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half-pfist two), the keeper heard a 

 noise wliich uhiniied liim, but he 

 tliouij^ht it niiglit be a patient up 

 stairs, who is sometimes very 

 high, as he termed it ; however, 

 he ran up stairs, and when about 

 half way distinctly lieard the le- 

 port of a i)istol. On entering t!ie 

 vooKi it was full of smoke, and 

 the tirst thing he saw was Captain 

 Miller lying on the floor iu the 

 agonies of death: he attempted to 

 lift him up, Init he instantly ex- 

 pired. A jjistol lay witliin two 

 feet of him. About five or six 

 feet from Miller lay Fleming, on 

 his face, and the vital spark, had 

 left him also. Another pistol lay 

 al)Oiit tlie same distance from him, 

 and a three edged sword on the 

 bed close by. On a more minute 

 examination, in which Mr. Rich, 

 a surgeon, attended, it :ij)|)eared 

 that a pistol iiad been fired by 

 Fleming at Miller, who had been 

 sitting in a chair at a tal)le in the 

 act of writing, having his specta- 

 cles on, and a pen in his hand ; 

 that Fleming stood behind him, 

 •IS the ball had entered a little be- 

 low tlic left shoulder hhuie ; that 

 the piitol not having had the im- 

 mediate effect intended, I'leming 

 made use of the sword, and pierced 

 his friend in tiie body^ as inany as 

 ■even or eight times, and then, 

 with another pistol, shot himself 

 through the liead. It miglit na- 

 turally be inquired, how came 

 these destructive weapons in the 

 ro(»m ? it appears that at tiie time 

 Captain Fleming was brought to 

 fh€ Asylum, all his trunk.-., t^c. 

 were deposited there, and the keys 

 p;i\en to the proprietor, who, on 

 hi'* |)atient being pronoimccd .'-ane, 

 returned c*ery thing' to iiiui again, 



without ever having examined the 

 contents of his tiunks, in whicit, 

 unquenionabiy, lay those deadly 

 weapons. Fleming wrote two 

 letters on Saturday the I2th inst. 

 and left them in a drawer in his 

 bed-room, addressed to the Rev. 

 Mr. Gale, a visiting magistrate of 

 the Asylum, which alone were 

 sufficient to piove his insanity. 



13. The University Debating 

 Club, held at the Red Lion inn, 

 in Cambridge, having been dis- 

 solved by the personal interference 

 of tiie Proctors, by connnand of 

 the Vice-Chancellor, a petition 

 against this interference, signed 

 by several Masters of Arts and 

 Noblemen, as members of the 

 club, has been presented to hh 

 Royal Highness the Duke of 

 Gloucester, sl«! 'Jhancellor of that 

 University. — Evening Paper. 



14. From n Liverpool Paper. — 

 Last week Mr. .lolin Wright, \\h<y 

 has of late delivered religious lec- 

 tures, and held meetings for woi- 

 ship on Unitarian principles, iti 

 the Long Room, Marble-street, 

 (a place vhich has been fretjuent- 

 ly occupied by different denomi- 

 nations of Chiistians dining thi 

 last '23 years), was summoned, ofi 

 three informations, to appear be- 

 fore the magistrates, on thechasge 

 of holding meetings for wor.sh'^* 

 in a place not duly registered. 

 Mr. Wright attended at the Town 

 Hall on Saturday last, at the ap- 

 ])ointed time, when the Mayor 

 (.John Wright, Esq.) and Alder- 

 man Nicholson took their placet* 

 as the sitting ?vagistrate."(. Ther 

 were afterwards joined by Alder- 

 man .Sir W. liarton. 



Tiip first information was then 

 read, relative to a meeting for 



v> orship 



