ROMANTIC SUICIDE AT WINDSOR.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2991, 16 September 1878, Page 2

ROMANTIC SUICIDE AT WINDSOR.

Early on the morning of the 12fch June, Count Aubriet tie Pevy, a French nobleman, lately resident in London, committed •nicide at Windsor, by drowning himself in the Thames. While the military police were patrolling the river side shortly after midnight, Privates Somerrille and Tuck, of the Ist battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, found, near Hill's Ferry, a heap of clothing, neatly arranged, with a black-, mourning envelope pinned .to the poat. The letter bore the words, "My jlast impressions. To be .opened. Count Aubriet de Pevy." .Mr Chief-Superin-tendent Hayes, of the Windsor Borough Police, was immediately informed of the occurrence, and instructed* the Humane Society to drag the stream; but before .this could be done, the body of the unforfubate nobleman, attired only in his shirt, drawers, and socks, was discovered' between 3 and 4 o'clock, just after daylight, near The Cobbler, east of Windsor Bridge,' by Plumridge, a Thames fisherman.. It, was landed and removed to the Anglers' Best, Bier lane. With the clothing were found a swordstick, some jewellery, and other articles; also an enve'ope containing photographs of the deceased and) his countess, the date of the letter's death being written upon the back of the [picture. There were also two visiting cards, one surmounted by a coronet, with the words " Aubriet de < Pevy, 4, Albemarle street, W.," while;the other bore the address, " Madame Aubriet de Pevy, 12a, Cornwall Ebad, Westbourne Park." In addition, there was a newspaper paragraph headed " Singular death of a French Countess in Langham street," giving details of the sudden death of the countess, and to which | was attached a verse of poetry written in I Italian; also a piece of paper with: the following :—" My clothes and property to be taken to the railway station, care of the station master." Upon opening: the letter pinned to the coat,, two sheets of; notepaper were found thus addressed:— I " Count Aubriet de Pevy's last impres-1 sions. At the disposal of any inquest and ! ihe Press," some extracts from which'

are appended. "Count Aubriet de Pevy's last impression! — I hate resolved to die. To be free of this world, which is after all but a kind of experimental hell, where bad and good are mixed in disorder, may be considered a, blesßing. Montaigne says :—' What has mankind to complain of ? If there is only one way of coming into the world, there are a hundred ways of getting out of it.' I think one of the cleanest was in the water, and therefore choose it as, a preferred death-bed. There's many a spot where I can* plunge in;:""'l wTOpe, indeed, for a better .world. I do not fear ' death," although' it, may be disagreeable..to our senses. I take it from a higher point"of TielrTT" know that as sooacaft we have, .departed from the human frame of his worldjnerer to to revive again), we are immediately supplied 'with a new body. Kul niorfe eftKteal. It has our shape i ana form, is lifcf us, bmt more beautiful<.leM.er more according toi ,what we are wprtl^; M H to the • wicked,, they bear, the stamp of what they really are. This win reality theHesuryectipn,, and ought'f •) be understood: and we also' undergo immediate^ jutfgmms „and are sept to the, different parts of tfift spiritual world-suilnble^ otrweTves. The good enjoy this at once. The wicked;i are ; kwVund^ r r,snbjec^jpn and severe laws/ but Tnere^is always a door open for—them if they purify, for God is ever merciful. I leave the^world: tkeie jrinpleotruthft highly respecting' the' fbuSders-eT manytreligions, and one in particular—Jesus of Nazareth. He was a well-iaspiredaman, who wished to fr*e his country from the abases of priesthood) *nd tfo^presifchlAfl tftfhny of kings and Ctottn of Wo^'iLer ;some pjther cpninwrts the writer says: " I die, therefore/ in'the firm belief of being safe (not saved, which; is ridiculous). . . . Born in rank! and fortune, I hare yet undergone manj misfortune, illness, and mental sorrow!" OThe 1 sudden deajbh^f my^dear covntess. only 28, handsome, beloved by alrin'TJTanefe ind/here, has broken tny heart: T1 loved her dearly. I dare'^say"l>thaU jfln*jkf^ry^nd now farewell. -^ Cte. Aubm^i; /dk PaTY." ITpon the recovery, of the body, Mr Superintendent Hay»s ctil(>d;m the kid of Dr Holderness, who exsjtoinidhthe >remains, but life was extinct M A weeding ring, supposed to be that of his wife, was found upon one of the fingers W the oifortunate nobleman, whose Jut/addre^syis given as 44,, Langham~«treet, Portland place,