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The Sun. — 1822-05-27 (London, England)

DIRECTORS.  John Marshall, F,sq. Sir Scrape B. Morland, Ear  John Alexander, Esq. William Bell, Esq. Francis Const, Esq. Sir John Doyle, Bart. K.B. William Dawson, Esq. Robert Downie, Esq. M.P. Robert Fleetwood, Esq. • William Judd, Esq. J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. F.A.S. Managing Director. DERSONS insured for Life in this Office A_ share the Profits Septennially-J{6th the. Original Members, according to their respective Contributions. Thus, by the specific sums insured, and Continzent Profits, they hare the fullest Value for their payments, in a manner nearly similar to that until latelyndopted in the Equitable Office, but with this presumed improvement, viz. that as the Original Members have raised a permanent -Fund, deemed amply sufficient for the purpose,of indemnity, it is provided, that no personal responsibility .shall attach to the Policy Holders. Hence those who seek protection are secured from uncertainty and risk of loss as in a Proprietary Office, having a large inheritable capital, and are entitled to a participation in the profits, as in a Union Society. - • • Military Men insured at this Office arc not charged with any additional premium unless called into actual service. Persons insured by this Office, not being Mariners hr the exercise of their profession, are at liberty to pass and reuss by sea, in whole (leched vessels; or steam-boati, from one part of the Lia;ted Kingdom to another, and also, in time of peace, in like manner, from British to Foreign Ports between the 'l'exel and Brest inclusive, without License and extra Premium.  M. P. Edward Nugent, Esq. William Prate, Esq. James Sedgewick, Esq Thomas Wyatt, Esq.  If any Person who has insured his life in this Office die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Justice, his Representatives may 'receive the full value which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of his death. No Admission Fees are required, nor is any charge made for POlicies, except the stamp duty. Bonusessof 131.85. and 261. l2s. percent. have been divided during the last fourteen years.  • •
The Sun. — 1822-09-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—The following letter, dated the 20th inst., has been received at the head Policeoffice, Dublin, from the Coroner. at Athboy :-" I send you the description of a man unknown, who shot himself in Athboy, about six o'clock, yesterday evening. He took a seat on the Athboy car on Wednesday, near the Cross Keys, County Meath, and told the driver be was in search of a mart who had forged a bill for 1001. on a merchant in Dublin ; that he had been in Skreen and Navan in search of him, and would go to Clonard that day in hopes of finding him. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, when the Jury returned, a verdict of insanity.— The deceased was about 5 feet 8 inches in height„. a heavy full-faced man, slightly pitted with, the small pox ; sandy complexion, with large high forehead, about 40 years of age ; had on a blue coat, with gilt buttons, a narrow blue and white striped vest, blue cloth pantaloons, a new pair of suspenders, white cotton stockings, new thin shoes, a Caroline hat, no maker's name, a pair of slate-coloured gloves, a fine white muslin cravat, without a pad, marked I. C. 7.' in blue silk, a fine shirt, with a frill, and marked with the same letter 4 in blue silk, a blue and, white cotton pocket handkerchief. The pistol brass mounted, a silver thumb plate with the letters' M. L.' and made by Davisson, Dublin ; •has a mark on the right hand, as if lately scalded. Ile appeared to' have been left-handed, having shot himself in the left temple, and the pistol found in his left hand when dead. lie represented himself at one titne,as a baker in search of work, but afterwards denied it."—(Dttb/iiz Freeman's Journal.)  Mr. W. HUNTER, Of Rye,'has contracted to remove the vessel lately found at Matham, to London, by land, which will be attqmpted in a few days. One thousand pounds was offered for her by some gentlemen from London, but refused.
