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SCOTCH MAR MAO E. HOUSE OF LORDS,—Mar '7. Item AGAINST RED ; lITHSRWISI REID AGAINST JUNO. Raffia ease George Reid, Eq. of Ratho Hank, near Edin burgh, was the appellant, end Mrs. Jean Reid. otherwise Laing, was the respondent ; and the question was, whether the parties did or did not stand towards each other in the re lation of husband and wife ? The Judges in Scotland had unanimously decided this question in the affirmative. In pet:gland, Marriage is equally valid, whether the en gagement be entered into in a regular or irregular form.— If the marriage be irregular, the celebrator and witnesses are liable to certi•in penalties ; but the marriage is not less valid, if it can be proved that the parties have mutually given the consensus ee pressenti in wirstrinsonisse. The circumstances of the present ease, as stated on the part of the respondent, Were as follows :—Her father, Alexander Laing. was employed in country labour by the appellant, Mr. Reid. The respowlent was reared in her father's house. and was distinguished by the notice of the appellant even a hen she was at school. She was born the 10th Nov. 1759, and about 19412 was engaged as a servant in the house of the appellant ; and soon afterwards he began to talk to her of marriage. Mr. 'arid (it is alleged was much under the Influence of his mother. sisters, and other religions, and also (per haps) extremely alive to public opinion. He was tippet heusive of " The world's dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can hear." Be was, therefore. extremely 'nettles to conceal his attach meat to the respondent; but he constantly flattered himself, and her. that he would one day come boldly forward and avow his engagements. It is not wonderful, that is 'he re lative sitnetion of the parties, be should have gained such an ateendanry ov .r her mind, as in all respects to influence her coael:et. Ile was more than 10 years older than herself; ihe vl , in possession of a clear landed estate worth 60 or C0.040€.; he had the address. the eylucation. an I manners of a ge.itleman, added to a pre rasing appearance. Hence he easily took possession oft end of the respondent when it emerging out of childhood:a 'from that time she was led to regard herself as the destine wife of a gentleman of re eppetabiiity. No human beinkever entertained a suspicion that she tided in a manner unworthy of this destination.— Ninwitlistandin o n nil his tuitions. Mr. Reid was unable to tal'y to conceal his attentions to her. These attentions were noticed by his near relations; and the consequence was, that the respondent quitted Mr..R.iii's house, and engaged ht !NW as servant in the family of Me. M'Knight, in the im mediate neighbourhood. She remained there six months.— During that time Mr. Reid kept up his communication with ber by many private meetings, anti by letters. On keying Mr. M'Enight's house the respondent went to her father's house.aind remained sue months: during the whole of this period the parties had frequent meetings. They also se cretly carried on a written correspondence, but he was stint ennble to come to a determination to : inter into a public marriage. Ile represented to her thatitairtstin circumstances rendered this inconvenient : she resolred4herefore to engage herself as a servant in Edinburgh. a obtained a situa tion with Mrs. Watson in Slope-sir burgh. It is to be observed, that Mr. Reid's estate o -bank is at the distance of between six and seven mile m Edinburgh. When the period approached at which e respondent was to remove to Erlinburisit. the appellant expressed great anx iety to secure the respondent to himself by moquel write declaration of marrisqe. In one of his letters her with a copy of the declaration, which he eDt write. The parties afterwards met, and exchanged mi rail. 'no( marriage holograph, that is, in the) et rit ing respectively. That which the appellant the respondent is thus expressed :—." I hereby a lc ir, ri faithful,* kind, and en affectionate hut on conditions you are the same to me; and I fm to show this :o no person, and to make it known lehaterer, without your consent. (Signed) Clem A holograph writing to the sem affect was give Feiiail" by I%z:respondent. When the document Mel delivered to the respondent, there was no , to it. 7.. a respondent airy@ she desirad Mr. Rei but hr said it was unnecessary. and that she in herself. whi: h was immediately done. Mr. Rt. they were married persons, requested that the &taut(' be consummated : and accordingly it it s' he had, on the 4th November, conjugal interconr respondent