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The Sun. — 1833-09-20 (London, England)

PROII ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. LISBON, SEPT. 3.—The Emperor has not been inactive; our fortifications begin close to the Tagus, at a place called Alto de S. Joao (heights of St. John) and finish at Alcantara, forming a semicircle of about eight miles. The forts which defend the line will be mounted by about 100 pieces of artillery of different calibres, and engineer officers of high reputation state that it will be impossible for Bourmont to force these lines with the elements he has got under his command. Our army also has been increased by several thousand victorious soldiers, who arrived in steamers and sailing vessels from Oporto, and are eager to meet that enemy again which they have so often triumphantly driven before them. Our Guarda Nacional are also exercising themselves, and if they show the patriotism and valour of which the inhabitants of Oporto have given them so noble an example, Don Miguel will never see Lisbon again but from afar.  The brave Admiral Viscount of Cape St. Vincent is also to me a sure pledge that it will be a hardfought battle, and that every chance of success is on our side; also the arrival of several deserters shows that there is a great disposition in some regiments to desert the standard of the usurper as soon as they find an opportunity.  With the Duke of Terceira, General Saldanha, General Valdez, and in fact all the superior officers, there exists such an emulation that every one wishes to be foremost in the brilliant field that is opening before Them.  DOES THE SCORPION COMMIT SUICIDE ? .—Lieutenant Hutton, 37th N. I. (India,) appears, from an account of some experiments given in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, to have set at rest the question respecting the scorpion's stinging itself to death when placed within a fiery circle. He siys—" Arguing one day on this subject, and not being able to convince my adversary, I procured two scorpions for the purpose of testing the truth of his statement, and found the result to be as I had anticipated. The poor animals, a ter twice or thrice running over the glowing charcoal, and being put back again, were in a minute or two completely roasted by the heat, and expired without making the least attempt to sting themselves. The animal when in pain lashes its tail about very quickly, which might possibly have given rise to the opinion that it was stinging itself. 1 consider it as next to impos,ible fir them to commit suicide, as, independent of the hardness of their covering, it is a known fact that the scorpion, when endeavouring to sting, strikes backwards with much force ; whereas in stinging itself it must push forward, which I think it unable to do ; but, even if it could, I should question its ability to pierce the armour with which nature has clothed it."
The Sun. — 1833-02-25 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  LOVE AND SUICIDE.---011 Saturday last an inquest was held at the residence of Mr. Daniel Cooke, No. 63, in the Quadrant. The deceased, who was about 35, and a furrier in a large way of business, lately experienced a cool reception from a young lady at Ashford, Kent, to whom he paid his addiesses. Being convinced that a fortunate rival had supplanted him, he returned to town in a very dejected mood. A day or two after he observed to a married friend of his, '• See how happy you are, with your little cherubs climbing your knees, and all emulous to please you ; but, alas ! this can never be my envied lot; I am doomed to wretchedness for ever !" While he said this he shed tears in abundance, and appeared completely heartbroken ; h s friend endeavoured, but in vain, to rouse him from his gloomy reverie. He continued in this state until Wednesday night, when he retired to rest early, and on the following morning the servant discovered him suspended by a cord to the bed-post, and quite dead. Verdict— Insanity. CFJILD AIUItDEII.-On Saturday evening last, an inquest was held at the H• ro of Waterloo, Lambeth, o❑ the body of a fine male infant, which was found in the Thames, on the previous day, by a Waterman, with a piece of lead tied round its neck, and the hands and feet tie.l togeti,er with strong thread. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the infant was about a month old, and had not been in the water more titan three or tour hours. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person unknown, and the parish intend to offer a reward for the detection of the party. On Thursday an Inquest was held before Mr. Baker, Coroner, at the Lord Nelson public-house, Nelson-street, City-road, on the body of Nicholas Byres, or Biers, aged 35 years, who was suspected to have been poisoned by some friends of Coney, the convict, now lying uuder sentence of death in Newgate for committing the extensive burglary in Bartlett's-buildings. Verdict, " Natural Death." A Coroner's Inquest was yesterday held in the gaol of Newgate, before Mr. Payne and a hi_hiy-respectable jury, touching the dealt of Henry Channels, aged 35, a prisoner under sentence of death for the wilful murder of the captain of a vessel on the high seas.—Veldict, " Died by the visitation of God."  Yesterday an inquest was held at the Goat and Compasses, in the New Road, on the body of Airs. Sarah Draper, aged 87, companion to Dowager Lady Dillon, of 4, Fitzroy-square. Colonel Dillon deposed that the deceased was sitting in a chair after dinner, at the end of which she had taken a glass of wine, when she suddenly utte' ed a piercing shriek ; witness asked if she had swallowed a bone ? She replied, with great difficulty, " No," and then fell back in her chair and expired. Air. Tusou, surgeon, was of opinion that she had died of an ossification of the heart.--Verdict, " Died by the visitation of God."
