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EXTRAORDINARY MURDER.
with costs of suit. As pecuniary satisfaction was not the
object he desired, those sums were devoted by him to
charitable purposes, and divided between the Dispensary
for the county of Surrey, and the Marine Society.
It appears that the internal oeconomy of Lord Ched-
worth’s habitation was as little suited to his rank in life
as his external appearance ; for we are informed that the
furniture of the house at which he resided in Ipswich has
been valued at no more than 1801.—His Lordship’s fond-
ness of female society, has already been mentioned.
We have likewise stated that his assiduities to certain la-
dies, had cast a shade of suspicion over their characters;
we are however enabled to state, that not the least foun-
dation existed for any injurious surmises.
Account of William Andrew Horne, Esq. executed in
\759,for a Murder committed thirty-five years before.
.Among the many instances of the remarkable judg-
ments of Providence against persons guilty of the hei-
nous crime of murder, the following is not the least ex-
traordinary, and tends to prove that, however long retri-
bution may be delayed, the murderer seldom escapes,
even in this world, that punishment which society has
decreed for his offence.
William Andrew Horne was the eldest son of a gen-
tleman possessing a good estate at Butterley, in the parish
of Pentridge, in Derbyshire. He was born on the 30th
of November, 1685. His father, who was reputed the
best classic scholar in the country, taught him Latin and
Greek, in which he made but a small progress. Being a
favourite with the old gentleman, he indulged him in early
life with a horse and money, which enabled him to ramble
about from one place of diversion to another. In this
course
EXTRAORDINARY MURDER.
with costs of suit. As pecuniary satisfaction was not the
object he desired, those sums were devoted by him to
charitable purposes, and divided between the Dispensary
for the county of Surrey, and the Marine Society.
It appears that the internal oeconomy of Lord Ched-
worth’s habitation was as little suited to his rank in life
as his external appearance ; for we are informed that the
furniture of the house at which he resided in Ipswich has
been valued at no more than 1801.—His Lordship’s fond-
ness of female society, has already been mentioned.
We have likewise stated that his assiduities to certain la-
dies, had cast a shade of suspicion over their characters;
we are however enabled to state, that not the least foun-
dation existed for any injurious surmises.
Account of William Andrew Horne, Esq. executed in
\759,for a Murder committed thirty-five years before.
.Among the many instances of the remarkable judg-
ments of Providence against persons guilty of the hei-
nous crime of murder, the following is not the least ex-
traordinary, and tends to prove that, however long retri-
bution may be delayed, the murderer seldom escapes,
even in this world, that punishment which society has
decreed for his offence.
William Andrew Horne was the eldest son of a gen-
tleman possessing a good estate at Butterley, in the parish
of Pentridge, in Derbyshire. He was born on the 30th
of November, 1685. His father, who was reputed the
best classic scholar in the country, taught him Latin and
Greek, in which he made but a small progress. Being a
favourite with the old gentleman, he indulged him in early
life with a horse and money, which enabled him to ramble
about from one place of diversion to another. In this
course