in a new house upon his property. awl then been inhabited. although it was partly furni The respondent, it Martinmas (11th Nov.) I Into the sera ice of Mrs. Watson, where she rem: year and a half; during all that time Mr. iteii utmost attention to her, calling every week he and writing to her often two or three times in I as many days. The respondent, on Whitanday ISI (as tl sons were stated by the appellant :exist went into the serviced Mr. t.arfrae rk burgh. Mr. Carfrae's family re tat Watering-place, nine miles fro a 9.1 11 iiti nine repeated] Queensfe he 1 dteeing the rtspon , they g wro , e. ,} other once a we e respond ained ',nation vine months; she left Mr. rfrae's r of the death of her father. While with r with, whom she remained till Whitsunday w Co. ,147, t ea 11 4 11, the parties ha ea•iii other daily. On' !ring for mother's house , the respondent went tot service of Mrs. Kerr, of Wll oodhu, near Lhtlkeitc here she rem in:in d six months. During this period aurae Partici in t several times, - and they carried on a correspondence by levers as before. The respondent. at Martinmas (11th November) 1811; went into the service of :VW. Congalton, in Castlestreet i Eiinhorgh, with whomil remained for two years. Mr. 1 1 .iil came to the Is freqnently, and they saw each other almost every iv At his request, slie•ent at Martinmas 1813 into the service of the family . Robert Billies, Esq. Advo este, Edinburgh, where rili present is. Tire same in tercour•e, however. mid i , after the respondent en tered into the service of hip. Billies. The multitude of private meetings between the pat ties (it may well be supported) did nut pass without those endearments which were sanctioned by.their so lemn i ngagements, and they occasionally passed whole nights toga•ther. The appellant frequently found his way, at late hours, to the apartments in which the respon dem slept, and at rinies..they met in woods in the coun try. At length the respondent was led to urge that an end should be put to , the paystery under which the par ties had acted. Several unsatisftelory meetings took place, at which he still wished to delay a public avowal of marriage; the consequence was, that a deelarator of marriage arms raised in the Consittorial Court, Edin burgh. Against this action two defences were stated :-Ist. that there is no proof of a consensus de presenti in tna iritnoniutn, and that the correspondence and mutual de 'clarations amount only to a mere promise of marriage de jiituro; and, tiny, it was asserted, that although a promise of marriage, had no doubt been made, yet that is itiguthcient, as it was said that there was no proof of copultror conenbitus between the parties. 1 The respundrio produced all Mr. Reid's letters tint -bail been preserved by her, amounting in number to shoot two hundred. 'ln o witnessis were examined, and thereupon this in- Pt-locator, or sentence, was unanimously pronounced by the Cominission.is—" The Commissioners find the arts, &c. proved relevant to infer a marriage betwixt the pursuer and defender, and jiad them husband and retie." A Bill of Adyoration (a sort of appeal) was hereup on presented by Mr. H. to the Court of Session • and it was at length brought to a hearing before the Co l urt of the Second Division, the whole Eve inner-house Juilgrae ` ''` being previa. Four slated, that the ease wits attended With no sort of difficulty ; that some argument might be made, whether the-expressions amount in strictness to a enraient de presenli. or only to a promise of marriage; and that if fhe qnestion rested th;re, it might, perhaps, be proper to allow farther discussion ; but that this GAS • ~' THE STATESMAN. unnecenary, benne, from the evidence, it was impossi ble to doubt the fact, that matrimonial intercourse had occurred between the parties; and, therefore% there was here proof of marriage, constituted by a promise of mar riage, topule embsegareste. One Judge on this occasion stated, that be Ives not convinced concerning the exist- NICP of matrimonial intercourse; but the matter being again brought before the Court (on petition) the 9th of September following,wben the eause came to be ad vised,th e Judge, who had formerly dissented from the opinion or his Brethren, now stated. that his own,opin ion wasalteredi and that his Lordship now entirely concurred with the rest of tAe Court; and on the 20th of November, 1819, the Court of Session unanimously confirmed the interlo cutor of the Commissary Court, and pronounced the judgment, which was the subject of the present appeal. On the part of Mr. Reid, it was contended before the House of