The Sun. — 1822-12-14 (London, England)

SUICIDE.-011 Tuesday fselthight, Mr. JORX CARRVTUERS, blacksmith and innkeeper. at the Raffles, near Carlisle, drowned himself in the river Caldew. He came down to Caldewgate about one o'clock, called on several friends, paid one of them (a publican) ss. 6d. which he owed, drank a pint of ale, without betraying any visible aberration of mind, and on leaving the house, a little before two o'clock, went into the Sorceries. When he reached the river side, he made a pause, took off, his neckcloth and coat, looked at his watch, put it into his waistcoat pocket, walked to and fro two or three times, and then threw himself into the water. The fatal act was observed, by more than one person, and an immediate alarm was given ; but the body floated down with the stream, which the late heavy rains , had rendered strong and turbid, and was not: got out for about twenty minutes, when the vital spark had tied. An inquest was held on the unfortunate man's remains the same afternoon, before lticuAnn LOWRY, Esq., and the Jury returned a verdict of " temporary derangementk"  Last night an inquisition was taken at the " Grave Maurice," Whitechapel-road, on the body of Thomas Quee, aged four years.— The mother of the deceased said she had gone out on Thursday evening, about five o'clock, to a neighbouring shop for half a pint of o►l, leaving him in doors, and cautioning him not to go out. She had not been many minutes away. At her return she was alarmed at the screams of a child, who was crying, seemingly in great agony, and calling out—Oh! mamma ! mamma ! and soon she discovered that these screams proceeded froth the deceased, whom she met in the lane carried by a neighbour, wrapped up in. a blanket, who was taking him the doctor's ; and who informed her that she had found him enveloped in flatne4. She instantly ran with him to the London hospital, and he there died about 12 o'clock yesterday forenoon. There was a little fire in her own room when she \vent out, and the deceased was the on►y person in' the house at the time ; bait she could not say how he became on fire. Verdict -" Accidental death by burning."  A man belonging to the coast blockade fell over the cliff on the evening of Wednesday se'nnight, between Eastbourne and Berlin Gap, at a spot near Holywell, where it is about 300 feet in height. The only injury he received was the fracture of one of the small bones of the arm,! Yesterday morning, at half-past seven o'clock, as Mr. BROWN, master plasterer, residing at No. 92, Quadrant, Regent-street, was passing through Cold-bath-square, ou his way to the new Church,building at the back of Wellingtou-street, S'aint Luke's, and on which he is employed, be perceived a common rush basket laying against the palings that surround the unfinished buildings, land on taking it up, discovered it contained the body of a full grown male infant ; it was quite naked and bloody. The legs were double'd back, and the body crushed together. He tookif immediately to the Overseer, yr. Bunt, Bowling Green-lane, who had it conveyed to.,the Workhouse.  ~: ~.  •  1 '
The Sun. — 1822-02-11 (London, England)

DRURY•LANE.--A very interesting new melodrame was brought forward at this Theatre, on Saturday last, under the title of Adeline. The story is very simple and very affecting. Adeline, the daughter of an old blind Officer, contrary to the cautious given by her father, is seduced from hic house by a young Nobleman, who assumes the name of Fabian, and appears in the capacity of a poor artist. He is niiirrled,' and deceives Adeline by a pretended marriage, with the assistance of a profligate Baren;— .Adeline discovers the plot, and returns to her father, who receives her with affection, but exacts a promise that she will never see Fa• bian any more, still, however, ignorant who he really is. At length, after scenes of distressful interest, tortured by remorse for neglecting her father's admonitions, and by her hopeless attachment to Fabian, she throws hersel-i into the river in sight of the audience, but is rescued from the waves, and' again brought forward, 3 et, exhausted by grief and the effect of the water, dies in the arms of her father. Why she should die when she has recovered without the assistance of the Humane Society we cannot conceive.— Some change should be made in the catastrophe, as the feelings revolt at seeing the .heroine thus committing suicide.—The piece was through Out well supported.