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The Sun. — 1824-02-20 (London, England)

PARIS, FEB. 17.--M. Joseph de Heredia, brother to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, who is intrusted with a mission to the Court of St. James's, relative to the liquidations and claims, arrived at Bourdeaux on the 12th of this month, and set out for London the following day. The French Consul at Tunis has written the King's Attorney-General at Marseilles, declaring that there is not the smallest truth in a story told by the Journal du Commerce, and repeated by the Paola, that M. F., a merchant of Marseilles settled at Tunis, had committed suicide, after having made a solemn affidavit that he had committed the crime of baratry, for which M. Vita Costa, a merchant of Marseilles, had been condemned to five years' imprisonment. FRENCH Fn inls, Paris, Feb. 17.—Five per Cents. opened at 100. 30. ; highest, 100. 65 ; lowest, 99. 60. ; closed at 100. 15. Bank Stock, 1,750; Neapolitan Five per Cents., 86i ; Rentes d'Esp. 26. Exchange on London, one month, 25 45; three months, '25 35.—( Cours Authentique.)  Dutch Papers to the 19th, and liamburgh to the 14th inst. have arrived. The former only announce that the Royal Decree issued in Jan. to authorise the raising of a loan of 1,500,000 florins, for the purpose of digging a canal from Vranen to Goraim, was ordered to be put into execution, and that the agents sent by the Kings of Sicily and Spain to Switzerland found much difficulty, both from the Government and the people, in obtaining recruits for the service of their respective Sovereigns. The Hamburgb Papers assert that the King of Denmark seriously intends to give a Representative Constitution to his subjects; and that not only Prelates and tha Equestrian Order are to have a share in the Representation, but that free landholders and the cities  will enjoy the same advantage. A High Court of Appeal for Holstein and Luueberg is also to be established at Kiel.  CITY, Twelve o'C/ock.:--Consols opened this morning at 911,1, and, on the Expresses arriving from Paris with the fall of the French itentes, and likewise that of Spanish, the Market became heavy, and lowered to 91-1414.—The Expresses from Paris bring the French Rentes at 99f. 30c., last price after 'Change. They were done as low as 95 70 in the course of the day.--Spanish,2lN. The private letters state that the above fall was owing to an operation between a French Banker at Paris and a certain mercantile house in London, for the purpose of purchasing New Spanish Bonds, and causing the New and Old Spanish Bonds to be nearly of one price.
The Sun. — 1824-04-12 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  On Saturday, at one o'clock, an inquest was held in the Fleet Prison, before T. SHELTON, Esq. Coroner for the City, on the body of John Cress Morphiew, who put a period to his existence, by cutting his throat, in his apartments in that prison.—After the Jury had been sworn, they proceeded to take a view of the body of the unfortunate deceased, which presented an appalling spectacle. It appeared that the deceased had inflicted a severe wound in the jugular vein, under the left car, and the effects following were clearly apparent. A son of the unfortunate deceased was present at.the inquest and so affected, as to be unable on the out-set to give his testimony...:  The first witness examined was James Beaumont, a native of Yorkshire, and a prisoner in the Fleet.—He deposed, that about five o'clock in the evening of Friday, he was near the door of the deceased ; his son endeavoured to obtain ingress, but was unable, and ,Aitness was induced to break the fan-light, to obtain admission. Witness saw the deceased lying on his back, with the wound in the part already described ; he .appeared quite dead.  John Holder deposed, that he knew the deceased ; walked with him on the night preceding the catastrophe ; he said he had been blooded, and requested some lint to apply to his right arm, and observed that he had been to Mrs. Lewis to borrow a knife to scrape it. • Witness afterwards saw the son of the deceased, to whom he communicated his suspicions of his father's derangement ; he complained of a constant pain iu his head, ani spasms ; witness advised him to be bled, as a corrective of those disorders.  