The Sun. — 1833-11-18 (London, England)

SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.About eight o'clock on Saturday morning a young woman of very interesting appearance, between 22 and 23 years of age, named Ann Matilda Martin, was brought into St. George's Hospital, in a state of extreme agony, having swallowed a dose of oxalic acid. She was directly placed in " Burton's Ward," and attended by Mr. Hicks, but such was her determination to destroy herself, that although suffering extreme torture, ebe resisted every endeavour to save her life, and it was at last necessary to place her under restraint, by strapping her down to a bed. By means of the stomach-pump the poison was extracted, and she eventually recovered, but remains in a state of great exhaustion. It appears from her statement that her parents were respectable, and that she had lived in service in several families of distinction, and had borne an unexceptionably good character. About nine months ago she left her situation to attend upon her only surviving parent, her mother, who was labouring under severe illness, and continued with her up to the pepiod of her death, which occurred in about two months afterwards. She bad in the interim, however, the misfortune to form an acquaint.. sure with a young man of loose character; but of this fact she was not then aware. He succeeded in gaining her affections, and, after accomplishing her ruin,:prevailed upon her to live with him. They bad resided together since then in Union•court, New-road, Sloane-street, Chelsea,  where she has endured the most brutal treatment from  her seducer, having been left for days without the common necessaries of lifc , and frequently beaten in such aninhuman manner that she has been left lying insensible on the floor, weltering in her blood. The disgrace she had brought upon her family prevented her from applying to any of her relatives, and she bad silently borne this state of excessive misery until her sufferings bad wrought up her feelings to a state of frenzied distraction, and induced her to form the resolution of ending her existence by suicide. The young woman is still covered with the marks of the ill-treatment she has received.—Dispettch.
The Sun. — 1833-07-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN A POLICE GUARD-HOUSE.  On Saturday an inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle public-house, King's-road, St. Pancras, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas King, a cheesemonger and grocer, of Suffolk-street West, Somers Town. Thomas Robinson, a policeman, about one o'clock on Wednesday morning, was called upon by Mr. HumpherYt the landlord of the Union public-house, in Essex-street, to take the deceased into custody for being drunk, creating a riot and disturbance in his house, and breaking a pane of glass. Witness consequently took the deceased to the station-house in Phoenix-street, Somers Town. Juror—Did the deceased say anything on his way to the station-house? Witness—Yes; he expressed a great desire to go home to see his wife. Juror—And pray, would it have been out of your way to have granted that small favour ? Witness—A little. Wall, another policeman, was on duty at the stationhouse when the deceased was brought in, and visited him five times in the cell, at intervals of an hour. At the last visit the deceased asked for a handkerchief, as his nose was bleeding slightly, and the request was complied with. He irnmediltely burst into a flood of tears, and appeared in the extreme of mental agony. William Tefrant, a shoemaker, was confined in the same cell as the deceased, who slept from the time he was put into the cell until nearly six o'clock, when he conducted himself like a madman, by