The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-28 00:00:00

ST. P.OL'S..
-morpr-t.
Yellen* it was unatein t am the Cockniee with their
telescopes iu different pinta tow. looking at a man who
was astride oa the top ef she, over the ball of St. Paul's
o Cathedral ;he did *et " bigger than a sparrow.
'Mete are three le4dars" , - to tech other, which es.
toned from the UV Op W the dome, up the Iso-
la
tern to the "Se =eat Ludgate-hill, which
trop the gm* am he perceived ; the day
beieg hue, t were in the street to wee it,
Swam or oito. away with dread at the sight.
ne 'Vie Ilea so that any of our
'AO aro be (twilled a ith the
' 4apli, lie so scaffold errctea fur itie
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parpese.

CORONA /.'S INQussr.
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An Inquisition was held last evening before Thome* Stit.
hue. E,q. Canner, at the Robin Hood Tavern, High Ilot-
isersi.en the bode .4 Frxerls Clark Foreman, Em. the mon
44 W. Fureesast, BIN of Ilarlovr„an miens, Solicitor, who
put an end to •liis exesience on Thursday morning at the
•George•anil Blue Boer, Halleire. when. is, bed, by shooting
Mansell with a pistol through the heart, havieg previously
takris a bottle of laudan•m.
• The Jury twine sworn, they took a tiew of the body,.
which was in bed .t the CMoree and Blue Roar, in the saase
eonditiots as Ines, first discovered—the follusing evideuee
WIN then adduced :
Ann Walker,. bar-maid at the George and Blue Boar,
sworn.—Tbe deceased was in the habit of cello': at mar
hails", dining, and sometimes sleeping. He came on Wed-
enday evening last,lihout six o'clock, and ordered dinner;
he ate sense soles end Veal Valets ; while he dined I re-
:Walked that' lie was exceedingly dejected : he usually was
very lively and chatty. He went to bed about eleven o'clock;
on the following mot ting be dill not cone down at the usual
time, sod the chambermaid, about a quarter past eleven
o'clock, went up to his bed-room; she came dowp stairs
greatly terrified, and informed mo he was dead. He hind not
been at our hotel before for sonic time; 1 never meat issued so-
nny one that Ise•ppeared dejected; I had no conversation wills
him before he went to bed ; I recollect when I spoke to him
lie did not answer; his bed-room was not Castrate! 1 he had
not locked it ; no one dined with the deceased, he sat in a
Lox by himself; after hi hail dined he called for pens, ink,.
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acid paper, sad wrote n neither of litters, six or seven 1
should think;, be dellalt a pint of beer withkis dinner, and
a pint of wine afterwords; be wise ireefecoly sober; he ink.ed
where the tear-penny peat woo, end was slit [td to At he
*en went one, and retuned in about two beers after; be
was Inure dispirited after his return than before ; from the
time he returned till lie went to bed he sat is a corner box,
with his head leaning on his band ;. I, observed in the room,
when he was found dead, an empty bottle lying on the &nee
leg. table ; there was a label,. on which the word
" Leudanum" was minted; part of the label waa. tura or;
a pistol lay on the bed, and the clothes were bloody.
Richard Brinsley Peakr, Esq. of No. 1'), (laurel's lan,
deposed :-1 ans Tinnier of the English Opera-house. I
have been acquainted with the deceased for some year.. He
was a student of law. lie was at toy chambers un Tuesday
Lot ; be was very tow aiseLdejertid ; he also appeared much
indisposed. On Thursday morning 1 received a letter by
the two-penny post, It is the hand-writing of the deceased;
I am quite positive; but the characters are disguised.
The witness produced the letter. It was addressed-a.
" R. B. Peake, Esq. 10, Clifford's Inn." 0o the bark sir
it was the post mark—" Hulhoro, 10 o'clock. 26ili April."
The Coroner read the letter, which was as follows:-
4 peas Riestessat—You hurt me mech; I have lost yolse•-1
confidence; although I placed in yen 'bat confidelice, and
reposed that secret; which oboe die knew except my rm.'
family. Tine secret was eun6ded to you three years ago,
and it has so oppressed my rend that it has made me mad!
mad! mad!—(There was some scroll is, this part of the
letter which was uninteligible.)—Oh! my dear friend, what
a d--d doctrine is this 41—ir1 predesliftelloa ! Oh! till vile—
abhor it ; curse it: 11--ii it.-1 am ever emirs at the Pig
and Tinder Box, Holborn. " FOREMAN."
There was no date to the letter.
Mr. Peaks eoutinued-1 sever observed symptoms of in-
sanity in the deceased. He was 24 years of age, and a most
pruntisiug young gruilisman.
Coroner—What is the secret which he states in his letter
that he cnallided to you ?
Witeten--1 recollect obit he refers to; it is to a commu-
niestion which he made to me of his aitachineut to a young
lady, and of a disappointment, which I have uo doubt preyed
upon his mind. It is this disappointment with a yoaug lady
to which 1 attribute the act the deceased committed.
Jtinkned Rind, of 51, Lamb's Cooduit.streee, Surgeon,
was called epos to attend the deceased on
y mosolog &bunt einem o'clock, he was is a bed.
i Nu.ll, at the George Nod Blue Boar, Hothura ; be
• ley is bed, the clothes went up to tin Aggerea....kmmeg;