Lords, as it bad been in the Courts below, that neither party considered the documents exchanged between them as expressive of any thing more than a promise or intention to marry; and though Mr. Reid ad mitted that at some of his private meetings with the re spondent he bad taken some slight freedoms with her ; he positively denied that he ever had any enjoyment of her person. _ _ _ After the hearing of Counsel (Mr. Monerieff for the respondent, and Dr. LUSHINGTON for the sppejliabt.r . the further heating of this appeal was postpotfed2 Friday. .!: HORRID CI RCUMSTANCE. (ABRIDGED FROM THE DORY GATETTR.) _ _ _ On Saturday morning (the 3d instant) this town was thrown into a state of alarm and agitation, from a report that a murder and suicide bad been committed in the night, at a house in the School-hall-lane. We found; on inquiry, that a man named John Spring., who bad foe some months been cohabiting with a young woman„oue Mary Gooch, had procured poison for their mutual de struction; that they had taken it at the same time ; but that only the girl had fallen a victim, and the man had subsequently cut his throat, but was still alive. The pro per authorities having received notice•of the dreadful oc currence, the body of the deceased wasaiemoved to the Bridewell, in the market, and a Coroner's Inquest imme diately summoned. The following it the most, if not the only material part of the examinatiotz. The evidence of Spring being deemed admissible, the Jury went to his house, where be still lies, and be de posed as follows : - - - - 1 - a John Spring said that be knew Mary Gooch, the de used ; that he was present with her when she died ; that (peal about seven o'clock On Friday morning; that ', ,tria not die in agony; that on the Wednesday evening th Iticksed and witness came to an agreement to boy atilliQ liedanum to take together, that they might both be ftwindllead together in 'the same bed; that on the Thnrsdsy morning he (the witness)weut to *chemist's li b aud houllit some laudanum ; think four ounces ;he purchased it at Mr. Bildwin's at after he bought the - -.rah Mr. Mon in in his break to the • and Mountain _ Mountain his use for it ; that your heart has ___:.;" that she got deceased said, "you tied, " Oh, that 1 she said, " have - buy it with;" half-pence ;" the de la oranges with for thew ;" that ith two oranges; took two wine t the box, and half into one ie kept herself, deceased said, ; 'vitness said, it ; let us turn witness turned - contents of the ianum the deceased , ttle 1" Witness she said, " she that he threw deceased had wipeit lm the privy ; the they both went got out of bed to it, and drew , " now we shall between two how she came deceased said, " that not signify;" that the averse together about differ ent things, till about eight o'cloilt ; she said she had sent her gown to her aunt's, and that the money came from her ; the laudanum did . . any e ff ect till about two, she then began to sleep; ' mess was sick about four, and the deceased was aw AO that time ; the de ceased was not sick at all, and fnto a sound sleep at six; the witness awoke her between six and seven, the deceased then said, " how large your eyes look ;" wit ness then said to, " Mary, I am afraid my laudanum will take no effect ;" the deceased said, " 0 . : dear, if I die without you and you are taken before a coart Ofjasti^e. I shall not die easy ;" witness told her she migh),, be quite happy, fr: if it did not take effect, he would:wet up and buy sow, that would, as be would die with her; the deceased said, " My dear, pray give me that blue muslin handkerchief, that I may bare it my hand when I die; pray don't you take any thing, but let,' die and you will get over it:" she then laid h shoulder of the witness and died almost the body began to grow cold by the '' from the town, about half-past eight • had been in a sad state of mind ever her; that she always appeared to wish a:tetnpted to destroy herself before wit( at a fair; the deceased had told him' klisence, attempted to 'hang herself that the second time was a month ceased came in from the town in an nutria, written poison, he went • b hlr. hfondrain in his she furnished f'oll, to and tb Farnham and back ; greeted her to sat en down gate; that he gave itt nd said uld have'no more use mutual deela- wit e came I ary Gooch said, "yc rid own hand• f d.; it delivered to . , y ou 11* not bought it far me;' . •. ~,L . ,* .. 