—Miss CAPELAND was the heroine, and she gave her part with all the truth and energy of nettle. COOPER was affecting in the blind old Officer. PENLEY was very respectable in Fabian, and KNIGHT diverting and interesting in a faithful domestic. We join with a Morning Paper in condemning the absurd custom of not mentioning on the play-bills the names of the Characters in new pieces, as a knowledge of their names would facilitate the operation of the fable. The piece was very well receiaed acid evert;, by rot of the audience, demanded for repetition this evening. The house was badly attended at first, but the audience gradually increased, and Mad 6 a respectable appearance during the representation of the second piece, Three Weeks after Nan: riage, in Which Er.w•ros performed Sir Charles Racket with . true comic spirit, and Mrs. EDWIN sustained the, part of Lady Racket with corresponding vivacity and humour,
The Sun. — 1822-02-04 (London, England)

TRDER, FOLLOWED BY  SUICIDE.  It has rarely fallen ,to our lot to. record' a greater and More deliberate act' of atrocity thatt the following,' for the authenticity of which we can vouch man of the name of Harris, residing. in Queen-'street,':Bryanstone-square, and who formerlY:had been The- rk to an ironmonger in Circus-Street, New-road, suspected the fidelity. of his wife, to whoth he had been married filleytt years. We dealine, for very obvious re:- sons, in- the present stage of the affair, to make any comments upon the prObahility of his suspicions being either well or ill founded ; they had i.taken sufficient possession of his mind to excite him to the double crime of murder and suicide. lie had latterly been only an occasional visitor to his wife, and had 'not seen Tier some weeks-. On Friday evening het Called upon her in Queenstreet, and finding' that she was 'wiith,a. neighbourmg friend in Seymour-place, he went .there, and requested her to come home,. as he wished to Speak to "her previous to his departure for Wales, which he said Was to take place on the ensuing morning. Mrs. Harris complied with his request, and went home with him. They sat down to tea, accompanied by a child of seven or eight years old, their atiopted son. In a short time he sent the child out upon an errand, and immediately drew out a pocket pistol,with %aid' he shot at the unfortunate- woman, and severely wounded her. She screamed and rushed to the door, and at the moment the people of the houSe came to her assistance, he presented another-pistol to his own head, and inflicted a mortal wound. A neighbouring Surgeon, Mr. North, of Seymourplace, immediately attended, and paid every proper attention -to the wpman. Her lower jaw dislocated on one side, and severely fractured. She is now under the care of Mr. Guthrie and-Mr.:North, and it is confidently hoped will do well. She is unfortunately in the seventh month of her pregnancy. The nature of the wound which thethan himself had received, rendered it impossible to afford. him any assistance, although he lingered for Many hours. Ott the morning of the saint' day, he gave to the child an accurate list of what was found'in Iris pockets, consiqin;; clf six soirreigns, a watch, &c. He was a fine stout man in the prinie cf life, and we understand bore a most excellent character. An Inquest will' sit _upon the body to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock.—. (Morning Paper.)  The Earl of Junsry has, since his late return from the Continent, reduced the rents of tenantry 30 per cent., and allowed the reditctidn , to take place from Midsummer last. •
The Sun. — 1822-02-07 (London, England)

CERTIFICATES; FER. 26: • • 11. Wood, Whitelaven, grbeer-T. *Mann, Halifax, ricrchant-J. Croft, Kingston upon-Hall, draper G. Flower; York, victualler-J; Porter, Lmiing-Rootiling; I:Ssex, farmer I. and T. Bullman„. •Ntilne,orp, .Westmorland, mercers----T. Kay, London, auctioneer-11. w.. Adcock, Croaker, Crayford,-Kent; Itirnir.- • -PA RT NER Sri ISSOLVE a • 11. and B. Brownhill,, Stockport, corn-dealers-j. and W. Simon, Liverpool, druggistsW..Steel•and pool, plinnberSHW. Penson and A. RObertson;: kdinburgh; music-sellers-j.'•lll'Tae'gart aa nntnelL-Manchester, cotton -npuju facturers÷ J. , -.Lang.„ linen drapers-J. Andrew, It. eizi,ior, and -J. Robinson, ...Man_ chester, manufatturefsH'R. Gutter-lane; silk manufactureth:-,t.,Braithwaite, and-T. Mason? Liverpool, tobacco pipe.manufaeturers--J, 14ab1. 