The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-24 00:00:00

CORONERS" INQUESTS.

Dunmire t. riteriay, at noon, an Inquest was
held at the site of the Albany Arms, in the Albany road, Cam.
berweli, before C. J. JEst mere, Csq., on the body of t 'amain
Dennis Diller, aged let years, who out a period to his existence on
Monday last, by shooting himself through the head.
The Jury, alter tieing sworn, proceeded to the lamer of the de-
ceased. at No. 4, in the Albany Crescent, and viewed the body,
which had been moven from the limonite in which it was discovered
after the fatal act, an.l placed in a coffin. Some of the Jurymen,
who hail boon acquainlnl wilt the deceased in his lifetime, re-
marked that the fevtures had undergone very little change since
the catastrophe. The only viable appear.utee of the deceased
having come by a violent death was the closing of a quantity
of blood from the mouth. Captain Butler, it appeared, had re.
tired many yeara from the service, was living In the bosom of his
fatuity, and was greatly respected by these who were acquainted
with him.
Ilielsard Nottingham, Esq. the first witness examined, deposed
that lie had been for many years acquainted with the deceased and
his family. On Monday evening Lie, about helf.past 7 o'clock, he
called at the deceased's house, file the parpooe of taking tee with
the family. S)n approching the iron railings in front of the house,
lie was surprised upon axing the Captain standing there. ll'itness
expressed his surprise, saying, " Captain Butler, you should nut
be exposing yourself to the night air ; had you not better walk into
the house?' To this the deceased replied, that he twos ex-
tremely unwell, and that lie wished to retmuln there far a little
time. Witness here said, that on this occasion he perceived seine-
thing very extraordinary in the manner of the deceased, who sub-
sequently appeared not to know him ; and when witness men-
tinned his name, the deceased amid in a hurried tone, "Oh, aye,
it's you; Ina in and take tea, and I shall follow you imiuediately."
Witness went into the Mouse, and raw 'amain Butler's; daughter,
to whom he mentioned his fears respecting the state of mind
in which her father appeared. At this moment the deceased went
into the parlour, but W•O3 withdrew, saying that lie wanted to go
up stairs to his bedroom. In lea* than a minute after his departure.
witness, while sitting in the parlour, heard the report of a pistol ;
upon which he instantly ran up stairs to the front bedroom, and
saw Captain Butler lyitig stretched ow his back ea the bed, and a
pistol, which lead the appearance of having been recently discharged,
lying by his side. Motel was issuing frum his nose and mouth in
great quantities. The deceased. he added, appeared to be quite
dead. The witness then proceeded to state the dreadful affliction
into which the deceased's family were thrown in consequence of
the shocking event.
Wells, the Albany-road patrol, deposed, that on Monday I,
night, about half-past six o'clock, as he was going his consuls, in
passing Mr. Nortntes house, which is next to that of Captain !Sut-
ler, hr observed the teceesed come out of that gentleman's home.
1!• followed witness, and said, "is that you, Nl'ells ?" Witnens
replied In the affirmative. The Captain tleaus said, " Wells, have
you got a pinch or two of gunpowder about you ?" Witness told
lam that lie had not got any then about him, but that tie had
plenty at home. The deceasai desired him fetch to a little. IVitness
then proceeded on, and in about ten minutes afterwards the deceased
came to him and said, " why, you have forgot tile ; let me
have two pinches of powder ; it's only to clean my spy-glass with."
Witness went then and took about a tumble-fall of powder out of
his flask, and returned with It to the deceased, whinn he found
waiting for him at the railings in front of alehouse. The deceased,
on taking the powder, thanked him, and bid him good night.
(inc of the Jury here observed, that the duvraaed in all probabi-
lity was waiting tor the mrived of the patrol with the powder, when
the first witness mine up.
l'he patrol stated, that he was convinced that be did not give the
deceased as much powder as would take away life.
Mr. Nottingham said, Captain Butler always kept a loaded pis-
tol in his room, in case of an attack upon the house; it was proba-
ble that the powder lie had begged was foe the purpose of printing
this pistol.
111 r. Daley, a armrest, deposed, that te bad known the deceased
for many years, anti attended him latterly. The dcvemol, lie said,
was for the last four or five years labouring under a must painful
disease (steanguaryl, the agony front whicht he had no doubtpro-
dueed occasiotial aberrations of mind in the decetused. Ile was firmly
of opinion that it was during one of those paroxysms that the on.
fortunate gentleman destroyed himself. The Doctor than proceeded
to daaicribe the nature of the wouad which deprived the deceased of
life.