Nth sadZaat•ribe es the left side, dwough which 1 in-
serted my Seger, aid &end that • ball had pasted in a
direction through the large polssosary artery, which was
the cause of the death of she deceseed; • pistol recently
discharged lay us the outside of the bed clothes; 1 did nut
open the deceased, and cannot say if be bad taken any thing
inwardly of a deleterious nature.
Juryman—The deceased mast have draws the clothes over
him after be shot himself.
.Witisess--Yes; 1 thick be put the pistol under Ilse (lathes
sad shot himself, and afterwards took it from cadge sal
put it outside the clothes. There was a great erodes at,
blood is the bed. From the situatios of the wised, and 110
position of the pistol whet I fused it, I believe she
mend held the pistol is the right head wires he reed*.
Cereser—The deceased might have takes the Ovid from
wader she clothes, sod draws them ever the smeW" after be
lied, fur she_
might mot be deprived of 'boogie and sealed fee
mime lime afterwards.
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Hassab Smith, Chambermaid et the George sod Blue
Boar, corroborated the former evideore. No import of the
pistol was beard is the house, though Mr. %Musk the
lesdlord of the hotel, sad his wife were in bed In a nem
seat bet t, lb. Actoose,n. The deceased wee lighted so
bed by bee ; be was quite sober ; he did Rot speak ; she
did socks& the coed!,; she felled it put out by kis( tuns.
sd rapids doves ia the essilleutlek, most morning.
.:44=sbeirvitat who waited opus the theeseed at dingier ear.
the evidesse of the bee.msid.
Jl Ilsatlessan named Visissesistieeeed as behalf of the
hsileceesid, he said it was as eetorteeate sad misplaced at.
' tackiest that had esesed the melancholy mat ; tket a
suadieset letters could be produced, prosier the inessity
of gbilirshosal, if the one already is coldest:ewes sot coo-
eidreed
suillelest.
'lllr. Edward Prates Gore, of deposed—l wee
eared is to the deceased, ma the alarm Whig gives that he
we. *O. I Used a wafermsel *a the dressieg-table (whims
it, sod it was the ma* that impressed the seal of
age; 's letter), I foetid in the waistcoat pocket of the
domed eight bellets, sad on the table was a 'holed
phis% she Mies to the lase fired off. They
to bee bees reseed, porehmed. I Walk BM
bas egi than of a pawahrolter *a the resiate
1 alleiressid *me papers (witness here peelserd • letlor
sosmiggempil es Me deceased, alma piece of paper es
while sisis'ism a .ember of fastmoseeted matesees. •
Theis* see is evidence) I also bead memo sliver
is Me pocket.
The July were divided iti *risks' ; several stated that
there rase proof of humility.
A gesehioss ras into the roses la a breathless state, sad
said that as the Jury were met all satisfied of the deceased's
insanity' be wished to state to them that es the dressing
table of the deceased was roved a sealed packet, addressed
to the Lady to whom the deceased wee so numb attached,
in which was a letter stating that he bed remised her pre.
mats, sod the letter was like all the rest he Wlst that sight,
wild, istrohereat, sad almost illegible.
The Jury said they could sot say the deceased wee Is a
state of Messily Nat the time he committed the sat.
Mr. Stirling said there could he se doubt epos the sub-
ject ; Its certalsly was issue.
After • long diecession a %mailed verdict was-retarsed,
in which all the Jury, except ewe. eoweisnid.
Venlkt—" The deceased predated Ms we deeds by
shooting himself, he heiag at the time he pulled lbe trigger
of the pistol of ausisaud Naiad."

