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The Sun. — 1818-01-23 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.-Yesterday a young man was observed walking about in a • melancholy mood near the basin in 'Hyde Park, and in a moment he sprung over the railings into the water. The persons who saw him immediately procured a drag and got him out, and carried him in an insensible state to St. George's Hospital. He was there recognized to be a young man of a respectable family, trained Bruce, aid had been reduced in circumstances. He came to London, but could not find employ ; and having spent all his money, he formed a resolution of putting an end to his existence.— A few weeks ago he cut his throat in a most dreadful manner at his lodgings, and was taken to St. George's Hospital : by the attention of the medical gentlemen he was soon out of danger. His situation being known-, and to prevent him repeating the act, a subscription was entered into, amounting to near 401. and he was allowed ten shillings per week. Yesterday morning he received ten shillings, left the Hospital, and went to a public-house and got intoxicated, and from thence into the Park, and again attempte,d to dectroy himself. The Surgeons used the means recommended by the Royal Humane Society, and he is now out of danger, but is very morose, and refuses all consolation.  On Saturday last James Fontaine was apprehended upon the charge of having on that day, at Haverfordwest Market, uttered forged Bank of England notes for one pound each, if: payment for some pigs he had parchased at the Market ; and on Monday Stephen Williams was also-apprehended, near Carmarthen, under a similar charge, he having been purchasing some cattle at Narbeth Market on Saturday last, for which he paid in notes of the same description. Two women have also been. taken up early on Tuesday morning under similar charges. Fontaine and Williams have undergone very close examinations before the Justices, and from vt hat has transpired, it is hoped that it will lead, to a clue for the detection of the heads of these offenders. They represent the notes to have been obtained at Birmingham. They ate both fully committed to the Coultty Gaol, Haverfordwest, for trial at the next Assizes.
The Sun. — 1818-11-27 (London, England)

IBRAHIM DACHA. This news was contained in a dispatch addressed to OsMAN PACHA, one of the Viceroy's Generals, residing at Florence.  EXTRAORDINARY SurclDE.—Yesterday morning Mr. Turner, who leaped out of his chamber wiudow on Tuesday, in WeEs-street, Oxford-street, having previously cut !;is throat, died in the Middlesex Hospital Mr. T. bad been very unwell for some time, and for several days ptior to his commission of the horrid act, lie was evidently deranged in his mind. The razor with which the unfortunate man cut his throat could nowhere be found ; and a deep cut which was on the side of the deceased was supposed to be inflicted by Iris frilling on some iron railing when Ire threw himself trom the window. Such, however, were mistaken conclusions, for since his death the Medical Gentlemen at the Hor,pital, on Opening the body of the deceased, found the razor with which he cut his throat, in his inside, lying very near his heart. It appears that after lie cut his throat, he cut a deep wound in his side, and having opened the razor, he thrust it into tire aperture, which closed up, and when he was taken to the Hospital, tire wound was sewed up by the surgeon, not supposing that any thing was in the inside, Au inquisition will be held this day.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —Yesterrlay a young man, named Joseph Nicholson, servant to an Officer in the Life Guards, cut his throat in a horrid manner with a razor. He had been drinking, and returned home to his wife a little intoxicated; he began to tax her with some impropriety, which he alleged she bad committed. She repelled the charge, and told him !hat be never was out of temper unless be had been drinking, and that it was a shocking thing h! did not avoid it. He replied—" It is shocking, is it ? You shall see something more shocking I. ell, soon ;" and ran up stairs into a chamber. In a few miuntes after, his ►rife heard a great noise, like somebody falling she went up stairs, and salt• the deceased covered With blood, with Iris head nearly severed, and the instrument Iving by his side. He has several children. lie was carried in a hopeless sate to St. George's Hospital.  I' 0 IL T It Y.
