The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-22 00:00:00

CORONER'S VESTS.

Saturday a Coroner's Invest was held at the Ship
Govern, Mtllbauk, on the body of Sosainah
Humphries, a young lady who jilt out of a is ,at.
and was drowned, on Thursday evening, below
Clielsea,Reach.—M:. J. Sutler stated, that his
mother, the deceased, two whets, and himself, took
a bast for a party of pleasure, aed heviog spent
the afternoon at Battersea, they were coming home,
when the deceased suddenly fell overboard, and
immediately sunk. A gentleman, of the name of
Sparks, who was of the party, instantly leaped
into the water, but was unable to save her, .is she
never rose ; and the body was found the next morn-
ing by some bargemen. This statement was corro-
borated by other witneses. 'the deceased was a
fine young woman, 2i years of age, and was on a
visit from Kent to Mrs. Sutler, at Lambeth. She
was on the point of marriage with Mr. Sutler, whose
feelings may be better conceived than described.
Saturday, GEORGE HODSON, Esq. Coroner IT
Middlesex, held an Inquest en the body of Etizalse h
Woodcock, an unfortunate female, who was burned
to death on Thursday last. The Jury having -ll-
amined the body, which exhibited a dreadful spec-
tacle, the evidence was called in, by who:n it ap-
peared that the deceased was upwards of fifty, and
lodged in a garret, at No. 4, Lacellet-place, Bro.td-
street, Bloomsbury. On Thursday afternoou, a
thick smoke was observed to issue from the window
of her apartment, and she uttered loud screams.
An alarm being communicated, the master of the
house, Mr. Taylor, and a neighbour named Wallace, '
ran up stairs with water, and at their entrance into
the room, beheld the deceased writhing in tortures
on the floor, all in flames. With difficulty, they
extinguished the the from her clothes, and imme-
diately sent for a surgeon, who applied every rene-.
dy, but their endeavours proved ineffeftual ; her
arm was nearly cdosumed, and other parts the
body so scorched, that she languished in a state of
insensibility, till Ft iday morning, when she expired.
It is cnnjeauted ede set her clothes on fire, by lift-
ing off a satirepal, which was found near her, with
broth in it, that she had prepared for dinner. The
Jury found a verdia of—Arcreknial D•ath.

An Inquest was also held ontiieb;d7of a labour-
ing man, found dead on ThursdAy, in a saw fit,
the back of Russell-square. The deceased was dis-
covered by several workmen, with his head resting
on a stone. He was quite dea Aat the time, and no
one knew his name, or who !se %vat. There was to
mark of violence on the body, and the Jury returned
Died by the mild:on of God.

The price of Dollars has fallen three halfspence
each, in consequence of the recent detention of the
Spanish frigates. The present state of the Bullion
market affords a very favourable opportunity for
the lung-wanted silver coinage.
On Satui Jay last a Court Martial assembled in
Portsmouth garrison, for the trial of Captain BA
LOW. of the Worcester Militia. Ihe charges brought
against him were, " Disobedience of orders in ab-
senting himself without leave fmra the Dock-yard,
where he Was on guard r and bribery ;" he having
in an unguarded manner ofered a few shillings to
One a the porters to induce him to admit a female
companion into the yard after the gates were locked.
I he trial occupied the whole of Saturday, Monday,
:rod Thursday. The Court closed its proceedings
on Friday at two o'clock. The sentence will not be
Irn.orrn until it receives the saaais.a of His Meta.
Iv% approbation.,