's pocket; the deceit f engage to be ishand to you, 3 . se " 1 , 1 6 v, witness replied e take ht . ' sh urther engage en to nobod 1 , ‘ gave you to mace Rem `F, n some half-pen ten to the a .., . hale sense 4 It now qu. 1. "`• would send for 41. ta en . returned with ieid t 3 ; that she to ;4 might her's on Reid insi ng 1 "",- 4 the marrl ge tit ... , she poured I it alleged t t giasi,;, n• , ne glass she nurse with the I , ' ' • e. • nem; the t Ic . • - • ' which had not " ...1.11.4. 0 4 " er's hands; .nished. • .... ..lt I not take MS, entered . ' iuf"' ' !'' 4 ' , deceased and i tained for one tb . i s ro,eifils nth' . 44 : . drank the ci id showed the it sirs if ter ha d a • the laudanun was in town. ," u th hat a we ' i ' the bottle the course of "he wen •o a row it away; st the same rea- Id, in the ti , wipe •p ' the glasses;' 1 t for secrecy) bottle into the priev,'and tlpt the detest l k- lace , qie- g lasses bv the time he ca n& bark from sed said, " let us go to bed ;" that thl /neenster" \ together ; the deceased afterwards i qtr; and • • to pull) aced a chair against the door to faster m . ndow blinds; the deceased then said,' wrotq . , , ned fh th - ..• nappy . together ; " this u•as 4 aon account . . three o clock ;he ass he deceased I , mothe i , money she had given 4 ,; the deceas4 hi , 15th ty) g t Ilsof no congequence, and a' npt signi „,- , 4 „..,., deceased and the witness coheersedltogethe ... LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 7. Till KING V. JOHN ITUROBSS. This defendant, a man In a respectable situation of life, was convicted at the sittings after Michaelmas Term. in London, of indecently exposing his person in Mournelik. When he was brought up for judgment in Hilary Term, affi davits were put in disclosing that he was subject to a deter ' initiation of blood to the head, which SOrnetiMeS produced a traporery suspension of his faculties; that immediately before the melancholy occurrence in question, he had been nnit journey of I hundred miles. and had been five nights without rest; and that he had borne an unblemished character. The case then stood over in order that the pro secutors might make inquiry into these circumstances, anti consider whether they would pray for judgment. Mr. COMMON SgaGEANT now prayed the_ judgment of the Court, and put In an affidavit of the Lord Mayor's clerk, who took the defendant's examination at the Mansion-house, to show that the defence he then made proved that he was not destitute of reason. Mr. ADOLPHUS shortly alluded to those topics of com passion which the affidavits on the part of the defendant suggested. The Cover, adverting to the infirm state of the defend ant's health, and to those mitigating circumstances which led them to hope that some degree of alienation of mind had 41Mvailed, sentenced him, to be imprisoned in the house of !ruction In Giltspur.street for six weeks. V .. . ' I — COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—May 7. El-PARTS ROOM/a D. . Sergeant PELL having obtained a rule to show cause why the Warden of the Fleet prison should not refund tae sure of 11. les.„ which he had illegally received from the ap plicant, who stated upon affidavit that he had been dis charged from twelve actions, and for each discharge the Warden had taken a fee of 2s. Od. Mr Sergeant VAUGHAN showed cause againft the role. He said the fees which had been thus demanded were not received by the Warden, but were part of the fees of office due to the clerk of the papers in the prison, for entering the discharges. The Warden made an affidavit, stating that the complainant was discharged from thirteen actions, by an or der of the Court for the Relief of Insolvent ebtors, ill eleven of which detainers had been lodged against him : and from 'a warrant for en assault, "litlxlch had been left at the gate. The affidavit also stated, that so far back as 1727. the fee of 2s. (id. was devermtuetkitudile. Court to be due to the clerk of the papers.. .:-.).-. .1 1: The COURT interrupted thrtLearned Sergeant to say, that the only question was as to 'the number of the discharges from action.s on which detainers bad been lodged against the applicant. Mr. Sergeant VAVOMAN said, he was discharged from 19 civil actions, exclusive of the detainer for the assault. The Warden had therefore taken less than the order of 1727 en titled him to. Mr. Sergeant Pain, on the other side, said he did not mean to urge pay thing agettist the warden personally, who was undoubtedly n very -respectable officer. There might have been some mistake on this subject. A table of fees was hung up in that prison, and one item contained in that table was 7s. .td. fur the discharge of a prisoner; and the question now was whether an additional charge of 2s. ed. was to be demanded for the same purpose. 