A Gentleman who knew the deceased when a prisoner in Whitecro::s-street, deposed, that he had long considered the G entl email deceased subject to mental derangement. A letter couched in incoherent language, written by the , solvent, was herJ handed to the Coroner, by which it would appear that the deceased writer was not at all times capable of expressing his sentiments with precision. Mr. James Phillips, one of the turnkeys of the prison, was called—The deceased lodged with him, and from his conduct he should consider that he was not right in his head ; he had the gout there, which part the witness never heard before was likely to be affected with that disease ; his ways and manners were frequently extremely irregular, which seemed to arise fetus distress of mind.  The CORONER put it to the Jury, under all the circum. stances, whether they could have any doubt as to whether thdec2ased came by his death by his own act while under the ine fluence of mental derangement.  The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict to that effect.:
The Sun. — 1824-12-23 (London, England)

SUICIDES.  A Coroner's Inquest was taken on Tuesday, at the Hare and Hounds public house,- Newington, on the body of Charles Fennell, who put a period to his existence on Mon. day. Deceased had been for nearly four years confidentially engaged in the management of the estates of Johnson Lloyd,_ Esq., near Southend, and had continued so Ontil• about three or four months ago, when some inaccuracy was detected in his accounts by his master, who informed the deceased that unless the deficiencies were made up within a car. twin period, legal proceedings would be taken. Unfortu. nately, it appeared that he either could not or did not make any attempt to remedy those ;errors ; anti fearing the come. quence of a public exposure, about a fortnight previous to ti a time of settlement; he absconded, .taking with him, however, no property belonging to his employer. 'When his Might was discovered, Mr. L. imagined that he had carried off money to a considerable amount, which was then unaccounted for; but on breaking open the desk in the office, the whole sum was found, together with the following letter, addressed to Mr. L. " Honoured and much injured Master—There's no aye in saying any thing as to what a past—l have wronged you, and am sorry for so doing ; but as a proof that I am not a con. firmed rogue, I have not touched one penny of money or any other thing belonging to you. You will find all right, save only the deficiencies in my last settlement, which 1 have at present no earthly means of making, good. The supply which I have on leaving. your house is, God knows, very small ; neither have I a friend to whom Lean apply for assistance-;--so that when that is run out, I do not know what shall become of me, or how to subsist. Do not pursue me with the Jaw—it can do you no good to punish me--and believe. me, that had no intention to defraud you of one farthing. The account; up to the moment of my quitting your service, is along with-the books—and the money, being 751. 13s. Bill, is tied up in the cash bag. Forgive me, worthy Sir, and God Almighty will bless von and yours for ever and. ever. " C.
The Sun. — 1824-05-08 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.— 'Tavern, 3 , e_end.. a situation, through a friend, aboutri three he hotly of Mr. Cl)ai. road, before J. W. Ihrwrx, Esq. upon found on Byson, a young man about 18 ve r 41? 67 " ears by u. Holland, a watch- • o'clock an Inquisition was held Itehset last Tuesday night about suspendedtwelve by a clothesline from 111,. man, on going his rounds, _.,. It appeared the deceased branch of a tree in the Groved-reen had served his apprenticeshi ; t was of respectable parents, an the business, he lived with Ihi: master in expectation a ow' Globee rttl a v at, to which he expected to be appointed • " in some public departme any's Docks. lie latterly p 'el in the East India ComPoung lady (whose name We for ob • unremitting attention to a 3%1 a shoemaker; hut not _lci)!Enriging ,enti ,to whom he was • _ obvious s particularly atreasons forbear to n ever t id not give him that tached. The lady 1-I?,v _ ft- tions merited Ishe • encoaragenn nt -htliisa ec , ant latte:ly received which he them,. . 1 suitor. This, • of a rive . • with the disappointment on the addresses . . delayv. in obtainin.r the situation, theeat alteration in his conduct was latterly ' d appamind, ' that a „,r His mother paid him every attention which his state re required, ; d and endeavoured to soothe him as much as in her • power lay. On Tuesday fortunate ilst taking a walk, he met the ladY, together with his more rival ; and it is sly,. sea that in his uneasy state of mind, this circumstance so Po affected him as to drive him to the commission of the rash act. After the examination of the watchman and the elder brother of the deceased, the Jury returned a verdict of—" Temporary Insanity."