The Sun. — 1818-07-09 (London, England)

CORONER ' INQUESTS.  MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  Yesterday an. inquest was held At the si tt of the Yarmouth Town House, Old Gt,',el-lane, before J. W. ITNwirt, Esq. on the body of Mrs. Frances Jot kcay, an inievesting young lady, aged 26, who hung hersdt under the following circumstances :  Mr. Robert Maxwell sworn, said, that the deceased was related to him, and tan Monday she called at witness's house, and told him siie would remain there, as she wanted to see iier husband, who promised to meet her there ; she requested permission to lay down, for which purpose she %tent op stairs to a bed-room where she remained about an hour "toil a halt ; on the servant going op stairs to call her, she was alarmed at finding the dour fastened anti the key in the inside. She made all immediate alarm, and witness proceeded op stairs, and putting his shoulders against rite door, broke it open, when, to his surprise, lie found the deceased sitqended by a silk tiandker- • chief, one end of which was fastened to a 1)411 111 the middle ot the ceiling, and the other round her net k ; her feet were six in. lies from the floor ; he. instantly cot her down, and laid her on the floor, she whs quite death ; rite deceased was the wife of Joekcay, Captain of tie Vent's, a li dtic under. Witness fur the last eight months observed in the deceased's manner a great altetation she was io a very melisucholy mood when she called at his house previous to her 'committing the rash act ; at intervals she w (mid be gull. y it various desp.odoig ,tots. .  The returned a verdict of—" hung herself- state ')t Insanirv.—  imlt'EsT ON A
The Sun. — 1818-03-05 (London, England)

SUICIDE.,--Yesterday morning, a man named ll'otvell, foreman to a respectable painter, put a period to his existence by banging himself in a room in his master's house at Kennington. He Was between 40 and 50 years of age, and has left a wife and six children to lament the sad catastrophe. No cause has been assigned for the dieadfillact, except that he had been in a state of intoxication for several days previous.  I;lessrs. COOPHR and Co. of Medical and Sur. Rical celthrity, after forty years experience in this lietropolis, are consul►ed daily at both houses until nine at night, and the poot have advice, gratis, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Mornings, until twelve o'clock.  Patients at a distance, describing their case, Immediately attended to.—All letters to be directed Charlotte House, Blackfriars-road, but none are answered which do FlOi contain a consultlug fee:  We are authorized to state, that since the Me-11%1 Board has been established at Charlotteouse, Great Chnlotte-street, opposite the Rev Rowland Hill's Chapel, and Woodstock-street, adjoining New Bowl-street, upwards ,•f Thirty Thousand Patients of both sexes have bren rernred to perfect health, many of whom had 2ittgered for years under the most pititorl and obstinate diseases, were pronoun-ed incurahle by respectable practitioners, and several dischatged from Hospitals—Such is the effects resulting from tombined talents !  Yesterday Morning, at Eleven o'Clock, the Lottery began, immediately litter which; No. 6,963 /749 drawn. and hc,ing the first•drawn Blank was entitled to Four Pipes of Port Wine :—The Ticic.tt Itits shared by T. filsH, in Two Quarters, Two 4ightbs, and Four Sixteenths.—ln the course of the day the following Capital Prizes were drawn, the whole of which were also sold and shared by T. Bisti, No 8,107, a Prize of L. 5,000 21,771 3,817 5OO 9,00 3lO 14,070 soa 11,605 2,863 4lO When this paragraph went to Press, neither of the 30,0001. Prizes had made their appearance ; hot BlSii hopes he shall have. the gratification (as usual) of stating that they were divided amongst his Friends. The Second Day of Drawing is the 14... Instant.