throwing himself on his belly upon the ground and crying most piteously, and saying he could not bear to go home alive to his wife on account of his conduct. Witness remonstrated with him upon his folly, and fell asleep. About a quarter before seven o'clock, a police sergeant, on entering the cell, exclaimed—" Oh, my God, the man has hanged myself," which awoke witness, when he saw the deceased suspended to a bar in the cel'. The deceased must have been very determined in his object, as he could have rested his feet upon a form if he had chosen. While the surgeon was attempting to restore his patient, the wife of the de, ceased made her appearance at the station-house with her husband's breakfast, when, to her horror, the sad tidings were broken to her. Several other witnesses were examined in corroboration of the foregoing evidence, among which was Evans, an inspector, who introduced his testimony with the following beautiful military phrase :—" After I had been patrolling my detachment! !" Mr. Hartley, I, t the" conclusion of the inspector's evidence, inquired of him how many men he had in his " detichment ?" when he replied 37, but some detachments had more. a mMo rr.ew Hams uri tstlpayroyon bd seaedpr pvt eoe ad r,ba thatyri esee vn eot rhwa el tohpfaotnl the c eee s v jeury,rsyt which m assumed sentiment Verdict—" Temporary Insanity, produced by memo/. drinking."
The Sun. — 1833-11-11 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED HORRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. —On Wednesday morning last, about three o'clock, A.sr., an unfortunate man (of very violent disposition when he took drink) named a.rmody, a grocer and publican in the Irishtow❑ (in this city) had, it teems, some dispute with his wife respecting drink which he wanted, but being opposed in his wishes, got suddenly out of bed, and seizing a razor, horrible to relate ! rushed at her (she was large in the family way), and cut her in the back nearly across ! The gash, we have bean told, way three inches deep at either side. As she turned in agony and horror-stricken, the wretched man gave her two ether cuts, and then ran out of the room with scarcely any clothes on him except his shirt and neckkerchief, with both of which—by tying them together—the unfortunate being succeeded in hanging himself in a neighbouring yard. The poor woman has been since delivered, and is still living.—Kilkenny Journal.  At twelve o'clock on Saturday morning Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, and a respectable jury, met the cEßoauarsclserlar.n square.t o Vincent ivr. ii L pt ualps :pile:, a. house, in Torrington-square, to inquire touching the death ts fromf Anntof Montague h ePeevl evidence aelmno e, atgh wifeuaet n place, t t theh he red barrister, time of the melancholy catastrophe the deceased was residing with her husband in the Mews, at the back of Mr. L tw's house. On Thursday morning she had been washing, and between twelve and one o'clock, while in the act of throwing some suds from the left entrance, the gate against which else leaned gave way, and she pitched on her bead on the pavement underneath. Mr. Pelham, who was engaged in the stable, hearing the smash, tan to ascertain what occurred, when he was horror struck at beholding his wife weltering in her blood. He stooped to raise her, but perceiving her skull battered in, he fell insensible by her side. A medical man, who was immediately on the spot, pronounced the dead. His attention was t•len poor woman to he quite turned to the husband, whom he shortly recovered from the swoon; but such is the effect which the drea accident has made upon him, that it is feared h.! will lose his intellect. A verdict of "Aeeideutal IX.ttit" tv-ti returned.