The Sun. — 1824-09-09 (London, England)

WORSHIP STREET.ASSAULT .UPON A POLICE OF. rtexu.).--On TueNlay night, Oaten, the Chief Officer of this division, dispatched Vann, Waters, Hanley, and Fitzpatrick to g perambulate Chiswell-street and itg vicinity, which is one of the leading passe es to Bartholomew Fair. A short time after twelve as Fitzpatrick- was passing between Bunhill-row and Whitecross-street, a person who gave his name as John Brown, first stated be lived in Whitechapel, and afterwards in Rose-lane, carne up and meeting the Officer, without saying a word, knocked offhis hat. Fitzpatrick instantly seized the fellow, and apprised him who lie was, hut he was immediately surrounded by nearly 29 of the fellow's aitociates who, dun* knocking the officer down, kicked him in the most shameful and brutal manner. They then ran in the direction of Finsbury-square. Fltzpa. trick, after apprising the officers, went in pureutt of them, and at the corner of the square' in Chiewell-street, they found the prisoner convening with a person of the name of Clarke, well known at the Ohlflailey. Ile was instantly secured— He was yesterday brought before Mr. Bennett, when Fitzpatrlck, who had one of his eyes completely closed, and was otherwise so treated as to be rendered incapable of duty, attended, and after stating the circumstances, Mr. Bennett or. dered the prisoner to be held to bail ; and felt, that as the officers were in their pnblic duty, 24 hours notice of the solt vency of the bill should be given. 'st  Notices have been given of an Act of Parliament to make another tunnel under the Thames, from Greenwich to Poplar. The Schaffhausen Gazette gives an account of a suicide commed in a most extraordinary manner by a man at Illarot, who filled his nostrils, mouth, and ears with gunpowder, and then blew off the top of his head.
The Sun. — 1824-01-07 (London, England)

SUICIDE.----An unfortunate gentleman, named CARSON, put a period to his existence on Monday evening-, at his lodgings in Oxford-road, by a process not generally resorted to—namely, bleeding to death. The deceased was a native of Germany, and was for many years attached to the medical staff of the army. under the command of the late Duke of Brunswick, in whose suit he first visited this country. On the conclusion of the peace, he threw up his appointment, and exercised his profession whenever opportunity served ; but, unfortunately, he had neither friends nor interest to press him-into notice, amid the talents of a really clever man were buried in the obscurity of a mean garret that he occupied lu the house of a huckster woman, while their possessor pined away in indigence, poverty, and want. Being arrived, it is presumed to the plus ultra of human misery, he applied on Saturday to a foreign gentleman, who had known him abroad, for a trilling pecuniary aid ; but the boon was denied, and he returned home wHi that dreadful resolve which he has scow so fatally put into execution. About four o'iock on Monday evening he returned home, and complainiurt of illness, said he should go to bed, and desired. Isis landlady not to disturb him on any account. This good-natured woman, however, thinking he would require a little aliment of some sort, resolved to disobey his mandate ; and in order to let him have some chocolate (his favourite beverage) she opened the door of his room, where he lay weltering in his blood, which was still trickling from the main artery of each arm, which. he had opened, the lancet stili remaining in his right hand. He was then not quite cold. A surgeon was immediately procured, but too late —the vital spark had tied for ever. Coes E xcmas GE, Jae. 7.—Sinc2. the wind has moderated, oar supplies have increased ; Wheat, 3,14'9 ; Barley, 2,10 Q Oats, 6,f)00 ; Irish Oats, 1,020 quarters ; Flour, 10J sackF• The Wheat trade is not so heavy as en Monday, aria there is no reduction in prices. Barley sells on much the same teeing as last quoted. Prime Oats meet buyers freely at Monday quotations.  Printed and Published for the PROrRIET•I4%, at the Sine  OFFICE, 112, strgtati, by J. B. CArtsrAnts.