The Sun. — 1840-07-04 (London, England)

HEF-D (EUVRE OF SUICIDE.—Lord Dougl.s Sir C. E.-Warwick . ePriraiied 11 ti wu Douro, serleallt,q\uVis.--'Nre°wrwkeicsbhury Prother,e, Ed ward-Ilalifax Scarborough exhibited the same nonchalance in the act of Drunueond, 11. 11.-I'erthstiire Posey, Philip-Berkshire killirg himself as he did when he resigned his situation as Duffield, I homes- Abingdon Ilse, Right tion..Sir Win.-Bute Master of the Horse. He was reproached in the House of Dunbar, George-Belfast Rein, „Sit r. ltae-Dover Duncombe, Hon A -Ea.t.P.etfcre Richards, Itichard-Merionethsh. Peers with taking the King's part because he had a place at Dungannon, Lord -D.Dhain ILckford, W.-Aylesbury Court. "My Lords," said he, "to prove to you that my opinion Da Pie, George-B. ck Round, Charles Gray-Essex N. is independent of my place, I resign it this moment." lie afE at, James huller- Winchester Round, John- Makion terwards found kimself in a perplexing dilemma between a misEtstnor, Viscount-Reigate [foothold, C. E.-Yarmouth E non, R. J.-Cambridgeshire 1 dushbrooke, Colonel-Sullblk tress whom he loved, but to whom he had promised nothing, Egerton, NV. 'Patton-Cheshire !Roshout, Geo. Bowlcs-Evesham and a woman he esteemed, and to whom he had promised marEgerton, Sir P.-Cheshire !Russell, Lord John-Stroud riage. Not having sufficient resolution to decide which to . ii Rutherford, Rt. Hon. A.-Leith Ellis, Jno.-Newry choose, he killed himself to escape the embarrassment. PerErie, Wm.-Oxford I Sanderson, Richard-Colchester tcourt, 1' G. 8.-Oxford Univ. iandon land— Liverpo,l haps the coolest attempt at self-destruction on record, the chefFaroh:an, P.11.-N. Leicestershire Scarlete, lion. J Y.-Guildford dceucre of a suicide, is one related by Fodere. An EnglishFeilden, W. J -Blackbnrn Scrope, Poulett-Stroud man advertised extensively that he would, on a certain day, put Fellowes, Edw.- Huntingdonsline Seymour, Lord -Totness himself to death in Covent-garden, for the benefit of his wife Filmer, Sir K-West Kent Sled' Richard Lalor-Ti , il'Pera" and family. Tickets of admission one guinea each.-Anatonly Fitzalan, Lord-Arundel thepi,ard, Thomas-Frone Fazroy, Hon. Henry-Lewes • Shirley, E. J.-Warwick.hire of Suicide. Fleming, John-Hampshire Sibtliorp, Colonel-Lincoln
The Sun. — 1840-01-06 (London, England)

HENRY WILLOCK, K. L. S., Chairman. JOHN STEWART, 'Esq.' M.P., Deputy Chairman. Colonel Sir R. Armstrong, C. B. William Kilburn, Esq. John Bagshaw, Esq. • • Charles Otway Mayne, Esq. Augustus Bosanquet, Esq. John Rogers, Jun., Esq. Charles Dashwood Bruce, Esq. Robert Saunders, Esq. Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. James Duncan Thomson, Esq. 1 Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. Capt. Samuel Thornton, R.N. Rates of Premium as moderate as are consistent with perfect security, an annual division of three-fourths of the Society's protitsamongsttheassured, and a prompt adjustment stall claims are among the advantages of this Society. The attention of Gentlemen connected with India is particularly requested to the regulations of this Society; as, on comparison with other offices, its rates will he found very advantageous, having been accurately calculated from extensive showing the true risk of life during residence in r retirement from any foreign service, exclusively in the possession of this Society. Policies taken out in England may be continued in India,. sr those taken out in India may be continued in England, en definite and equitable terms ; while pretniums and claims may be paid in either cou'ntry, at the entire option of the parties interested. Terms and full particulars may be obtained at the office, as above ; or of the Agents in India—Messrs. Bagshaw and Co., Leckie and Co., Bombay. Calcutta; Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge, and Co., Madras : Messrs. By order of the Board, DAVID JONES, Actuary. The Universal was established in the year 1834, since which . miuras en those at present in existence amount to period it has commanded such extensive support that already issued, and the annualre %bout 1,600 policies have been ..- .., .60,0001. P  Just published, price 2s. 6d., 4PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILL TI ES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va. rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure  By a Ai EM BEII of the ItO‘rAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not fit to live. "—Last's Records •f a Suicide.  Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; Templeman, 348, Regent-street; T. Hill, Medical Bookseller, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket, London ; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham; and all Booksellers in Town and Country.  " Neeet empta dolore voluptas."—Ho FOR the greatest ameliorations of civilized life, we are indebted to the modern division of attention and labour ;n the various pursuits of society, and in none have its benefits been so manifest as in the healing art. Early convinced of this great truth,
