remaining yet, (foul' is, I hope, in the presence of their creator), through the mediation of our blessed Lord Jesul; Christ, our onlpiediaor, liedeemer, and Saviour, So prays the unfortunate and miserable • ;(r g.013T
The Sun. — 1812-01-16 (London, England)

SHADWELE.  A-most important discovery has been made, within these two d.tvs, which completely temoves every Shadow of doubt respeCting the- guilt. of the late Suicide, Williams. It was proved (*fore the Magistiates of Shadwell Office, that three weeks before the murder of Mr. Williamson and his family, Williams had been seen to have a leing'French knife ivitn• an ivory handle, that knife could never be totatid.in Williams's trunk, or amongst anir of the 'Ploaths he left behind hint at the Pear-tree• public- • ouch, The subsequent search to find that deadly 'lnstrument, .has been crowned with. success. On Tuesday, Harrison, one of the lodgers at the, Fear Tree public,house,' in searching amongst Some'. old cloal'hes, foimd a blue jacket, which. he Immediately recognized' as- part of ,Williams's apparel. He proceeded to examine .it more closely, lid, upon looking at the inside pocket,. he found it quite stiff with coagulated blood, as .it a bloodstained hand had been thrust into it. He brought it down to-Mrs. Vermiloe, who irrmediately sent for iupe, and another of the Shadwell Police officers, to make turther.ses.rch in the house. Every apartment then underwent . the most rigid •examination, and after a search olabout and hour and a halt, the office's came at last to a small closet, the one in Which they discovered the &tied of- their pursuit. In one corner of it there was a heap of dirty stockings and other cloaths, which being removed, they 014,erved a bit.of • wood protruding from aniouse-hole in (he wall, which theyitninetfiately.dre.w outf and at the same instant they .discovered the handle 01 a clasp knife, apparently dyed with blood, which tlpbn being brought forth, proved to be the identical.. Prench knife seen in Willirins's possession before the murders. The handle and blade of it were suleared all over with blood. This important hi et completes the chain of s!rong Circumstantial evidence already adduced against the suicLie,
The Sun. — 1812-09-25 (London, England)

BLOOMFIELD. '  Mr. LUSHITON and Mr. BAKER unite their interests for Canterbury. Sri JAmrs MACKINTOSH is to stand for the County of Nairn.  Sir GILEERT ITEATIICOTE stands for Rutland.  shire  Sir THOMAS GRAHAM oa'ers for Perthshire. .11r. BARCLAY,. of Uric, is a candidate for Kincairdine  fir FRANCIS BURDETT it is said is to be oppOsed'at ZVe•itriin.er by one of his quondam friends. Mr. SKENE has been invited to stand foi AberCleenshire.  Mr. MARRYAT has been urged to offer himself for the City of London. '  It is not expected that Sir CHARLEs BAISIFYLDE will stand again for Westminster. Thei•e are .many reports of intended contests-for aeveral places, but as they seem -to be devised for party purposes, we shall forbear to notice them.  Wednesday, at quartet before three o'clock, the Devonshire, a fine 74-gun ship, was launched from a private yard at Dentford, near the Church, amidst a vast concourse of spectators., Robbery and Suicide.- -Messrs. Wilkinsons; upholders, on Ludgate-hill, having of late been, frequently robbed of feathers, suspicion at last attached to a porter in their employ, and a plan was laid'for his detection ; it succeeded, and he was detected on Wednesday evening; when leaving work, with large parcel ,Of feathers in his posseSsion : , he was detained, and a constable sent for, and on being questioned, he confessed that he had taken feathers frequently before, and sold' them to a broker, residing on the SUrrey side of 331ackfriars-bridge. In order ,to detect the receiver, it was agreed that lie should go as usual, accompanied by the officer, with the feathers ; and %Hien they arrived at the centre of Illackfriarsbridge, he said the broker was -in the habit of meeting, him in the recess; and taking his bundle; it Was therefore agreectthat be should stop.there on the present occasion, and that the officer should wait mar at band to detect the broker  when he came ; they had not been long in waiting, when the officer was surprised by observing the bundle of feathers fly. rover the top of the bridr ;,and running forward to inquire the cause, lie Nv.,s instil time to see, but not to prevent, the pri3ouer thrawing hiniself over also. The body sums i•urtitAiittely, and though instant search was tlie.de for it, has not yet been found:
The Sun. — 1812-11-13 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREE r.—Yesterday, ThanuisNorman„• Edward Roame, Stephen Keble, and -- Richardson,. were brought up for further examin,ation, on the charge of committing various nets of robbery and burglary.. Norman (applehended on Baling Common, by Bishop and the two Arnistrongs),- who had been previously-committed as a receiver of the silk. &u. stolen from the Sisters hoy, was now brought up as being concerned with the others in breaking into and robbing the linen-warehouse of Mr. Johnson, at Watford, on the third of September, 1811. Richardson was apprehended two days ago, by the sanie'officers, in Tottenham-courtroad, when they found upon his person 25/. in Bank notes—He was identified as-being concerned with Norman, and as having broke out of prison at Manchester. Kehle, apprehended same time ago tit a publichouse in \Vhitechapel, undergo further exa-. mination, on the charge' of robbing the dwellinghouse Odder, Esq. at Uxbridge, to the amount of VOL,  Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morning a the broke out at; the house of a timuaa in the New Cut, Lambeth Mardi, which was en:tirely destroyed - •  Attempted Suicide.—Tuesday morning as a • young man was amusing himself with his gun in the fields about Wormwood:Scrubs, his attention was arrested,by .an elderly wf,rnan without cap or bonnet, who was pulling off her gown by the canal side, and who soon afterwards plunged into the water. The young man hlstened to the spot, and rescued her, after she had been a.bout.tbree minutes in the water. The- unfortunate womaiiwas taken to a neighbciuring cottage, and With much care Was recovered. She proved to have been the keeper of a seminary, but was much, reduced;  SMITIIFIELD4IARKE'f, Nov. is.  This day's Market had but a scanty.supply of the different kinds of cattle : Veal and Pork are cheaper; Beef is dearer; Mutton supports last price; .and the trade for the most part was not very g00d.,-.—The Sales in the Hay Market were not. lively : Hay fetched last price ; Straw and Clover have fallen in price.—The undermentioned prices and numbers arc a .correct statement : To sink the per Stone of sib. _ . _ _  Beef, as. Od. to ss. O. Mutton, 4s. 44. to ss. 4d. Veal, ss. Od. toGs.Od. Os. to Os. Od. Pork, 3s. 4d. to 6,. Beasts, 720. Sheep, 5,290. Calves, 110. Pitrs, 250. sMITIIFIELD -
The Sun. — 1812-09-03 (London, England)