0P(I, J. Dickson, J.. Lee, and K. Garrard,Fisli,street-h bab erdasliers HT.Vardon and E. Baker, St. If elerics--place, meicliantW; Sharpies, J. Leather, jun., and T. Dickinson, Liverpool, timber merchants-R. A. Reddall.and J. Osbearn,, coal.; and timber merchants -R.• Fry and 11. Day,,Ttittenham-court-road, linen-drapers-'.• and A. Seward, Bullhertdcourti Netvgate-street, lacenien-D: and T. Shirley,7Lime-street, wine.merchants. • • , •  It is mentioned . in a letter; from Berlin,:tbat on the afternoon!.of the I.2thlilt..thatcapital Was, at nearly the sametim. e. 5 the, scene of lAy9 very shocking events.- A .young -,.sfOgnt had „coinwitted suicide by.sta.bbing himself; and, in.. the street of the Moors, a young man,, .who earned his livelihood by cleaning boots and shoes, .had some words with his mother. .14 gave her several violent blows on the head,, with a hammer, which deprived her of life. After committing this parricidal act, he placed .himself near the body, and did many strange things, which would seem to imply insanity. The police were occupied in unravelling the mystery.... The writer of this letter observes, that, as several suicides had been committed in the Prussian capital and the neighbourhood, an- hypothesis had been started —whether the late very extraordinary and stormy weather, now a high temperature, -and then a. dense atmosphere, accompanied by electrical phenomena, had not exerted- an. influence on such individuals as were by temperament predisposed to mental maladies? • • .  It is said that the.minotity of the. Faculty of Advocates, being 4-4 in number, have intimated to the Lunn PnovosT, through an agent appointed for the purpose of conducting their opposition, that, they, and several,, of their brethren who were not, present at that meeting, do not intend to waive their privileges, as Members of the College of Justice, in behalf of the Bill brought forward by the Committee at the Council Chamber ; but that, on contrary, they mean to appear and vindicate their privileges before Parliament.—(Edinburgh Courant.)  DEMOLITION OF EIitANDENBURCII
The Sun. — 1822-06-28 (London, England)

JUNE 25.—The Journal dindre Loire of the 22d 'natant says, " General Berton set out yesterday from Saumur for Poictiers, from whence he is to be conveyed under a good escort by the road of Loudun." The number of suicides which took place at Paris in 1821 was 348 ; in 1820 there,were only 325. The Gazette de Lyon says—" It is stated that the School of z 44W, which has existed at Grenoble since 1793, and which a Royal Ordonnance suppressed in 1821, is about to be transferretl to Valence, where it existed for several centuries previous t° the Revolution." Letters from Saumur state, that Delon was one of the armed t.:°°l" which came to the aid of Berton, and of which Valfel Wed the Chief by a pistol shot. Delon is wandering in the fields, and cannot escape the active search of which he is the Object--(Quotidiennc.) it It is said that Valfel will receive immediately the Brevet of a °lenaber of the Legion of Honour, and pass into the corps of Royal Gendarmerie with the rank of ,liieutenant.—(ibid.) Four or five days since two persons of the highest rank, cornfrom Spain, and proceeding to Lyons, passed through .13rnes•—(Journal de Paris.) Letters from Perpignan of the 15th instant, say, " A letter brought by the last courier, written by a Liberal of Barcelona, sates that the insurrection is general in Catalonia, and that a 4ilisi°rl of Constitutionalists, returning from an unfortunate ejcPedition, were guilty of the most dreadful excesses, rape, robbery, and assassination.—( Gazette de France.) _ " A Captain of the 6th regiment (La Creuse) writes from gard, that he had witnessed a combat which had taken Place within a few days near La Jonquera. He had, he said, seen many battles, but none which displayed so much fury on both sides. Victory at length decided for the Royalists; their enemies lost much ; and 200 cavalry, and two mountain pieces, were the prey of the victors.—( " According to a letter from Barcelona, the Liberals had pillaged several warehouses belonging to the French, and had ordered the proprietors to quit the city and province. One of these unfortunate men writes to his family that he was on his road, with several others, to return to France, but that they feared being assassinated by the way.—(l bid. " ISlajor-General the Marquis d'Hautpoul is arrived at PerThe German Journals maintain silence respecting the affairs or Russia and the Porte. The private letters are still of a Pacific character.