The Sun. — 1840-06-11 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN  THE PUBLIC STREET.  MANCHESTER, JUNE 9.—A most extraordinary case of determined suicide took place in Bridge-street, one of the most public streets of this town, about nine o'clock on Sunday morning last. The unhappy victim is a young man, named George Vickers, who had been employed for the last few weeks as Loots, at Menders hotel, in Dridge-street. Mr. Mendel had that morning sent him on an errand, and shortly after he was met in Bridge-street by a man named Ellis, who observed that he had a razor in his right hand, and was trying it upon his hand, as if to ascertain its sharpness. Just before Ellis got up to him, he drew the razor across his throat, made two or three cuts, and immediately staggered and fell, the blood gushing out of his throat in a stream. Ile was taken up and conveyed to the hotel, the place where he had fallen being only a short distance from the door, but he was dead before medical assistance could be procured. It is iaiposssible to describe the sensation which this horrifying circumstance created ; crowds were collected round the spot where he had fallen, which was marked by a large pool of blood for some time afterwards. At the meeting which was held last night before Mr. Rutter, the Coroner, evidence was produecd which left no doubt on the minds of the Jury that the deceased had destroyed himself in a fit ofinsanity. Bridget Sullivan, cook at the hotel, stated that the deceased, who was a single man, about 24 years of age, was intoxicated on Saturday night, and in consequence of his irregularities had received notice to quit, but Mrs. Mendel had promised to give him another trial if he would refrain from liquor. Witness called him up about a quarter before eight on Sunday morning. Soon after Mr. Mendel sent him on an errand ; on his return he was sent to the Post-office, and witness saw no more of him till be was brought in dead. For the last 10 or 12 days his conduct has been very strange. On Saturday, the 30th ultimo, he said to witness," What a thing it is to be a boots !" She asked why he did not like it, and he replied, "4 am a very unhappy man." She told him that he had good wag-es, and plenty to cat, and wanted for nothing, and that many a one would be very glad indeed of his situation. He raised his hand to his throat, and said he would rather cut that then be a boots. The next day he used the same expressions, and on witness remonstrating with him, said " Pit finish it." On Monday ho. was tipsy ; on Tuesday he was very ill and lowskinated. On Wednesday he again threatened to cut his throat, and also said he did not care if he threw himself into the river. On Thursday he was in the same • vvay. On Friday he had to assist in putting down a
The Sun. — 1840-11-28 (London, England)

RAILWAY SHARES.  St. Germain' 630 .. 630 ... 630 630 ctsaillcs, R. 11 387 50 13b7 50 ...:,87 :JO 331 50 305 315 313 305 02 50 402 50 ... 492 50 439 50 ~iuihauscn to h a tin ... 131 ... 430 ... !4:30 , S r,.st,urg to Bale 247 ... '250 :.917 50 .. '250  ON S RN ThursdayNp afternoon AND DOVERthe RAt LWUY I I half. yearly meeting of the proplietors of this railway took OA TC- oEmAr AS NT —On place ot the ,London Tavern, T. W. Tyndale, El., in the chair. prom the report it appeared that the works of the railway were rapidly progressing, and that the proceeeings before Parliament relative to the subject of a station at: London-bridge have terminated in giving powers to the oPfanYto construct two additional the present line from Loh don, where the Croydon oiverges fbiGriunoiredmc'gee'o'tfwheirtcoahiGisßCrte:°ciritnb‘hiwc'eaiyteso'hsCu-Rlt°ahrranielway. An agreement was also entered into between. the. South- Eastern and the other two Companies for building a station covering the present Greenwich Railway station, with some other ground adjoining, and sufficient for the purposes of the SouthEastern, Brighton, and Croydon Companies, as a City terminus in the centre of London, to be built at the joint cost of the three Companies. An abatement of fifty per cent, on the additional toll claimed by the Greenwich Company for the use of their line had been effected. By the balance sheet it appeared that a sum of The resolutions having been passed unanimously, the 44,5841. .12i. 7d. was at the disposal of the Company. ceedings on Monday. meeting separated. We will give a full report of the pro Mr. Edward Swannich, a respectable corn-met; chant of Manchester, aged 65, committed suicide on Saturday morning last, by throwing himself into the sea by the Black Rock, opposite Liverpool. Pecuniary embarrass_ • ments are supposed to have been the cause of this rash act. near
