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ASIOT TO A L ADV.
ILLINGI VEX&

tel. tele, tea.
arms ot the roil et /eat;
(trait, Gii
1° S,tatt.

teal my heart telly,
where I .:t...b•4 4 to
t ui the taite,t ..,v,
My Serah.
thy lovely spitki.s..vek
ul a• Tito n. du
hen thou art torn,
. &Loh
tut, kind, and Rce,
•vpret
ire to took on me,

yeqr lettelt,
woke* tlt b a t h lye"
bud stoe sty f
4...t0 Sarah.
se *het* you dwell?
e I wou'a you ned,
ou, I say farewell
To Sailit,
hc•Aees tar a deg
',if ,he be nigh,
hat I aagitt fly
To Satoh,.

! serene,
•• e be gem,
d pasture reea,
My &rib.
or ugh ay am
rba remise year,
.4 lost& rine _re,
My Sarik,
wait the day
ka Shennlug May,
If ever ay,
My Sarah.
A. M.
Isl'tNING.
iv Saturday evening, the irtroi
Mail and Countess Cowrie. ass
Iship% house, in Pen-go-yrs&
l' he ceremony ars.; pe.la•med is
room, by the Key, Toasts,
ad. HIS Royal flighty:a the
stood sponsors in person. %tit
Irene, and the Hoc. SU sett
I's brother). The child lust
pest us. iscoont NI ationtroa
rates, Sratosr, bard and Lad.
kiSSIDaII, Mr. WARP, Hon. G.
tY, tkrtd Mr. Liu a Reck, were
,ck of a grand dinner. Afro
of the company went to Mel.
Pow.
Ong. Ha Namara, Peloeioa:s
and Sarnia, accompanied 'ay
Boost airs NalaioWnSSl4l),llr.
rice at St. George', tihap?l, and
by Dr. Loco. His Mnia.re
ad the Royal Horse Guards,
sent, in the Coot yard, such&
mums and Col. Da.amovr.
preformed In Her hi a,t
STY and A M61.1A, to the CAM:.
hi at Frogmorr,.
.ness the Duke of Yopt is exp..
ty, from Oat.an is
rived in town, on Saturdays t;
rm, near V% ink r
, Bart. is eriieSed at Tiinlda,
a ire, nes: Marolay, from Rawlin
rain, Kent.
gnriess the Duce of Ct.antacs.
his tradesmen, in halloo or Li
was dressed a: the Red LiJa, a
lAst Saturday.
a• landed at Donagbadee, fro
nesday.
f Hsa arm* roof and the Ea-I cl
d in Uualin on Saaday

"...'oqntess or A atm:Lyra went, irs4
to tre Marchioness 44 Apraco •
urn whence they will printed '4
they intend pAuinA threv Months.
eft town, yesterday, tor Brighton.
had A ho.riper at ifs benefit II
lg qr..liatt,rci•iii
itdivitto.ition, did not pet tnrm
nArect.l.oll gave A grAnd .?inner
t veAt At li•mpsteAd, to a 11
r; Amongst whom wet..., the iht
Sr. ALBAN'S. Lady
Amuse), and AlA.Sanvior.a
L. g. P. will leave town, this ail

RAN' arrived, on S.turday, at Ni
)m Cr:ea-1140rd.
lir:Guam left torn, yester.lay)

.0 /Mg ONT left town, last Pci 1.y,1
rth, Su,Aet.
iv's heal h contionet daily to if
oeiito socreAses, And go
ette.r th.an he h+.: dore for :4 letv
...orabh;e) lora yetterlty u, ezo:111

ad
Eisimt urn.. had a select card
Saturday evening, et her hou,e I
'ortmeii-vythrte ; tilrfe were p,esen
uchr..ss ot r. A LI3Ax'S, Lady i'Lltt
ISS DiIIUIIIvNIN Lade and N;.'4
e Poicrt.ciasg Am /Au,. Dort,
Misses Bac‘roass. raw str:e:

last. the Ea7l and Countess of B•..I
itccoinissoicii by Lady S A Ad :1'
in N.irviich. from Losrs: ft.
7TSSUN, 1.-11. on which occasion th
re an elegmt eotettaioment
at i
.r]-street. Th- toll Awing day
procleleJ for his seat in I.!
ng prod-u. 17 LonotstA with wt
rer was svvrshr et notice

COROA INQULS r.

