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husband, also without uttering a 

 single word. The servants of the 

 house were all collected last night, 

 bat no cause for so horrid an act 

 was at that time known : all was 

 but conjecture. 



The following circumstances, in 

 so extraordinary a case, may be, 

 however, worth relating. The 

 count, it appears, always kept a 

 brace of pistols hanging loaded 

 in his bed-room, and a small dirk. 

 About a month ago the countess 

 and the servants heard the report 

 of a pistol up stairs, and were in 

 consequence greatly alarmed: when 

 one of the latter, a female, went 

 up stairs, and looked into her 

 masters room : it was full of 

 smoke, and she screamed out ; 

 on its clearing away she saw Law- 

 rence standing, who told her no- 

 thing was the matter, he had only 

 fired off one of his master's pistols. 

 It afterwards appeared he had fired 

 it into the wainscot ; it was loaded 

 with ball, and the bullet from the 

 pistol is yet to be seen. 



The count and countess were 

 about 60 years of age. The latter 

 was highly accomplished, a great 

 proficient in music, and greatly 

 admired for her singing, in fashion- 

 able parties. There is no reason 

 whatever to believe that Lawrence 

 was insane. Only about ten mi- 

 nutes previous to his committing 

 this deed of blood, he went over 

 to an adjoining public-house and 

 took a glass of gin ; he had lived 

 only three months in the Himily, 

 and report says, was to be dis- 

 charged in a few days. 



The count and countess had re- 

 sided in their house at Barnes for 

 four or five years, and have left an 

 only son, who, wt understand, is 



at present in this country studying 

 the law. 



Besides his house on Barnes- 

 terrace, count d'Antraigues had a 

 town establishment, No. 7, Queen 

 Ann-street, West. He was 56, 

 and the countess 53 years of age. 

 The count had eminently dis- 

 tinguished himself in the troubles 

 which have convulsed Europe for 

 the last 22 years. In 1789 he was 

 actively engaged in favour of the 

 revolution ; but during the tyran- 

 ny of Robespierre, he emigrated 

 to Germany, and was employed in 

 the service of Russia. At Venice, 

 in 1797, he was arrested by Berna- 

 dotte, at the order of Buonaparte, 

 who pretended to have discovered 

 in his port- folio, all the particulars 

 of the plot upon which the 18th 

 Fructidor was founded. The 

 count made his escape from Mi- 

 lan, where he was confined, and 

 was afterwards employed in the 

 diplomatic mission of Russia, at 

 the court of Dresden. In 1806 he 

 was sent to England with creden- 

 tials from the emperor of Russia, 

 who had granted him a pension, 

 and placed great dependance upon 

 his services. He received here 

 letters of denization, and was often 

 employed by government. The 

 countess was the once celebrated 

 mademoiselle St. Huberii, an 

 actress at the theatre Frangoise. 

 She had amassed a very large for- 

 tune by her professional talents. 



Trial and conviction of Dawson 

 at Cambridge Assizes. — The pri- 

 soner was arraigned on an indict- 

 ment, with numerous counts, viz. 

 for poisoning a horse belonging to 

 Mr. Adams, of Royston, Herts, 

 and a blood mare belonging to 

 Mr. Northey, at Newmarket, in 



1809; 