The Sun. — 1868-10-06 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH STREET.  SAD CASE—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—EIiza Riddell, a poor, dejected-looking female, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide  by taking poison.  Police-constable George Boyce, 85 F, said that he was called to the Charing-cross Hospital last night to take the prisoner into custody for attempting to take her life, when she said that she was very sorry, that she had been parted from her husband for two years, and that he had taken two of her children from her.  Mr. Francis B. Besley, surgeon, of No. 16, St. Martin's-court, said that yesterday evening the prisoner was brought to him by her husband, who said that she had taken laudanum. He gave the prisoner, who was very excited, an emetic, and as she became very drowsy, and her husband declined to take charge of her, he (Mr. Bosley) took her to the Charing-cross Hospital, and left her in the charge of the house surgeon. From inquiries he subsequently made he ascertained that the prisoner had purchased a pennyworth of laudnaum at a chemist's in the neighbourhood, but that was not sufficient to destroy life. He believed the prisoner had been greatly upset, and that a divorce case or something of the kind was going on between her and her husband.  The prisoner said she went to her husband to ask for some money to get some clothes, so that she might get a situation, and he refused to gire her any, and he had got two of her children away from her.  Mr. Tyrwhitt said the best thing he could do would be to send the poor woman where she could be well attended to for a week, and by that time they would know more about her, and whether anything could be done for her. _ _  The prisoner asked what was to become of her baby. It was in Judd-street. If his worship would send for it elle would be so much obliged to him.  Mr. Tyrwhitt said the child should ,be sent for for the prisoner, and remarked that the present case showed how often it was that medical gentlemen were the only friends people had.
The Sun. — 1868-02-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A STOCKBROKER.  An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. Alfred Arrivabene, a City stockbroker, who committed suicide in Quarry Wood, near Great Marlow, by shooting himself with a six-chamber revolver. The inquiry took place at the Bull Inn, Bisham, before the deputy-coroner, Mr. W. Weedon. Ernest Lelile, of 35, York-street, Portman'. square, London, said the deceased lived at the same house with him. He had known him for about six years. Witness went to school with him in Paris. Mr. Arrivabene was a stockbroker, and had offices in Copthall-court. He thought he was doing very well, and did not know to the contrary until after he left London. Witness received a letter on Monday morning stating that the deceased was in debt, and was a ruined man from speculation, and that he could not bear up against it. He asked pardon in his letter for the sorrow and grief he caused to his parents. He said, "It is useless to tell you why I kill myself. My conduct has been unworthy, infamous ; it kills me." His last wish was how to dispose of some trifles. The letter was very long, written in French. He had written to his principal creditor, Mr. Bierdeman, who sent a telegram advising him to do nothing desperate, as all might be arranged. In answer to Mr. Powell, the foreman of the jury, v. itness said he knew nothing of deceased's circumstances before, and did not know that he was in difficulties. He left his lodgings about three o'clock on the Saturday. The servant sat up late for him, but he did not return. He complained of headache on the evening previous, and went to bed soon after six o'clock. He ap. pearcd very dull. Henry, flessey, of Cookham Dean, grocer, said on Monday he was going down to Marlow Point fishing, expecting to meet some friends, when at the top of the wood he heard the report of firearms. When he got to the bottom of the wood he saw the deceased lying on his back, and the six-chamber revolver produced on his chest, the case being between his legs, He was quite dead, but warm. One chamber of the revolver was discharged, the other five were loaded. The revolver and box were quite new, made by G. H. Daw, of 57, Threadneedle-street. There was a letter in his possessiOn, which stated his intention to commit suicide, and asking that a tomb might be provided, where anybody who pitied him might go and pray for him. G. Sargent, one of the waiters at the Orkney Arms Hotel, Maidenhead-bridge, stated that the deceased slept at the hotel on Saturday night, the Bth inst. He had a small parcel wrapped up in paper, similar in size to the pistol-box. Deceased had eight sheets of paper, and wrote several letters before he left on the Sunday morning. The deceased was last seen at Cookham on Sunday, the 9th inst., when he left a letter to be posted to the first witness, and which was produced. The verdict of the jury was " Suicide by a, pistol-shot from his own hand during a fit of temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1868-02-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A STOCKBROKER.  