0 i Satnrct iy evening, at seven o'clock, an ;mini.
siti in was held at the Yo,kshire Grey public-house,
iline.,diately opposite St. George's Workhouse,
Southwark, by Tenta SIA. SKELTON, Esq. Can'ooer,
on the body of a young woman, the name at the
time unknown, who was found dead on Friday
morning, in Higler'slane, ty some called Belvidere-
row, as stated in tlii, paper on Saturday. A full
Jury heing sworn, they retired to view the body, and
on their return, proceeded to examine the witnesses.
John Todman was first called ; he he deposed,
was a subscription watchman in the parish, and was
on duty from eleven o'clock on Thursday nig't,
until Friday morning. Ex&faly as St. George's
clock struck three, he was going up Fligler's-lane,
calling the hour. When he came opposite Mr.
Gibbs's gate, he saw something white in the corner.
supported in part against the hall door, and close
by a cart, which was set on its end, rather at one
side of the gate. At first, he thought it was a dog;
hut, to be certain, he went over to it and tapped it.
He then found it was a woman, and supposing she
might be asleep or intoxicated, he said to her, " my
dear, get op."- At this moment, Mr. Gibbs opend
Lis bedchamber window. which overlooks the spot,
and said to him, " Tedman, did you see whether
my gates were secure after the waggon went away?
the dogsl have been very uneasy for some time
back, and I am much afraid some person has got
into my premises." The witness said the gates
were paafeetly secure, but begged of Mr. Gibbs to
bring down a light. as there was a woman there,
and lie was afraid she was dead. Mr. Gibbs in a
very short time came down with a candle, and they
were then enabled to see the situation of the taro-
;lmre woman. Her clothes were pulled up to her
middle, and she lay on her back on the ground,
with her legs extended, and far asunder. Her
chin lay on her breast, the back of her head being
supported against the hall door, as if she had fallen
down. She had bled a little from the mouth and
nose, and her face was bloody. The witness put
kis hand under her left breast. and found that she
was warm, but could not observe any symptom of
life. He then took hold of her by the arm, and
raised her up, but her head fell back, and on mov-
ing her again, it rolled on her shoulder. He then
observed to Mr. Gibbs, that he believed she was
bone beyond recovery, but they agreed, that the
ust thing that could be done, was to call up some
medical mass, who might examine the bcdy. The
witness accordingly went for Mr. Price, a surgeon,
and when he came, be said she was dead. While
Mr. Price was e;aminieg the body, the witness
looked about the place to see if he could find any
thing belonging to the deceased, as she had nothing
on her head, and was without shoes. In the cart
which was close by where she lay, be found a
comb which women wear in their hair, and also a
muslin handkerchief ; it was bloody, and tied with
a hard knot in a small circle, as if it had been tied
chose about her neck; the circumference of this
circle was cut across, both the edges being in-
dented and scalloped, as if the handkerchief, when
tied mid wrinkled up about her seek, bed been cot
off with a knife or sharp instrument.. In looking
under the cart, he observed a small piece of
tat, which he pulled towards him with his
/ lock, amid gave to gy. Priest. vpho esanaissed it.
.IMid compared it with that part of the body from
labich it was evidently cot. to a question put by
the Coroner, the Witness said, the deceased had
gloves on her, but he could not tell whether they
were bloody or not. In another cart, which stood
at the other s:de of the gat'. three or tour yards
from the deceased, he found a straw bonnet, with
p
I e fou
ink r indbka pair
an do
of v
on it; and in
h i the
shoes.
He
middle
thenof
carriedtheroiisi
the bcdy to the Bench of Grapes Public-house, and
covered it with his coat. At e:even o'clock, he
said, he went on duty, and p.n,sed up Hipler's-lane,
in going his ronnos, every half hour, from that
Lail three in the morning. when he found the
body. He was positive it was not there at halt-past
two o'clock, and he heard no noise, or did he ever
recollea having a quieter night.
John Gibbs, the charcoal merchant, opposite to
whose door the body was found, corroborated the
story told by the watchman ; and further said, that
%bola 20 minutes before two, on Friday morning,
kis brother's waggon left his yard for the country.
At that time he was np, and shut the gates after
the waggon. He then went to bed, and slept till
ab..ut ten minutes before three, when he was awak-
ened by the balking of lls dogs. He sat up in the
bed, and said to his wife. that some person moat
have gut into his premises, on account of the dogs
making such a noise ; but she diould not let him get
up q4SII the watchman came. I-is brother went
off with the waggon, and the Witiless, at that time,
was outside tne gate. and was convinced the WO.,
Man WAS not there at that time. He heard no noise
but the harking of ht,. dogs, which awoke him; nor
WAS the,* any sign of any struggle having takes
pu-
galarce beforeat even if
his cloor: thesehad, it
butt h eg ground
nota estahtdy
there :
d. that
discovered.
Rees Price, a surgeon, in Blackfriars-road, said,
when he came to the place, shortly after three
o'clock, he found that the womaa was dead, though
she was not then quite ;.old. Her face was bloody,
be believed with the blood which came from her
iciarth and nose. He then examined the head,
neck, and breast, very carefully, but could not find
any marks of violence about her. While he was
examining the body. die watchman delivered to
him a small piece of flesh, which he found, on com-
paring it, had been cut away below the lower part
of the abdomen of the deceased. It apaeared to
have been Loth cut and torn, the part being much
lacerated 1 but this wound, in his opinion, could
as have occasioaed her death. The watchman,
also, showed him a handkerchief he had found,
which was tied with a double knot, in a small circle,
scarcely Loge enough to contain the neck; this
circle was cut across with a sharp instrument, and
altogether it looked as if it hid been tied tight round
the neck, and rhea cu: off at the back ; the handker-
chief was bloody, which he supposed was occasioned
b 7 tha bleeding of the nose and mouth ; from all
the circumstances, the Witness concluded, in his
own to•nd, that the deemed had been strangled,
but t.
a' - '
ere Were r. 4 marks of violence externally or
tcy"ll, he could not, as a professional man, al-
" that strangling was the cause of her der.!:

04.3 A.SLOTCOO, i;VI.11, iu I.'a4 in-streets'
Borough, deposed, that lie fira sew the deceased
ei St. George's Workhouse. He corroborated the
former Witness, with retired to the piece of flesh
we have before described ; and said, that he had the
deceased stripped, and had her head shaved, but,
after the most minute egarnination, he foiled no
external marks of violence, except that already men-
tioned, which he was positive could nut have occa-
sioned her immediate death. He then opened the
body, and examined it internally ; the belly ap-
peared very much swoln and distended, and it ap-
peared, from the contents, as if the deceased had
been eating ternips or apples; hens the smell, also,
it was evident she had beets drinking spirituous li-
quors, but there were here no marks of violence, or
any kind of disorder; on the contrary, all was
sound, and appeared as if the deceased Was in per-
feet health and tone. He then examined the head,
and here he perceived that the face appeared tumid,
as if blood had been detained there by an interrup-
tion of the circulation ; but there were no appear-
ances of any external violence. There was no ern-
travasation of blood on the brain; out in the frontal
cavities. which lie near the top of the nose, there
was a small porticfn of blood, which might have been
occasioned by the fall.
On being asked his opinion with respell to the
cause of the woman's death. he said, the circum-
stances were mysterions; from the appearance of the
stomach, the deceased might have been intoxicated,
and that might have occasioned apoplexy, which,
perhaps, might have been the reuse of her death ;
but to this he could not speak with certainty. Most
undoubtedly, the injury she had sustained by cut-
ting away the piece of flesh, could not have ACZA-
siceed her death in any, other manner 'than • by
draining he body of blood, which Was not the case.
Again, the appearances were not such as would in-•
duce him to think she was strangled, as her neck
being short and wrinkled, would have been most
likely to get discoloured soon. • But the might have
been suffocated, by putting a hanokerehiet to her
mouth and nostrils, or by pressing it against her
windpipe, in nei:her of which cues WAS it likely
there would be any appearances of violence. What
made it more probable that she came by her death
in one of these ways was, that there was scarce
blood enough in her head to occasion her death isy
apoplexy. These, he said, were his smtimems as a
professional man ; but it was impossible inn him to
say positively how she CAM:: b y nor death.
odman and Gibbs we're Leen caaed in amain,
and asked. whether they had found any knite or
seissars about the spot where the woman lay ? but
they both answered in ih.• negative.
The Coroner then intinired, whether any knife or
scissors was found in tee pocket t f the aeceesed ?
and was informed, by one of the QiFleers, teat
there was not; and that her pockets contained no-
thing but half a guinea, a seven shillings piece, some
silver, and a key.
Emma Hutton, a married woman, living at Nu.
2, Mansfield-street. said she knew 'he deceased, who
went by the name of Anne Webb, a.' West. She
lived next door to her, in Mansfield-street; and, she
believed, was a woman of the town. Oa Thundey
evening, at eight o'clock, she saw her looking out
of her Window ; she also saw her at one o'clock
next morning, standing, teeming her head on her
hand ow a post, betwentethe Landon-road and the
retitle-road. The Witness, seeing that she held her
other fiend clenched, asked her wnat • she had got in
it ? The deceased answered, " Two half guineas
and some silver." Ilia Witness then asked her,
•• It she was ill, and if she was going home i''
s:;e said, " Her head WAS not wen, and that she was
nut going ramie just yet." In the early pair of the
evening she had some rum with the deceased, but
this was behove eight o'clock. lucre was a man
of the name of Waite, a Carpenter, used to gu back
and forward to the decriattd, hot she .dsd not see
him for y consideieble time bare, oor dad she see
any man with the deceased that night.
Ann Bryan. a married woman, who owned the
house, No. a. Islansfield-street, said, the deceased
lodged in the front-room, on the first door, for
nine or ten months hack; she lived alone, 'until
Easter last, when a man, named write, a carpen-
ter, came to lice with her. They lived together
for three or four weeks, but he did ten always sleep
there; because she, the Witness, forbade him the
house, as he was idle, and the deceased pledged
her clothes to support him. The last night he
slept in the house, he was going to strike her, at
night, for desiring him to go out of ha house ; and
in the morning, to avoid seeing her, leaped inn of
the window, and she never saw him since. On
hursday evening, when the Witness came
torn Peckham cair, where she kept a booth,
there was a gentleman with the deceased ; and
atter he WettL away, the deceased went out, and
took the key of the door with her. Before she
went, she asked the witness if she would have
any thins to drink ? and on her refusing, the de-
ceased told her she would be at her booth next
evening to tea ; but she did not afterwards see bet,
until she saw her a corpse. The deceased was 111
the habit of drinking a good deal, but the never
saw Ler drunk snore than twice; though she cnee
told her she had in one night drank seven glasses of
brandy. the deceased was only nineteen on the
6th of November last, and her real name was Eliza-
beth Winterflood ; she came from Bury Si. Ed-
mund's, where her mother, who had twenty-five
children, lived. She told the witness she had
a brother a Quarter-master in the Guards; and when
the witness intreated her to go to him, she said he
would not own her now. 'I he witness was then ques-
tioned with respect to the chara.ter of White, and she
said, she believed he was an idle fellow. She once
heard that a young women had drowned herself
on his account ; and the watchman, some time back,
brought the deceased home, and aid she was going
to drown herself, and it was thought that her reason
far attempting such a thing was because White had
taken up with another gill. She, however, could
never learn whether the deceased had ever such an
intention or not.
The bonnet and handkerchief worn by the deceas-
ed. were then produced and sworn to by Mrs. Bryan ;
who, on seeing the bloody hendlerchief, bus: into
tears, and begged the body, that she might bury it.
The Coroner told her, she must make applieaiion to
the parish for that.
'nee Washerwoman of the deceased, and a Pub-
fella in pit neighirlrirodlvier! both examined, but

