DEATH of LORD ARIHUR P. CLINTON.

North Otago Times, Volume XIV, Issue 542, 26 July 1870, Page 8 (Supplement)

DEATH of LORD ARIHUR P. CLINTON.

A ramour whioh reached London on Saturday afternoon to the effeot that Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton ha* dftd at Christohurob, Hants, has been now confirmed. It appears that he died on Saturday from scarlet ferer, and though the services of several eminent physicians were oalled in, yet there waa no hope. HiB lordship was the third son of th« late Duke of Newcastle, and was 30 years of age. He waa edaoated at Woodoote Sohool, near Beading, and at Eton. He entsred the navy in 1854, served in Captain Peel's Naval Brigade in India, received two medals, and was made a lienfcenant in 1861. At the general election of 1865 Lord Arthur Pelham Clintoa was returned without opposition for Newark, in oonjnnotion with Mr. Grosvenor Hodgkinson. He described himself as a Liberal, bat voted against Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill of 1866, was opposed to the ballot, and to the total abolition of church rates. After his retirement from the Honee of Commons in 1868, his lordflkip passed through the Court of Baakrnptoy. Lord Arthur Clinton's name is, however, perhaps bettor known in connection with the case of Boulton and Park. A warrant had been issued against him. From a letter we add to these remarks it will be seen that he denied the troth of the charges of felony and misdemeanonr brought against him.- There may be people who will discredit his assertions, but however that may be the last words of a dying man are worthy of ions aooeptanoe, and now that he hat gone to hi* long home Jet us at least follow out that apt old quotation — U D$ mortwis nil niti bonum. Mr. Roberta, bis lordship's solicitor, has sent the two letters for publication ; one from Mr. Boberts is of no moment, the other is from LordClinton. He says : In the extraordinary position in which I find myself placed, and from the peculiar course adopted by the Crown in this matter, I feel jastiued in asking for the insertion of this letter in your journal. I am now, as I have hitherto been, anxious to give the most unequivocal denial to the accusations whioh have been made against ne ; and I most earnestly beg the publio to suspend its judgment until the full investigation of a publio trial has cleared away and explained the oiroumstanoes of suspicion alleged against me. I pledge myself to surrender on the trial at the Central Criminal Conrt on the day appointed, as I am deaizons of oonrting the fullest possible inquiry, being conscious that the greater the light whioh can be thrown on this unfortunate case the dearer will be my exculpation. I am now, and have been for some time past, prostrate on a bed of siokness, or I would, ere this, have surrendered to the warrant and submitted myself to the authority of the court. I hav« instructed my solicitor to retain the services of counsel to represent me on my trial, when I shall clearly and honestly show that nothing can be laid to my charge other than the foolish oontinuanoe of the impersonation of theatrical oharaoters, whioh arose from a simple frolio in whiok I permittee^ .myself to become an aotor. It would ill become me to animadvert upon the course the proseoution has deemed fit to pursue in silencing, by including in the indictments, those who could otherwise throw light upon the case — that I leave to my counsel and advisers on the fitting occasion, and to the common sense of the community, whose calmer judgment cannot possibly exert itself until the mists of prejudice naturally excited by the enormity of the offence oharged against me, shall have been dispelled by the full light of a free and impartial trial.— I am, <to. June, 1870.