The Sun. — 1840-07-22 (London, England)

GREEN, M.D., &c., Also, by the same Author, 'lvo., pricy 2s. 6d. sewed, OBSERVATIONS on HOT AIR, SULPHUR, and other FUMIGATING and VAPOUR BATHS, generally used on the Continent for tiie Cure of Obstinate Diseases ; with a Summary of Ninety-two important Authenticated Cases treated at the Establishment, No. 40, Great Ma lborough-street. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane.  Just published, price :2s. 6d: A. PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure iIyaMEM 13E11 of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmarr. " I am impotent, and no' tic to live,"—Last's Reco.rds of a Suicide.  Sold by Onv‘hyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Boss and Nightingale, Liverpool; and all Booksellers in Town and Ceuntr v.  N. 13. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free). upon addressin,treither of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal lBmo., ehlth, price 33. ; and sent in Town or Country 11th, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: -The CAUSES of its PREAIATUR E 'DECLINE, with Plain Oirettions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATIONS ittldressed to tho,e suffering from the destructive eftects of Exceithe Indulgence,. Solitary Habits, or Inlet ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT et SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLISiET, &c. Illustrated with Cases. &c.  By J. L. CURTH and II Y, Consulting. Surgtots, London. ?üblished by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 011ivicr, 59 Pftll S.range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Bi'ydges-street, Strand; Machen and Co., 8, 11'011ertslreet, Dublin ; Duncan 114, fligh-street, Ednburgh t ?Ilia to be had ofall Booksellers The Woik which i,, now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases cod aefeehoes, which fsr some unaccountable reasen have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indievenee, by the e: dinary pfactitiuner. To enter into the details of these aifecttuns, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrifi consequences, social, moral, and ploisicil, which are auto to follow from indulgence, its certain habits, would bo entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that7there is no member of society, by whom the bock will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRE'CEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1840-03-31 (London, England)

WAICLEY.--The Coroner for Aliddleatx, ek an inquest held last Friday on a young woman, who, having. driven a nail into the top of the door, behind which she placvai a noose of the cord, and by that means prevented it slLi vim off, hung herself, remarked, that though perhaps the eGMl.i.ue was not sufficient to warrant the jury returning a verdts gif temporary insanity, still he would not advise them to remrd clue of felo de se. Such verdicts, he thought, were of no mtitt htility, and did not tend to cheek the coinmisson of suiele. They tended rather to entail feelings of pain and shame au the families of parties against whom those verdicts were rani. Verdict--" Temporary Insanitry." DEXTEROUS SwiNDLE..-v-One day last week a young man from the country went into a bank in Glasgow to get small notes for a 5/. note, mg, having got four pounds in notes and one pound .in change, Ire had been observed by o sharpr in coining out, counting the money. When a little way from the bank the sharper tapped him on the shoulder, and sant lie had just come from the bank to mention that a mistake had been committed, in giving him wrong notes, and if he would come back with him he would get the right ones. TLe simpleton accompanied the swindler, and the noteswhenappr doaanchirxrt bank the latter requested him to give him fellow main outside,did.aikninodt 01 the ewboa nu go inand bank office, anda nd geti then af e right g secondsh t on e s . cunt i out, and told his dupe to go in the teller would now givc trim t proper notes. The reader must have anticipated the r,._ ui. GREAT a pedestrians 3es e tEeD ES.T R 1 N Pt rEdRa F Ou undertook for task of walking twenty miles in West, the celebrated aryalnzlinngutes—a feat twice before attempted, and for a further wager of Si., to pink yp t (the distance being 2,550 yards), In twhagreeerhoofurbs. ealstarted at twenty minutes to three, and the. past four had walked the first ten miles tbhuitrtwee-inthmouintuas ntuede: tredlel inp; with great perseverance, accomplishing the whole this period he appeared much fatigued, but continued his Aafi titteyigshttoeneensoa minutes: twe minutes. miles by two minutes to six, winning by rested for a quarter of an hour, and won the other bet.