An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. Alfred Arrivabene, a City stockbroker, who committed suicide in Quarry Wood, near Great Marlow, by shooting himself with a six-chamber revolver. The inquiry took place at the Bull Inn, Bisham, before the deputy-coroner, Mr. W. Weedon. Ernest Lelile, of 35, York-street, Portman. square, London, said the deceased lived at the same house with him. He had known him for about six years. Witness went to school with him in Paris. Mr. Arrivabene was a stockbroker, and had offices in Copthall-court. He thought he was doing very well, and did not know to the contrary until after he left London. Witness received a letter on Monday morning stating that the deceased was in debt, and was a ruined man from speculation, and that he could not bear up against it. He asked pardon in his letter for the sorrow and grief he caused to his parents. He said, "It is useless to tell you why I kill myself. My conduct has been unworthy, infamous ; it kills me." His last wish was how to dispose of some trifles. The letter was very long, written in French. He had written to his principal creditor, Mr. Bierdeman, who sent a telegram advising him to do nothing desperate, as all might be arranged. In answer to Mr. Powell, the foreman of the jury, witness said he knew nothing of deceased's circumstances before, and did not know that lie was in difficulties. He left his lodgings about three o'clock on the Saturday. The servant sat up late for him, but he did not return. He complained of headache on the evening previous, and went to bed soon after six o'clock. He appeared very dull. Henry Hessey, of Cookham Dean, grocer, ;said on Monday be was going down to Marlow Point fishing, expecting to meet some friends, when at the top of the wood he heard the report of firearms. When he got to the bottom of the wood he saw the deceased lying on his back, and the six-chamber revolver produced on his chest, the case being between his legs, He was quite dead, but warm. One chamber of the revolver was discharged, the other five were loaded. The revolver and box were quite new, made by G. IL Paw, of 57, Threadneedle-street. There was a letter in his possession, which stated his intention to commit suicide, and asking that a tomb might be provided, where anybody who pitied him might go and pray for him. G. Sargent, one of the waiters at the Orkney Arms Hotel, Maidenhead-bridge, stated that the deceased slept at the hotel on Saturday night, the Bth inst. He had a small parcel wrapped up in paper, similar in size to the pistol-box. Deceased had eight sheets of paper, and wrote several letters before he left on the Sunday morning. The deceased was last seen at Cookham on Sunday, the 9th inst., when he left a letter to be posted to the first witness, and which was produced. The verdict of the jury was " Suicide by a pistol-shot from his own hand during a fit of temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1868-06-26 (London, England)

OOO. The defendant knew that he was deeply embarrass Al, and accepted some bills for him. Either in the spring or summer of that year he gave the witness the general authority, as he alleged, during an interview in his garden. The defendant had previously stated that he would go security for £3,000, and when he gave the authority witness understood that it was limited to £3,000 ; but no amount was mentioned. A number of letters were put into the witness's hands, and among them one with the date written upon it, 15th of August, 1865. He swore that the " 15th of August " was in his handwriting, but warmly insisted that the " 1865 " bad been put to it since the last trial, and he protested against being held responsible for the figures. When writing the defendant's name on bills the witness imitated his handwriting as closely as possible. He wrote one of the two bills now sued on in Charles Bagot's presence. He simulated the defendant's handwriting. If the words " per pro " were on the Lills that would have given notice to the world. Before he went to London he wrote to a hiend to take lodgings for him for a month. During the bedroom scene between Mrs. Hinds and her son, in which she insisted that he should disown the bills, the witness listened at the door, and looked through the keyhole. He afterwards made a memorandum of the transaction, and showed it to the defendant and others. He did not say at the last trial that he had made memoranda. Ile was not asked the question then. He had written Hinds's name for about £1,600 on bills, and the defendant's name up to £2,578 before be went away. In February, 1866, he had a pistol, which he had purchased two years before, and said he felt inclined to commit suicide in consequence of an offensive letter which he had received from Charles Bagot about money. One of the bills he had put Hinds's name on (Granly's) was coming due ou the Saturday before he left the country. He wrote the name " Henry Hinds" on that bill, but the words " New Grove, Granard," were not in his handwriting, and were not on it when he passed it to Harris. He wrote the name of James Blake, his nephew, on bills for £