After whizh the Jury, without hesitation. returned a verdict, that
the deceased destroyed Matadi whilst labouring under a tit of tem-
porary derariNnient.

A Ill,ther inquest w;% hell at the sign of the Ship and Sun public
house. Wa!worth, on the had), of J. +.o Stonets.uti , a respectable
cheescinong, r, resi lin:: at No. 1, Itceltford-row, Walworth, who
dropped down dead a few days ago, *lnk in the act of washing
his hauls. _ _ _ . .

A female servant &poor% that on Titeular last the deceased
complained of a pain in the chest. She advised him to hare me-
dical adrift. In a short time afterwards the deceased came down
into the kitchen; still complained of pain, arid called for water to
waa!t hht hands. Witness, after having set a basin of water before
hini,vrent up stain, and on her return into the kitchen, after having
been absent but a few minutes, she found the deceased lying with
his head upon the demise, and the sleeves of his coat tucked up as
if he had been washing his hand•. the discovered that he was
then dead. _ .

A surgeon who examined tl:e body of the deceased, deposed that
he died of apoplexy. A ♦erdiet to that ellen was returned.

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ROBBERY 0? TIIE STIALIN4 Matt..—We understand
that parcels, containing Bank-notes to a considerable
amount, were stolen Itom the Stirling mail on Saturday, at
Kirklinton. The parcels were from the agents of Leith
Bank, at Callender, the Bank of Scotland at Stirling, and
the Commerciel Bank at Crief. The robbery is said to
have been effected by three men in a gig, and who kept
up with the mail fur some time. They stopped at the
same place, and while the guard had, fora few minutes,
gone into the house to deliver something in his charge, they
extracted the parcels. They have been traced to Edin-
burgh, but as yet eluded detection. The Glasgow Herald
of Monday gives the following account of the robbery:—
" While the guard of the wail coach from Stirling to
Edinburgh was engaged in his post Mike duty at Kirk-
Blum', out Saturday evening, there were abstracted from the
coach certain valuable parcels, which were under his
charge, and belonging to different Banks. It is said the
Rink of Scotland, the Commercial, and the Leith Banks,
will each sustain a serious loss by this robbers : it is re-
ported that the loss of the first of these Banks isg,4oo/.
The guard of the mail coach obs,rved a gig with two men
in it, to follow the coach from Linlithgow, and who are
suspected of having committed this robbery, as the gig was
not observed on the Edinburgh road afterwards ; it per-
haps returned towards Linlithgow.
DarALrt•l. ACCIDUNT.—A most melancholy occurrence
took place at the corner of Nassau-street, on Saturday
evening. a few minutes before eight o'clock. Mr. Doan,-
man, of Grafton-street, happ.mil to be 'teasing across the
footway at the mg! of Nassau-street, in Grafton-stmt, at
the moment when the Limerick mail coach was proceeding
at the usual rapid rate, front Dawson-street to the Post-
MSc... The uufortunate gentleman was instantly kneeled
down by the foremost horses, trothhn upon, and so severely
quill, that he died in the course of the evening. It is
said that the driver, disregarding the dreadful calamity
that had occurred, went on without stopping a moment,
making the least inquiry, or procuring or affording the
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TAR ARMY'.

D.:taeliments belonging to the 56th ((West Essex) 144
69th (2cl Nottingham), 31st (Huntingdonshire), du; 414
(Nlotiououtlishire Light Infantry), the 5 tth (West N
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folk), and the 77th (East Middlesex), .
will march this day, front Westminster,
and the Isle of Wight.
Detachments belonging to the 7th
Regiment of Dragoon uanls, the ad (the
Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and th
MIL) Regiment of Infantry arc ordered
Mg, from Westminster, or Bristol,
I rebut!.
A detachment belonging to the Royal
tiered to march this uwnting from IVoob
Detachments beloneitr; to the 24 (th
and the 5701 (West Middlesex), Regit
march this day from IVesttninster for CI
A detachment belonging to the 1I th 1
Dragoons will march this day from IVestiiiii
stone, where the depot of that corps is -'