'Tills fee was not mentioned in the table, and the statute Geo. 11. peremp torily requiriv a table of all fees to be taken In the prison to be hong up in a conspicuous part of it, no fee not inserted in such tabtetould he legally claimed. The CuuaT desired that the table of fees should be hand ed up. Mr. Brown said he had not the table in Court. There were two, one containing the fees to be taken by the ward en. and the other those to be taken by the clerk of the papers. The Count . then said, they must see these tables before they pronounced their decision. Tine LORD CHIEF Jus•rtce said that whatever might be the ultimate decieion of the Court in this case, lie felt himself bound in justice to the warden to state, that lie would not have 41,o:barged hi, duty if he bail not claimed those fees, sanctioned as they were by an order of the inslges of this Court, which order had been acted upon for a period of Itft years. The warden was the trustee of tlistse persons who should in the course and or.ler of time an led him in his present situation, and it was his duty I st. to ke care that none of the fees of that o ffi ce should be oitgh any neglect of his. It was also due to the • making the complaint to say,.that the question ht . before the Court in a very proper manner, no I *q being made against the warden personally. " 0 With re to this gentleman (the warder,) lie wished .. bl + too that when he (the Chief:Justice) concurred iikhis piiintetent to his present office, he had not (to liirknowledge) even seen him ; but he was induced to du so by the universal voice of approbition raised in his favour when he filled another situation: of great difficul ty, and particularly at a period of *tailor delicacy. It bad been said that there never was a time " When the steel'd gaoler was the friend of man :" but Mr.-Brown Ic i l t g o tA t aiones and on all occasions, however painful, •mself the friend of man. It was by lilt chaiictertin-this respect that he (the Lord ChiefJusticekwas induced to concur in his presrut ap pointment ; Rd he could nor resist the present oppor tunity of sayingliese few woks itnestlmcmy of his ad miration of his buina e. nd upright conduct. The case then at? . . i i , 'the production of the ta ble of fees. 4-7. : 1 I IN THE MAT 0 • ARAM AND BROOKS. The case s ' . to the Prothonotary, who was dir. . , ,o, `lrt. • TL ' • , ewgate. I .....—,.....i....., • ~1• ~ kOLICE. mind ; that about twelve at night she ap, atm ._ linen line, pinned her cap over her head, and went out of the house taking a small chair with her, and left the' door open; the witness followed her; deceased hail one end of a rope about her neck ; did not see her tie the rope about her neck, but confessed tying it on in the room • the deceased was about to throw the rope over the arm Of an apple tree, when he overtook her and brought her in, and took the rope from her. The deceased. :all Wednesday evaiing, u as very anxious to die, and wished witness to die nit!' her and on Thursday she expressed a desire that they should both die together. Th'e te . ness has known the deceased ever since Mich* Bury hair; the deceased had been very anxious a the payment of the half-year's et ; the witnss sai I would go to his friends and g e t s it deceased e slid, " If you go away. I shall ha afraid that you will not come bark again;' that it was not for want that they coin mined the act ; it has: been in contemplation some time. The Jury retired somewhat more than half en hone; and, on their return, delivered their verdict--" Mary Gooch, bring of sound mind, took laudanum to cause her death, procured at her request by John Spring, and that she died—Felo de se." About midnillit the remains of the wretched woman were interred iu the etoss-road, at the end of Itisbygate street. Bow-rrairr.—Yesterday. Mr. Wm. Porknell, the keeper of an oyster shop in tiit. Martin's-lane. was brodght up by Stowell, nne of the constables of the office, to answer to the complaint.of Thomas Archer, Esq. of Stafford-place, Pim lico, for having been guilty of wanton cruelty to a dog. per stated, that as he was passing along St. Mar 't half en hour before, he saw the defendant water from some lobsters which he had When he had done this, he took up the yes he hot water, and poured its contents upon a was approaching him at the moment. The RIM dreadfully on its head and hack, ran as it was mad, and whined and iy, to the indignation of the ,ev • on expressed themselves in io e at to retreat speedily to as premisese use had not the smallest done design Ardinied that it was tione wantonly, and said he did not see tee