The Sun. — 1828-12-10 (London, England)

JEALOUSY AND APPALLING SUICIDE.-Oa Saturday evening last, a young man committed suicide at Stamford, under the mast painful circumstances, and in a truly horrid manner. Tlie youth was named Dothuan, an apprentice to Mr. John Lurohy, butcher, in the Highstreet. He retired to rest on the above evening about his usual time, and soon afterwards, on the sister of his emplayer going up stairs, she was alarmed by a strong swell of gunpowder, and called to her brother, who entered the room usually occupied by Dotiman, and there he found the wretched young man sitting at the foot of the bedstead, with one" side of his face literally blown off, but still alive and perfectly connioul, and at that time holding the remains of his shattered Lead aver a box. which be had placed between his knees to catch the blood ! ! A gun was lying near bins on the floor. Notwithstandin,* his dreadfully mutilated state, the suffering youth lingered until the next day, when his life became extinct. , The cause of tb. dreadfol act is ascribed to jealousy, he having reason to i.! suppose that a young woman to whom he was particularly attached, had oortainerreed axe hitimacy wish another youth. —l3ost4n Gazette.  oitlfgCeth)3l:ll:lpW"S/P::::4l2er A. singular species of Molluscs, from the coast was sent to that gentleman by Captain WLite, commandby Mr. Calder. The specimen who gives the following account of the manner in which it was ptocured by him. While passing Ceylon, be sem kind before,a boat canteen; iu whirls was this ount otfhethceoalsatrgoof oust, cvylo onn h: curious se" 6:nignad thel na''ettiLevhosadpospisivepeveraclr.toleet.de:hatantv(elyatgLta_theoftloretifadita ing touched, Pc""e"iljg is of them, rd:lBtl:eirtklyt guliievviele6t ifsayluni':Uota: tiltathchdauet wouldwtloteelass nplow)etialilithloo grgal:Pitilrolseate:nnnyttsbor-caf trtPteeeleeicLkusbleAl4l9P'4l:l:liitrutt:Yaiusdi:'°.adPttf,L:arealltsx:::liiertbiltrtludujh.odelibffy:wiisrm:Yea'n:eulagalutsai.litrnaiectlnlyvincelt:vit.cisber'eetli:t:llindegiSPivoteltdatiBenfra:eot:ul tends. ~ It is, however, chiefly interesting front the reputed galltuhdeedubtooiltiyy in this point Cie Torpedo Rai" of Pam'''. pWershoitensofhabned rurrintli.rinigt,"436or destroying touching it, resembling and Gymnotus .157retricks.
The Sun. — 1828-07-28 (London, England)

SIR HUGH O'DONEL.—WC are authorised to state, that the paragraphs which have appeared in this and other Journals, attributing to Sir Huai O'Dorirt, an attempt on his own life, were founded altogether on misinformation. It is true the young Baronet has been wounded, but his wound is the consequence of one of those accidents which occur every day from handling fire-arms without sufficient caution, and had nothing to do with suicide, which he never contemplated. It gives us sincere pleasure to add, that a letter, received in town yesterday, from Sir SAMUEL (MALLET, describes Sir Huose as considerably better, and holds out strong hopes of his ultimate and complete recovery from the;e:eaffn.deci, accident.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. The weather for three days past has been remarkably fine in this neighbourhood, sad the crops ale recovering rapidly from the effects of the previous heavy Thweeek,oilthe rragurachinms are rains. We are sorry, however, to state, that the disease g unfortunatet to present: before in the wheat, which wh.:lni.,:iceerdopi:aat strong and healthy, and Well. The &manta from the Highland rdist .ensste of the crops presenting an fore by no means agpenpeeraarlanthoes,an weth rtehaet,rini.mtsogitoke;in what was u. appearance nap eFed d that part of the country.— The late heavy rains have been very partial in the north, and what rain has fallen has been far from unseasonable.— His Majesty's ship Bramble has just arrived from Oporto, and brings letters stating that three English merchant ships had been seised by the Portuguese authorities at Oporto, on the pretence of their being engaged to convey to England the property of the leaders of the late Consti•• tutional forces. Two of the vessels seized are the Friend, and the Vintage ; we have not heard the name of the third. The cargoes with which they were about to nil were unloading, and the vessels will probably be condemned, unless the English Government interfere with effect.