LAW INTELLIGFNCE.
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CtpURT OF CHANERRY, I.tvtomes 1.1,
Fatoair; Alan.
The CORD a..itatscEl.l.oß. Ci ilia, court st
half-part ten o'clock, and give:judgment, to twin,
in two bankrupt petitions, of nu interest except iu
the parties concernet
LUNATIC PETITIONS. •
His Lordship Until one o'clock WilS occupied io..
hearing Lunatic Petitions of course.
LOitD BYRON'S TRAGEDY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that he cure
down yesterdav to his priilite room; to settle ibi•
matter as it referred to the tragedy being repre-
sented at Drepv.-lane Theatre.

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!Or. SHADWELI. he well sorry his Lirti--
sboitld hsve had the trouble; he wont(' hut.; sii•
tended; brit the Plaintiff had bs-en st-E•esl situ
notice that the Ationsev-General wfials!, this 1., ,
on the behalf of Mr. Ellison, move that die"- ins
junetion should he dissolved.
Mr. l'utt.t.trioue said, he wsi Cotiniel isith
the A ttonsey-Gentral, and they leers instViii-teil to
move for the dissolution dr the iisjuutt.i'on. The
Atturney-General was tent fit, 'Colt* *wild be in
Court in a few minutes. ,
The Loab CHANcst.Lot-io"I agkret to take
it. k bearit ioiny iniratiittioth." Lerd•-
then t,.se.
Lord Byron's Tragedy of Marino Faber*, Doge
of Venice.
MURRAY R. ELLISTON.

Counsel were admitted some time b. fore any
other persons., On our ruteringthe iiioiu we fowij
the ATTOIMILY-GIN VAAL, It littotit lit proless.ol;Al
Costume, moving that the 111 j rit.tioreshriulil be Ms-
salted, as it never ought t • have been round fib.,
to restrain a public theatre fro!it refirtSelittsig
that hid brew published', and which was in 11 e
hands of every pertoei who thought proper to ptir-
chwie it: He had always nitdrrstnoti that 0 I,hty
being once published gni+ the right to ifs hunt;
welted on •he stage ai well as iu a private room.
At common law it wan so tleCideil by Lord Ken-
Yon in the case of Cola:rat and Warren. Ile tam
at *Amu to know do what authority his Learners
Friend. Mr. Shailwell, groiroded Ins application for
the injunction. It could riot he on the oar of
Morris owl Harris, which Inrd been lately reported.
In that case Mr. Colman was, by agreement,
bound to write only for the flayrn.irket Thei.tirs
and iii contravention of that agreement lie fori;isti-
ed Covent Gorden Theatre atilt a farce, enlist
X, Y, ; and as Mr. Harris was aware. of Mr.
Colman's agreement with his CosProprieto s
the Haymarket Theatre, the Court granted the
injunction to restraist Mr. Harris from perforinni,t
the farce. But that case was not in point, as the
applii.ation litre of the Plaintiff was completely
novel ; for allowing that Lord Byron wrote lis
tragedy merely as a piece of poetry, anti not for
performance, the Defendant had at much riglit
to have it recited at 1111 Theatre us an itnistriau‘il or
set of itittividnuls to have it read at the Argyli -
rooms or elsewhere, or even as a initiate intlivaltna
to recite it to his friearls. It was not attempted to
be charged that soy injury had been ttISLII.,2ed