dog when he threw out the water. It was eatireiy accident% ex , ' • • Mr. Mtn mu sa. and Mr. Becarrr. the Sitting Magistrates, arid, they could entertnig no doubt that the act was one of wilful and wanton' ruelly,•and it was such a one as deserved the infliction of the severest penalties awarded by the sta tute. Woo perusing, however, the preamble of the Act of Parlia.ffent. a doubt arose. as to whether cruelty to dogs came within its enactments; and after. some discussion the ease was dismissed. Another application was made fur proceedings against 'the servant of a poulterer of the name of Harwood, is l'ottenbam-rourt-road, by a gentleman named Gardiner, raiding at No. 3117, Strund, an Artist, who stated that he was pa s sing by the shop, ands- vale one of his men' take a live fowl, anti after sliglelly twisting its neck, barely sufficient va,, stun it, placed it betweenhis knees, and began plucki4 the large feathers from the wings. The excessive pain caused the poor thing to writhe so violently, that he caul.l with great dilhcnity hold it : he, however, continued this species of torture until the bird was nearly divested of all its feathers, when he threw it forcibly upon the grounl, and it still possessed so much life as to get upon its legs, and attempted to to walk. Mr. Gardiner remonstrated with the men, and begged of him, if :le had any humanity at alt, to kill the fowl at once. This he refused to do, and behaved in . .~ T L.~~ J Tr~~w_ . _ -_-_ a very insolent and abusive manner, telling Mr. (lard'. ner to mind his own business, or he would pull some of his feathers out. Mr. Gardiner persisted in seeing the master, who, on the affair being related to him, coolly remarked that the man ha I done very properly, as the genera practice in the trade was to pluck the fowls in a similar manlier, as they had a much better appearance for sale than if plucked after they were dead. The Magistrate, for the same reason as in the preced ing case, deal-nod i tterfering. MARLBORciOH-STKEET.—Yesterday Fro:mei:and Alan Deneniels, father and son, were bronzlit to this Office by %Vides and (Amelia, the officers. Wales stated that the, fellowerl the prisoners through Hyde Park and along Oxford -street, and saw them repeatedly drop pieces of paper in the way of several Ladies who were passing._ At length the officers seized them, and secured one of those papers in the father's hand, which he made evert. effort to destroy; the contents of these papers were of the most shameful and indecent nature. On searching their persons, upwards of thirty letters were found, con taining petitions for pecuniary relief addressed to var;- ous Noblemen and Gentlemen, and also a list of siii.- scriptions, containing the names of the Earl of Aber deen, Cord Stanley, LorJ Sattoun, &c. The butlers of the two former Peers attended, and recognised t e younger prisoner as having come with letters of this de scription, and receiverl money. When the elder prisoner was asked to give some ac count of himself, lie said that his family, which is very respectable, was weal known to Sir Edmund Antrobus-- that lie had formerly been a cabinet-maker in tlic Strand, hut failed in business. He had afterwards kept a school, but for a considerabl • time past he has hero chiefly em ployed at most of the private burying-grounds in the metropolis, to read the burial service over the dead.— He has buried, in the course of his practice, upwart:: of two thousand persons, and received for each grown per son nin-pence, and for each child sixpence. The friends of the deceased never knew hut he was a Clergy. mai, as he always wore a gown ou those occasions. Mr. the Magistrate, said they were bolt highly deserving of punishment; but as lie could not sell sepa. rate their guilt, and as nu doubt the son acted under the Whence of the father, he would at pros-nt discharge them both ; brit he'lloperl, when it became known to too Ecclesiastical Potters that the elder prison rr had pri sinned to officiate as a Clergyman of the Church of En4land, proper ptuteedings would be taken agtintt him. The Sessions of the Peaceful. Middlesex begin at the Ses sions-house on Clerlenwell-green, on Tuesday next, the 13th instant. Itasioved. or PRISONERS.—This day the prisoners who stand committed on charges of felony. will be rem"rad from the several goals in London and Middlesex, to Ness - gate. preparatory to taking their trials at Justice Halt, in the Old Bailey, where the Sessions commence ou Wednes day next. John Gordon, tailor, who died lately at East Tern , ments of Breclein, in the Nil year of his aze, has left a daughter affected in a very reinarksble manner with species of 1 -.lcsii-jaw. The unfortunate snfferer can take no sustenance whatever but once in 24 hours.