The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-15 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF THE LATE BARON WOOD.

Yesterday morning t17"...-7e remains of Sir George Wood,
Knight, late one of the Barons of the Exchequer, were re-
moved from his late house in Bedford-square, for inter-
ment in the vault belonging to the Honourable Society of
the Middle Temple, in the Temple Church, of which So-
ciety the Baron was formerly a member.
About eleven o'clock the solemn procession began to
move in the following order:—
I The Undertaker,

Two Beadles of the Temple in their proper costume.
Two Mutes.

Plume of Feuthers.
THE BODY,
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Page.

Borne in a hearse drawn by six black hones, led by six pages. 1
Three mourning coaches, drawn by four horses each, containing
the mourners and friends of the deceased.
These were followed by a long line of gentlemen's carriages,
the servants wearing black silk hat-bands and gloves. The
procesLion moved with solemn pace to Inner Temple-lane,
and at the end of Pump-court halted, when the coffin
(which was covered with black cloth ornamented with gilt
nails and drops) containing the body, was carried by six
bearers to its last depository, followed by the mourners,
among whom we noticed one of the Society of Friends.
The deceased Baron was a sound lawyer; he possessed
great patience and attention to the cases that came under
his review, and an inflexible determination to resist any
contagion from the prejudices of others. It was this cmits
neatly useful quality which saved the life, a few years ago,
of a man convicted capitally at Durham, for a robbery and
murder, of which it afterwards was proved that he was not
guilty. The prejudice, as well as the apparent proof, ran
strong against him, but Baron Wood was not satisfied wit:i
the evidence, and (though lie stood almost single in that
opinion, of all who had heard the trial, so strong was the
prejudice or the proof,) he, haprily for the cause of justice,
saved the innocent man from execution, to the scarcely. dis-
guised dissatisfaction of stnne of the most distinguished
individuals in that part of the country, who were naturally
inflamed by the enormity of the crime against the supposed
criminal.

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In another part of our paper we have given the report of I
a Coroner's Inquest, held yesterday on the body of Sir I
James Fitzgerald, who put a period to his life by shooting I
himself on Tuesday, at his house in Baker-street, Portman- I
square. Lady Fitzgerald, on being made acquainted with
the melancholy catastrophe, was most deeply affected. She
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has quitted the house, together with her daughter, for the
I midence of a friend in the neighbourhood. A despatch I
was immediately sent off with the intelligence to the son of
Sir James, who is on a visit to a friend in Lancashire. The
deceased was between f 0 and 70 years of age, and was
nearly allied to the noble house of I;einster.
Com Amnon E O'BRI A N.—An English sailor, called Corn-
motion! O'Brian, entered the port of Calais alone at six
o'clock in the evening of the .sth instant, in a little beat,
sloop-rigged tof not more than a quarter of a ton. Ile had
sailed from Dover at eleven o'clock on the same day. To
convey some notion of the danger of passing the strait in
such a vessel, it is sufficient to mention, that it is little
more than five feet nine inches long, two feet eleven inches
wise, and one foot four inches deep. This sailor has al-
, reaey lost one vessel of the same size, with which he had
matt, several voyages; it is said, that to compensate hint
• for titat losa, his Britannic Majesty gave hint the boat
I which he now navigates.—Etvile Sa!t:rd,!y,