The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-28 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

Flt MCIVTII, Aro. 25.—Arrived the Four Friends, Roherm ;
and Ilro.here, Jenkins, from Landon; Norway Rock, D+ltisug,
from kmarsound ; Active. ICritlnke, ritlß3 Jersey; and A Mine°.
Parker+, from Bhms. Sailed the Active, Charlton; and Prince
Regent, King, for the Sandwich hilands ; Success, Bow, for
Lorton ; flope's Anchor, Pine+, for Longttound.
soul. tr, Aut.. 23.—Arrived the Susanna., Wilhelmina,
front Bantaie : and Triumvirate. Green, front Petersburgb.
I'ouvawouT)l, Attu. :16.—Sailed the Joseph (;rem, tranlport,
fr. Plymouth. Oftthe port, the Beliv.a, WilJgome, from Dense-
rara.—nniled 13th July.
011AVICS17ND, 26. Arrived the !lope. Pair,
from flarlingen
Union, Minter, from Dieppe ; Henry 11'illiant, %Fart, front Cron.
adult; BYfllient, Wilson, from lain; Sea Nymph, Butrow+, from
Naples: Colmar, Peterson, from Colic ; Omit Eggur,
from Tonningen ; (loud Intent, Cowan,. from Ilainburgh ; Re-
liance, Nicholson, from ditto; and several others, names unknown.
Sailed the John and Marv. Wood, for Tenerilfe ; Christopher,
Knight, for laliramield ; Mary Ann, Proctor, from Ilamburgh ;
Thetis, Reed, for ditto; loud Cramtume, Urquhart, for Ilalifax ;
concord, flicks, fee Santa Cruz; ‘Vellingutn, Allen, for Jamaica;
Juno, Stre, for liibraltut Jane, Bullock, for 11norto-
LIVTSPOOL, Are. +hip', one brig, and one snow
were oiliest evening at seven. The following vessels arrived hero'
vosterdav :—The William lkathbone, Baldwin, from Africa ;
I•Pstets, rhanean, Jamaica ; Commerce, Patterson, Quebec; Brun+.l
with. Teserhale, Rica: Endrnft, Spehnan, Belfast: Forth, OS.
bourne, Dublin; Maria, Williams; Eliza, Lovereign ; and Friends,
fram 1;ork
CALAIS, A mo. Aurora, Cavan, from Dantrie. fort
Bum°. Ayres. wits thriven on shore last night. nearllmvelines,
a7.d it i• feand will be entirely lost, her hold being nearly full oil
wrier. Crew Paved. —The Jit+tiee, Wileker, from Memel. for
Port+tnocth, is on shore, off Vraltinn, and a total wreck. Crew
tea rd.
Pt f.LAV. Attn. 12.—The fAulthourrn, Kmok, veiled from heneel
10th inst. for I,oorion, and put bark last night, with her niainioast
broken, having encountered a heavy gale.
The. Pilgrim wiled front Camper-11y 15th May, for Braril, and
has not since been heard of.
TIIIIFE F'ERSOYN POIN/INED Rr EATING ITHAT
THEY SUPPOSE') Tf" NK 311JSIIROolifS.

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On Thursday. the 10th inst. a man and his wife, whose names
were Jusppli anti 31argaretta 'Wikon, strived in March in the Isle
Ad Mr, from St. ire,. and applied to the overseer of the maw for
money to par their loiteings, who gave them lid. fur that purpose.
They went to a lo•licing.house kept by a person named !rm.
liiaby, anti asked for a satutypsui to stew some muelirootne fur their
supper. Whilst in the art of preparing them, the woman of the
house observed, •` they were net wuahrooms, but what she and her
neigh • ours relied toad.nnols." The female, sho was a French.
woman, said. "they Were thampignons, and what were commonly
eaten in her country " and prepared them for supper accordingly.
After stewini, for some time, they were put into a dish, and Wil-
pan and his wife began la eat of them. An Irishman, who was
bulging in the new house, was induced to taste them, and. ate
mama a spoonful ; a daughter el Ginby's (aged about I). took
and tar a saucer full. The woman of the house also tasted them ;
elle said she tl glit they were very sweet, and recommended a
little pepper, and some flour to thicken them with, which she gave
for fist maltase. The poor creatures, hungry, and tineenscioue of
the deadly nature of their food, ate near two (VOWS of the stew, and
vent to bed about sine o'cleck. They slept in the same room with
the Irishman. After being in bed shout three hours, they were
seised with a violent retching, which continued throughout the
night, and csali seven o'clock the next wonting, when they were
*et seen by Mrs.lllitiby ; they were in a truly deplorable situation,
in excruciating agony, aril dreadfully exhausted. A surgeon was
a-nt for, who, upon learning arliat they had eaten the nightbzfore,
fermented to see the remelt:der, and then had no doubt they were
offering under the effects produced by their eating poisonouslonei.
All necessary means were used for their recovery. but they lan.
guiebed atoll Saturday afternoon, when both expired within two
hours of each other, the man dying at two and the woman at four
o'clock
Theesme day inquisitions were taken on view of the bodies by Mr.
Pratt, of March, one of the Coroners for the bile of Fly, when the
oboes particulars appeared in evidence, and the Jury returned a
ytydiet that the deceased " died of cholera morbus, occasioned by
eating poismons fungi, i-hich they mistook for mushrooms."
epon the Cormier tied Jury, attended by Mr. eitiledge,stirc,ren,
gnarl* to view the bodies of the deceased persons, their attention
Was drawn to Hebeent Ginhy, the daughter of the keeper of the
ludeing.houtte, who lay upon a heti in an alarming and distressed
situation ; she had, as above oliserveil, reirtaken of the stew, but
did'aot *hew any dangt•rona eyntwona of disease until Saturday,
when her parents were so infatuated as not to believe that she we.
ill bi consequence of whet she had eaten, that they never availed
thewaelvesof the assistaraeof 91r. Culledge (although he was mar,
time. tinder the same roof in attendance upon Wily= and his wife)
until it was past the power of medicine to give any relief. The un-
fortunate girl languished until Sunday naming at nine o'clock.
when she expired in the most &mita agony. The sante tiny an
11111110 WA, taken before Mr. Pratt, and a verdict returned as in
the former iratariets.
Joseph Wilier awl his wife were complete strangers in the town
of March ; they informed Mr. Grounds and 111 r. Elliot. the over.
seers, that they were on their way front Knightsbridge to Hull,
where the man was born and bail a brother living ; that he was an
oil•eloth painter by trade. and had been a moldier at d prisoner in
Prance, where he married his wife. A certificate of nuirriage was
Sound in their possession, but so much mutilated as to render it
illegible•—easaltei4ge Chrouirle.