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Upon this preseiUment being 

 matle, the Steward discharged the 

 Grand Jury, observing, that after 

 so respectable and attentive an in- 

 vestigation, he thought this city 

 stood acquitted of the suspicions 

 that had been entertained respect- 

 ing seditious meetings. 



23. Tliis afternoon, about ten 

 minutes before three o'clock, a 

 hackney-coach stopped in Pall- 

 mall, opposite the sentinel-box on 

 the west side of the east gate of 

 Carlton-house court-yard. The 

 coachman alighted from his box, 

 and was directed by the gentleman 

 to knock at the gate, and at the 

 same time he gave him a card, on 

 which was written, in pencil, 

 Capt. de Achen : the porter an- 

 swered the knock, and the coach- 

 man gave him tlie card, saying, 

 the gentleman in the coach was a 

 foreigner, and he did not under- 

 stand what he said or what he 

 wanted ; the porter replied he 

 should not understand him any 

 better. A German, in the Regent's 

 establishment, passing at the time, 

 the porter sent him to the coach- 

 door, when the stranger asked for 

 some gentleman of tlie royal es- 

 tablishiuent, who, he was inform- 

 ed, was not in Cai Iton-house ; he 

 was then observed by the German 

 to be moving his lips ; but if he 

 was talking, he could not bear 

 what he said ; at the same time 

 he observed him stooping on the 

 right side ; and as he was in the 

 act of rising, the report of a pistol 

 was heard, and a smoke issued 

 from tlie coach. The general opi- 

 nion of those within sight of the 

 transaction was, that the German 

 at the coach-door was shot, as he 

 stood motionless for the in.stant, 

 fronj alarm at tin; sudden explo- 



sion ; it was, however, immedi- 

 ately ascertained that the gentle- 

 man in the coach had shot liimself 

 in the side, and had fallen back in 

 the coach. 



Mr. Phillips, jun. the son of 

 Mr. Phillips the surgeon, Avho re- 

 sides within a few yards of the 

 sp(H, happened to be an observer 

 of the transaction, and instantly 

 ran to feel the gentleman's pulse, 

 when he pronounced him to be 

 dead : he was, however, taken into 

 Mr. Phillips's house, in which 

 Lord Robeit Seymour, who hap- 

 pened to be passing at the time, 

 very humanely assisted. His lord- 

 sliip also found in the coach the 

 instrument of his death, which 

 was a large Spanish horse pistol. 

 An attempt was made by Mr. Phil- 

 lips to bleed him, but in vain. 

 The body was afterwards con- 

 veved on some boaids to the Goat 

 public-house in Pall-mall. He was 

 a remarkably fine young man, a- 

 bout 30 years of age, upwards of 

 six feet high : he was dressed in a 

 military blue great coat, black silk 

 handkerchief round his neck, light 

 blue pantaloons. He had former- 

 ly belonged to the German legion, 

 and he proves to be of the name 

 written on the card. Captain de 

 Achen. He distinguished himself 

 in the battle of Waterloo. He 

 has been some time in this coun- 

 try, and has had a great desire to 

 be employed in the British army. 

 On Thursday he accompanied Ma- 

 jor Poten to Epsom Races. Yes- 

 terday, about one o'clock, he went 

 to the Duke of Cumberland's re- 

 sidence in St James's Palace, to 

 visit Major Poten, the major be- 

 ing aide-de-camp to tlie duke; 

 he was there about an iiour : he 

 was known to tlie duke. The ac- 

 count 