RYDEF...—Aire were much . surprised to sec one of the most illiberal attacks upon this Gentleman, in a Morning Paper recently, that has ever disgraced the public press. It was part of a letter written for the avowed purpose, of preventing any such treatment of the remains of those who commit suicide as might increase the misery of surviying relatiOns Mr. RYDER is so respectable a character, independently of official duties, which he has always discharged with integrity and zeal, .that, this gross and wanton attack is the' more extraordinary, particularly as it appeared in a letter written on the subject of humanity, and apparently from good feeling, as well as with great ability.  Bartholomew Fair.—The preparations for 'this, annual festival.appear to be on the usual extended scale. Richardson, Saunders, Cryngell, and Seowton, have raised their goigeous. Theatres on the. same space they occupied last year. Miles and Polito have brought a most formidable. body of savage animals into the field. There arc also elephants enough to equip a Nabob. 'The Fair was proclaimed last night by the rabble, Commonly denominated Lady Holland's Mob. This' day it will be proclaimed by the Lord Mayor, and display its proudest pageantry. Earl lINREWOOD, with a. benevolence hereditary in his family, is we understand, supplying the poor upon his estates with wheat at ten shillings per bushel.  No less than ,six French Officers, prisoners of war, have_ violated their parole of hononi during the last week ; 'four liaripg absconded• from Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, arid two from Selkirk? in Scotland.  So extremely cold was the night of Thursday last, that ice was seen at four o'clock the next morning, at Shaftesbury. A boat was on Tuesday overturned below Blackfriars-bridge, and a symnan \v ho' was a passenger in it %vas drowned, notwithstanding the-exertions of several watermen, who promptly rowed to her  assistance. Sunday night the dwelling-house of A. Bruce, Esq. army-agent, inParliameat-stiett, Westminster, was entered by gang of thieves,' who 'il•ot into the preinises the back way; by breaking open the stable doors, in Canno,n-row, through which there is a communication with the dwelling-house, and proceeded up stairs into the dining-room, where they packed up 1. quantity Of silver plate and other articles, to a great amount, with which they made- their escape 'unobserved,, although there are watchmen stationed near the prernises,
The Sun. — 1818-07-04 (London, England)