The Sun. — 1822-10-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—On Sundsaieen to throw bri'c'telf coll;ine and ten o'clock, a wo, kftepe• Thretne basin of the Regent ms aenanwla, near BattNp the spot, succeeded, Ipttit:ll4l:eibblbeei°Yntsro' trouble in iwnereetue4n her out. A Ilattonto-9 , had 'the woman conveyed 'lttlle • °XI", t} 1e nillarid head public-house, Battlesmedi..N 41e'ri "„"t' was then to all appearanceen- lifeless. and . . th,. itt li!riß"ti'ire,,fsent for, after applying the, uTsiwiaol means .Nitgve yea; time, as Mary Hickey, fiZti • tlilt' ai Wses°tfo she was quite rrenstaomreed. She was .about , naLtel,acae.nd gave felthe to:tletilAt'reanity of the persons svhoawraeystlovrie:hdf: no sort iglerra,titaunds herself in 14 41 Way, siNsvas determined to make the''et o,41:1 Nth L'e had not been married more th(aintaencioanntshe otof -141111„1 Years younger than herself.; said, ti,„o4/leo,-; commit the desperate act, she arose from 1/411444; 4114130..iigraablbee state in which she and agheerwhhiueshbasnhtel r yof about eleven years of titeetti4ed 1,,,1,`°1111er husband, and which child' it 'appeared l-te Iv4te‘l4ally to greatest the greatest cruelt. I', she 'vomit suicide thatbeforeSojumped into the ke-eliief. shedete_rmined was she A (4,opi, ed her hands together with a silk hand . I;l?:lltCettiktaN,:r•---in the early part of last week, same zu and Lady, who passed for man and It ntile4„--' to Camelford, and took up their abodeda r,',Getu7 the inns at that place. The next day t''trgvetuau, who had the appearance of . -°Rtils",,rl,;4ll3 came to the town, and speedily re Of 4,t4 the Lad as his wife, the mother 11).1,ttrrielieral childrZ, who had eloped with a :11464 taan, the father of a large family,r. NtiNot;...resc.„_. : 'eu husband used every means of ptee _ i)Nati tal his power to induce the infatua could littorettil::rstieattinern home, but in vain ; she d to quit her paramour, and theto e;,r fatp-uate man was compelled to leave her.i a. a;`4tlts rrhe affair becoming known, the in i . 'roe exPressed so h indignation at this ftit lis Case -- much his companion tit tt tee '3 that the officer and ' did tjetsls,rarY to change their quarters, which 4 hursday evening.  MR.
The Sun. — 1822-07-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE.AII Inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon; before Mr. UNwni, the Coroner, at the Grave Mc': ris, Whitechapel-road, on view of the body of .111 r. tior_ gi.e" Ilarewood, aged about thirty, who put a period to his existlw by cutting his throat. It.appeared from evidence tbat the ceased, who had lived for some years as clerk in the eroploYS Alessrs. Ilibert and Co., West India merchants, resided Wt e his wife and family at Kennington, and that he was for sw".. time back troubled with a brain fever, which reduced.hird t-°„;" low dejected state, and brought on such symptoms of insani`' I as to render it necessary to have a close watch kept over but he unfortunately having eluded the vigilance of his keep d,,. escaped into the water-closet of a friend's house in Mile-er, on Monday forenoon, and there cut his throat with a penknl_!fi almost from ear to ear. lie was soon afterwards discover'; bleeding profusely from the wound, and was instantly veyed to the London Hospital, where he expized in the coil of two hours after. Verdict—" That the deceased put a per,, to his existence by cutting his throat, being at the time 1" state of temporary mental derangement.",  COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 16. Amstetdam Ditto, at Sight l2 6 Rotterdani Antwerp l2 6 iO. Hamburgh as 0 e. 2 , rip Altona ... Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 70 0 ti,„ Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankfortou the Main ... ...... 157 Ex' 1t.,-ti re d Madri Cadiz Bilbol .. 3si E gee Barcelona ...................351 Seville ' Gibraltar Leghorn OtltiAt . 431-Venice, Ital. Liv 27 60 Malta 45 -Naples 391 rOP Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro , 46 Dublin .... 9i Cork 9i pet Ceut.  Portugal Gold, in Coin L.o 0 0 P<< C¢ Foreign Gold, in Mrs $ 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars O. 4 9 Silver'm Bars. Standard