their evidence was uninteresting. All_the witocsees
agreed in giving the deceased the best charafter that
a woman in her situation could have.
The Coroner summed up the evidence, and de-
sired the Jury to consider, whether or not it could be
the aft of the deceased? This, to him, appeared
impossible, from the brutal manner in which she was
treated, aud from the handkerchief being cut, which
it was impossible she could have done, if she had
been the cause of her own death. He was willing,
he said, to adjourn the inquest, if it was thought
any other evldence could be produced ; but if they
considered it better to come to a determination at
once, and leave the further inquiry to the gentlemen
of the parish, who, he was happy to see, were exert-
ing themselves in the buaisess, the verdift they
would give could not implicate any person in the
guilt, as there was no evidence to that efeet.
Tne Jury, after a very short consideration, re-
turned a verdia of wilful wieder, agnill4l was ',torsos
OP pelsons &ohm*.
The Police of this metropolis have raised them—
selves in the estimation of the world by the disco-
very and conviction of the atrocious eared, the
murderer of Mr. Blight. They have wow an op-
portunity of adding to their well-earned character,
by the discovery of the perpetrator or perpetra-
j tors of a murder still more brutal, horrible, and
barbarous. Delicacy prevents us from detailir,g the
barbarity exercised upon the person of this poor
unfortunate girl. They are such as induce us to sup-
s pose, that a haired, founded in jealousy, instigated
her murder. In that case, if perpetrated by a
man, it could have been only the-'aft of a tingle
arm. Two men could rut have combined to ear-
cute sn horrible a purpose. They would have been
more likely to murder each other. It may, on the
cow:No', have been the aft of several women of the
uolortuoatis class of the deceased, among whom,
undersiand,slie was An objeft of jealousy. We
learned, at a late hour last night, that two women
have bees taken up on suspicion.