The Sun. — 1828-10-18 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—On Friday last, a man named TAYLOR, a collier, walked into the canal at Walk Mill, near Ashton, and drowned himself. The body was found soon afterwards, and is said to have been warra whet) taken out ; but instead of sending for a surgeon, the persons who found the body merely sent for the constable!—Stockport Adrert;ser.  On Saturday night last, about e:even o'clock, the driver of the mail coach alighted at Littleton to trim the lamps, when be was knocked down by two ruffians, each of whom struck him a blow with II stick and fled— the only reason he could assign to the passengers for this assault, was a quarrel which he had sometime previously with the guard ! the venal scribes and alarmists who live by calumniating the country, will probably announce this assault on the driver, as " an attack on his Majesty's msil coach, at Littleton ! !"—Tipperary Free Press.  " Will you join our Brunswick Club, Captain ?" said a gallant and ci-derant son -burnt Colonel,  (who, accustomed to the browned musket, has shuddered, it is said, at polished Steele,) to an old son of Neptune ; you will, no doubt ; " for," said he, after an astonishing display of speech, " these are times when every man must he either a Catholic or protestant !"—" Why, by G—, Sir, lam neither," replied the old tar. This broadside made the land-lubber sheer UM—Dublin Morning Post.  IRISH ANswEßs.—During a gale of wind, last week, when the greater part of the passengers in one of the Liverpool steam-boats were sick, a very tall Irish. man, who seemed to take matters very easily, was complimented by a friend of our's upon his being so stout and hale ; to which Pat replied, " Oh, yes, master, I believe I'm pretty stout, thank Goal ; I can stand as much sleep as any man ; that's a great proof of a man's strength, you know."—North Wales Chronicle.  MELANcIioLY
The Sun. — 1828-03-24 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  On Saturday evening an inquisition was taken is the Committee-room of the _Middlesex Hotpital, before T. STIRLING, Esq. the Coroner, en. view of the body of Elizabeth Denham, a remarkable tine young woman, aged only 20, who destroyed bers4ll by poison, under the following lamentable circumstances:—  Mr. John Robinson, of No. 9, South-street, MarlL chester-square, deposed, that the deceased had occupied an apartment in his houi,e for the last several months. At the tame of her death she was employed as warehousewoman at Messrs. Gillow and Co.'s, upholsterers and ht,(l-ticl:zcn manufacteters, in Oxford-street. For the last three or four weeks ‘vitness bad observed a great alteration in the manners and person of the unfortunate girl. From being of a lively cheerful disposition, she had become very low-spirited and thoughtful,and excessively negligent. in her person. On Thursday evening last, on witness's returning home, he found the deceased in hi= hack parlour, very ill, and retching from the stornac.h. His (witness's) wife was attending on her. lie imp mediately sent for Mr. Carter, a medical gentleman residing in the street, who promptly attended. then it was discovered that she had swalloVed'a., quantity of arsenic.  Juror—Can you account for the alteration in hec conduct which you describe ?  Witness—l attributed it to her having formed an intimacy with a.young man who was formerly in Mr Gillow's employment, but was discharged for his profligate. conduct. Coroner—Did you see the deceased in coitipiny with this person at any time ? Witness—Certainly, repeatedly ; the day before she committed the rash act I saw them walking 'together in Oxford-street ; I passed them I observed that the deceased was in tears.  The father of the deceased, a respectable-looking elderly man, was in court : he appeared deeply afflicted : he said that he had not a doubt but that hiF, unfortunate child had been the victim of a villain, who, after ruining her, had robbed her of every thing she had : the miserable father added, that at the time of his daughter's death, she was utterly destitute, and be had discovered in her trunk a number of pawnbroker's duplicates of property which she had lately pledged. The Jury returned a verdict--" That the deceased poisoned herself in a state of temporary derangement."  • Seventeen of the Royal line heroes; engaged in the battle of Navarin, left this town on Wednes— day morning last, after a month's leave of absence to visit their friends ; it is a remarkable circumstance that they escaped the dreadful conflict without the slightest injury. —Most of them were on board the Albion.--Leicester Journal.