— About eight o'clock in the evening she, can generally, fur the space of half an hour, open her ).ivs, eat and drink, and talk se ith freedom, after which interval she fails into her former state. Tuesday night,* shopman to Mr. Forbes. linen-draper, in Tottenham Court-road, put a night-cap on a barber's block, which he kid in the maid-servant's bed; the maid going to bad last of the family, and seeing toe appearance of a man's head in her bed, was so frightened that she ile;pped the can dle, which set tire to the sheets, and the blaze cominunimeed to her gown and apron. She ran down stairs In Haines, and her cries alarmed the family, who hastened to her assistance and extingui-hed the fire in her clothes by rolthig her le a carpet, and throwing a pail full of water over her .; they then ran up stairs, and found the room nil in flames; with the assistance of seine pails rull of water they suc.;mded in putting out the tire, but not before the bed and bedding and principal part of the furniture were destroyed. The unfor tunate girl was much burned in the face and hands. COUON ert's iNQUIESTS.—An Inquest was held yester day afternoon at the Lord Somers' Arms, Grenville•stre,t, Sotners'-town, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mr. George Carr, many years Prompter of Drury-lane Theatre. It appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday, about 12 o'clock, Mr. P.tle don, a neigh boor, was sent for to Mr. Carr's house, No. 11, Sydney street, Somers'oown, as Mr. C. was very ill. Just as Mr. Paleston had got to the house, Mr. Carr diet!. Mr. lVat ford, a surgeon, was sent for, and he attempted to bleed Lim ; but it was of no avail. The deceased had been un well for some time, hut he hail been out cn Friday. Ver dict—Died by the 'Visitation of Lion. The deceased has left a wife and 14 children. An Inquisition was also taken yesterday evening before T. it:tirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thos. Elliott, Esq. a gentleman of forum?, and a great patron of the prize ring sports, the turf,&c. The hilliest was held at the house of the deceased, 39, Hunter -street, Brunswick-iquare. Thomas Spencer, footman to the deceased, stated, that Lis master went to bed between one and two o'clock, on Tuesday night, and about eight o'clock a person called, asked if Mr. Elliott was within, and acne cerensonie fol lowed him up stairs into the gentleman's bed-room, and be was soon followed by another. These were a Sheriffs officer and his aid-de-camp. They soon after retired below, and Mr. Elliott gave witness directions to proem . * a pen and ink for them, to give a discharge to a writ of 331. In a short time after, witness heard the report of a pistol, and he found his master had shot himself on the left side of the abdomen with a horse pistol, which, from excPpive charge, had nearly forced the lock off. John Evans, surgeon, stated, that he was called in soon after eight o'clock yesterday morning ; he found the deceased dead, but warm, reclining in a chair, with his shirt on only. There was *considerable wound and laceration on the lower part of the stomach, the effect of a discharge of shot. The charge passed through the heart and the lungs, end must have caused instantane ' ous death. 'File pistol hid three or four yards from the body, and there were a shot belt and powder flask upon the bed. Mary IVeston had lived a year and a half in the ser vice of the deceased. He was subject to pains in the head, and did not seem to know what he did or said. — He used leeches upon his temples, and medicines agree able to his own fancy. He had been worse since a recent shock wising from the death of his mother; after which lie kept his bed-room, and said every thing seamed to be going wrong. He hail lately been at Brighton, but got worse. lla drank freely, and was irritable. Witness had often put razors and other in struments of destruction out of his nay, fearing he would kill himself. His skull was fractured when a youth. The executor to the will of the father of the decease!, proved, that deceit . ed was not of sane mind ; he had been coerced formerly by a sirait waistcoat when younger, and had been twice under the care of a keeper. The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict or Insanity. COAL MARKET, M*v 7. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price. 2t4 NeWeß9.le lB Stu. tad. to 435. a UI Sunderland Ai Mo. Od. to &Is. 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