SUICIDE.-Yister(l3 131, about seven o'clock, a young w‘ornan,Yl.Bt"e;',"llo' teelly dressed, after walking a consideriblc 3ioe in a desponding manner near the 'e Itivtr in Hyde Park, threw herself it'' °:1101 young men who were bathing witoco'll' event, plunged in, and atter Some time 511"f'teif with her, •31receerltri in rescuing her front a grave. She gave her name as :` 4)1 1 411 j dingron, arid stated, that the came, of her 0 It t .01 attempt was the marriage of a young tua''', had formerly paid his addresses to her, to young t.vonian. She was then carried 11°1'4" is now tn a fair way of N covet y. Ile gltyr~lttr~ C--3 We are authorised to.state, tlor llimicAL lloArzo has been establislred a! lotte-I louse, Great i'harlotte-street, 01)1")5,itt-ociV: Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, and IN'o°lls is to street, adjoining New Bond-street, 01''ibee'l, 'l it Patien's hull! Sexes love -11 P restored to perfect health; marry of "*Is()°1,1 r.r° lingered for years under the must painful stinate diseases, were pronounced iticullii,irge, respectable practitioners, and several lib°fel !Cull.; front 110spi!als.—Such are the effectsrieEtc ,o(i front combined talents ! ! Co. of Medical and Slagical celebrity, a citoeil; isd01:11°; years experience in this metropolis, are daily at both !rouses until nitre at night, rs,laY' poor have advice gratis, on TiresdelY, and Sunday mornings, moil Tw'elve Or, e, 111,1 I'atiettts at a (11Staliet, describing Oleo' --:rirect:e let luediately attended to —All letters try, hilt itla to Charlotte-House, Illackfriars'-romi, istot are answered which do tall contaia c°l fee.  • - -• - -----;--------''''''- 11 lititTLlS: 1,3il 13'ti'c 01 the ii! II in P VAt , i ork•Ielle, the iqou• e teo C,; (4lngton, of a Ltt ivighter. ; A* 3f tl'' At the o‘e of her lalic tr, %cm. 11:11,1"M:" c0;10, Hill, in Kent, Lecilma, the wilt; It Nl:jor /7 --- li»gitteers,of2% situ aa. ti ,:cit. .----_____ i c•''' •f. '-' A witigtott-spa, `iv Titittio.: 11,2c1.14%,!',.4)1;,01.. 1).C..1111!"e5115:r, .711
The Sun. — 1818-10-22 (London, England)

FOR THE SUN.  THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.  Ma. EntToa,—l observe in your agreeable ;1 liicellauy Tire SUN, that you entertain tears for the safety of the Established Church, even as it they were for the ark of Israel; and that you offer it as a receptacle for the effusions of its Clergy. I admire your motive, which is loyal and patriotic, but do not accord with your appnbension of its danger. Built as it is upon a rock, abundant in. revenue, and extensive in patronage, pure in its hierarchy, and protected by the State, mild in its doctrine, and tolerant to all, rearing its mi:red. front beneath the Crown, I think that all the evil spirits in the infernal regions, with Papists and Protestant dissenters huddled together in an army Of martyrs cannot prevail against it. I know that its tolerance has occasioned all sorts of Sectaries, who have separated from it, to distract end terrify the ignorant, which is their delight. and draw them to their own enclosures. This may be attributed to its indulgence, but never can be a reproach to its liherality, though unhappily :be more it has shewn it to its enemies, the mote lutve they encteased, like vipers biting the bosom that cherishes them. But what is their obj ct ?-Power to do mischief! It is not religion ; for whether the people be Jews or Gentiles, Mattometans or Barbarians, is no concern with I' eat. h is what they call political liberty, meaning a liberty to do as they in their overweening supersnfliciency please, that they contend for, end iii the end to overturn the Government iu Chutels and State; then to set up a model of their own for the pretended salvation of each, or., in triter words, the total abolition of both. In this temper I compare them to venomous insec:s, who die by the emission of, their own poison ; and therefore the snore they are left to themselves, the weaker they will grow. According to the proverb, give them rope enough, and they will entangle themselves, become suicides, or, wanting courage, die of a lingering mortification, tinpi kit and forgotten. Wiry then sound an alarm that the Church is in danger ? I verily believe it is not, and that it is its own defence against the ll,vil and all his friends. It is certainly kind in you to offer your columns for the use of the national Clergy, but Ido not see what good it will do. It may provide you Correspondents from all the counties in the kingdom, to the exclusion of others, who, to fill up an idle hour otter dinner, or before they smoke their pipes, would embody their thoughts on paper, in support of their own Itinciions, and thence weary you with their multiplication. THE SUN WOuld then indeed be the Parson's Journal, to which I should have no objection ; if it contained an Essay front any of them, once in a month.  I am, your Friend, and a Friend to Tna SUN, which tt Laity of my acquaintance calls iiv Evening Pianfolilet,