*me *vv. mr••••16 '4.1.111.11WV Vane wr
tragedy having been performed at Drury.lr.re
Theatre, for the fact was the contrary ; Itf
the representation having been received anti
unanimous approbation by the public, the de..
mend fur the book had increased. it was not
charger! in the bill that the Plaintiff's property iu
the publication would be deteriorated by the tragedy
being represented on the stage; it only alleged
that the Defendant had not the authority of the
noble and eloquent author for the performance, •
which he certainly had not, as he never considered
to ask his consent. The Defendant
b;:e
t considerable expense in getting the
i:adoeceqle3r o
play up, and itrodld be severe now that lie was a
favourite with the public, that he should be re-
stained from being able to remunerate himself. It
would be improper in him, anti it was not .'s with
to hide from the Court that the tragedy had been
performed one night at Druryelane theatre, and re-
ceived the full approbation of the audience; he did
not deny but it wag the tragedy which the Noble
Lord was the author of, but that it was curtailed.
nothing had been added to it. He was therefore
at ri loss to know how the high character of the
Noble Lord, as an author, could be injured ; and as
to his objection to its ever being represented on the
stage, which might have arisen from his fear of its nut
being sacceaslial, that doubt was now dune away
with, as it had received the approbation and ap-
plause of the public. Under these considerations
he had no doubt but his Lordship would be of
opinion, that this was a ease which did not cull for
the continuation of the injunction.
Mr. Puteustoaa followed on the same side.
Mr. SHADWILL said be appeared as Counsel to
support the order of injunction which his Lordship
had issued, and he expected that his Learned
Friend, the Attorney-General, would have 'made
AI,I apology to his Lordship for Mr. Elliston, for
%is having had the tragedy performed at his
"Theatre after the injunction had been ranted.— •
He did not throw this out in an invidious way, but
bethought such an apology was due to the Court.
The circumstances were. that after Lord Byron had
written the tragedy, he gave his interest in it to the
Plaintiff, who was well know., as a respectable
bookseller and publisher • and although he had not
the authority of the Noble Author for this proceed-
log, he considered I *elf bound' to attend t..
his wishes, which were expressed iu the prefect-
to his book. that he had a great ohjiection to
its being represented on the stage. The Attot..
ney-General had said that •_ poem which was
written as a tragedy was open to reprerentstimou
the stage ,• that was not the ease tiere for the
preface told them that it was 'lever ictended for the
Nage. It was admitted that Mr. Ellistou hat not
bait the tragedy fairly represented. as it was Only
t-ortsiled represeutatiore

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LIB ELS.
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Last nIKI:t Mr. PATRICO KELLEHER, tile Pro.
sirrieter of -the Real Joint. Ball. w.,• take') into liu
Custody by GtsaoK, the:7'ollllA, on a J,.igt's bo
inuraw, for puirliakiag a., lon the KING. f
• Thursday evesong "Fl Dolby, publi‘her, of l'u
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tire. Strand, was ',treat ',ltt owls towe by two
Aiof thy Kid'};;:. Be ,ou it Jallge's wer-
I rant, fur publishing a iilor "eat the King.
fr-lIIIST wi
Wit twailinalato _d _AI _4l*. it_ GRATTAN laiis,cato.
trarneed legal proceedings irobirtst Mr. Joint 131.; NKR lc
e FlYziltatoos the Propriellir of the Print, called •
The IliberNian Jorrnsl, fist itlibel nrt his lute de- I:,
ceased dither, the Right Man. HENRY GRATTAN•
Dublin Morning Pori.)
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•••• rwiagurivi Now .7 Mpg RR,/ •I% WU. %Huy 1
a (-orbited representation of it. He ciaitendert
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A young Gentleman, the son of Mr. S---, a 'iliac where is mai had property in a literary.wnrk.
retired tradesman, in Ozford-street, attempted to • it. was not necessary fur him to chew what specihc
drown himself early yesterday morning in the Ser. damages he might sustain by its beiugmirated Lay '
pristine River, but be was rescued by same men emitter ; for naiades, there .eniglit'bevach defects
going to work. Losses at play are said to hove in the representation if the •sietois of the pubis.-
been the cape of the rash attempt. lected from the original, 'Shit loiien prej•dice the
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A floating chapel is about to be built at Hall, public against she beak et the :Noble Authoi. •t•
fur the religions instruction of the numerous sea. The AtsonstT-Graireal had said, if the injuoctiol• ,
men, who, in the course of their business, visit an cuvitinued in forte against the Defendant, it • • •
that port, 'would restrain the tragedy from being publicir ru.
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