nvsoL YEN r DEBTORS. '

On Saturday last, et special adjournment of the
Quartcr Sessions, of the city of London, was held,
pursuant to notice, in the Court of King's Bench,
Guildhall, before the RECURDERi Mr. Alderman
Harstcty, !Kr. Alderm la ocitoxev., and Mr. Alder-
man Dam et! az, for the purpose of discharging the
Insolvent Debtors, (under the last Aa made for
that purpose), who were confined in the city gaols,
for deists not exceeding t5OOl. and for which they
had heels in confinement previous to the In day of
rebrintry last.
At the commencement of the business, the Re-
coyote intimated to the Court, that it had been
determined to discharge all those insolvent Debtors
whose enlarg .roent was not opposed, in the first
place; and afterwards, that a day should, be ap-
pointed for decidiag the disputed cases.
The Court then proceeded to examine the 7: chg.
cluhis and other necessary documents; and 134
Prisoners were discharged from the City Gaols.
•iz.•
Fruro I..rOgate Priton $
From Gans ,ur. t,Crt Compter . 10
From the Poierry Coml.tet 7
the Fleatoeris.la • 199

Total . Igo
. . .
Among the latter liberations was Mr. John King,
a gentleman well known in this city. He had be-
come a Bankrupt, and was confined for some years
withal the rules of the Fleet Prison. An applica-
tion had been very lately made for his liberation,
unclrr his commission, to the Court of Chancery,
but it was afterwards withdrawn, in consequence of
his intehrion to seAt the benefit of this Aft. Messrs.
Alley, Gerney, and Agar, Appeared as his Counsel,
in support of his enlargement on Saturday, which
was at first opposed by Mr. Knapp, on behalf of
one of his cveitors, but afterwards he withdrew
that opposition, in consequence of a compromise be-
tween the parties, and Mr. King was then dis-
charged.
The Marquis Spinnettee, a young Portuguese
Nobleman, of very elegant manners, was also dis-
charged.
. The Court will sit again on Tuesday (to-mor-
row,) to hear and determine the cases of Insol-
vents who are opposed. We understand there are
not many of this slescrlption.