The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Monday evening, at seven o'clock, an inquisition was takes
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before T. SHELTON, L,1.,
the body of Caroline Bennett. an infant of a tweirkarun;,
who was burnt to death under the following rather sieg lay c-:cu::
stances:—
Previous to the Jury being swom a long diseurs:on Mak p?:..c.b:.
tween them and the Coroner as to their exemption fro:t ett‘irr.
occasions similar to the present.
Mr. SHELTON, the Coroner, informed them, :1;m as Britit%
subjects and householders they were compelled to attend to 1;1.5 sea..
mons, and until they could bring forward a just t.-etc:see w ht
services should be overlooked, and others called uron to t.tiici;,,
their stead, he certainly should still order the IR at:le to ei,..r.ok
those gentlemen who were most contiguous to the hJspital ; in :'ac:,
they must he aware that the summoning of jurynic:: was an e:
standing English law, and that their services were imperativt'y
called upon by their country. lie (the Coroner) concluded be (6.
serving, that this was the fourth or fifth time he had been airaikri-:
addressed in this hospital, and he hoped that the present wool::
the last, as every gentleman must be au are that their ap.rhlT.tiaii
blur upon occasions like the present was wholly unnout sty
grounds.
The Jury being sworn, the witnesses (touching the death of the
child) were forthwith examined.
Mrs. Jane Davis, of No. 20, Golden-lane, on Per oath, dep,:mej,
that the deressed was five god-daughter; about too months laflc.,
she took it tdi the parents' hands, who were very poor people, : I
incapable of supporting it. On Friday light last, about r;-.
o'clock, witness hiving occasion to go out left the deceased in I,d
with a candle on the table, which wws some yards distant front :
bed, and on her return, in about a quarter of an leir.
the room enveloped in smoke. IVitness becnn:e mich
account of the child's situation, and, after calling a lot.'q.:.r to I.
assistance, she rushed into the room, muck for the
seizing the deceased, she hurried from the room nearly Ott:7 t
by the smoke. On examining the deceased she fund 1,,:
fully burnt, and apparently lifeless; a medical
sent for, the deceased was ordered to be conveyed to I:71S t.
whither witness accompanied her, and oatitinued with Pe:
died, which was about five o'cloeit die following
turday).
The Coroner and Jury expressed their surprise how th- s
clothes had caught fire, and minutely questioned the go:l,to•ta at,
to the situation of the candle when she left the room, end
there was any fire in the grate; to which questiors tn.):
replied, thnt there hail not been a fire in the grate the whe:::
and that the candle was left in the situation described.

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The Coronet expressed his opinion, that during the ter—^r -r
absence of the godmother, the child must have lilt , rd
going to the candle caught tire, that being alarmed. the
must have returned to its bed, by which the flume was 1-Xti!
but that a smothered fire had consumed Cie Led cl,
eventually burnt the deceased in the manner they had
The Jury concurred unanimously in the opinion, e: the (..,r.
and after receiving the evidence of the surgeon of :he le
to the deceased's death being caused by the burn she -rr ii
a verdict, that the deceased was accitlenta4 bu:

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THE PARTSH OF .MARYLEDONE.—The vestry of
most extensively populous parish have conic to the ',alma'
mination of enforcing the strictest observance cl the .
every class of shopkeeper and parishioner; and Iy a
public notice have cautioned them against any infraczien .•
regulation, which it is found of late has become sbsolutdy
nary to the existence of decency and order. For some WOW
congregations of the district churches have been excessli,:, a:
toyed by the conduct of many pc:ty shopkeepers, who c.f..
their business openly, and without restraint, thmughet
greater part of Sunday. It has therefore been deterinimil
coed for the penalty awarded by the local Act agiiiist as p
who keep their shops open after ten o'clock on Sunday r:or:
and as upon many occasions the Curates proceeding the
in the eacrei.e of their important duties, have been
the grossest ribaldry, proceeding from groups of drunl.,:i k::-
ters, just ejected from public-houses, the same hour of ten a'.:
it is &Stied, shall, in future, be the closing me for t nil
whose licenses, in the event of any misconduct, will be eppoic: -••
probably in danger.

BIRTHS.
On Friday list, at Thorp Hall, the Lady Augusta Mi:bt:-.!
a daughter.

OnwTueseay last, at Newtham Paddox,
Countess of Denbigh, of a daughter.
On Thursday, at Dolman, the Countcas Howe, of a •
On Thursday, at Charlton Kiva, the Isly of the
Walker, 111. A. late of New Collet, Oxford, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
At Rosemount, Aberdeen, on the f..).Bth ult. Charks
Esq. of Williamston. Aberdeenshire, to Margaret 1:f, aro% T
est daughter of Charles Michell, Esq. of Forcer
On the Ist inst. at St. Psneras New Church, II
Papps, Es 9. of the Old Jewry, to Frances Ann.
daughter of Alexander Forbes, Esq. of Upper
Tavistock-square.
On the Ist inst. at Kingston Church, the Rer. D. (l•
only son of the Rev. Robert Norris, of Tutterford,
Mary Pellew, youngest daughter of P. F. Wallis, Esq. of
near Poi tsmouth.

i,;•e,
Rev. Thomas Alder, M.A. of St. Peter's College, Car..
to Miss Eliza Edwards, of Wantieden, Norfolk.
Rcv. Thomas Charles Brown, Chaplain to the Duke of Marcl-os•
ter, to Frances Page, only daughter of the late W. Page.

DIED.
On the lath ult. at 'Monti:fillers, near Havre de Gram
years, Arthur Gore, Esq. eldest son of the late lion. Paul tiot,
of the county of Mayo.
Lately, at Tisbury, Wilts, the Rev. Thomas Prevost. PI!:
e. Vicar of that place, and of Rushmere, in Sutfolk, and form,
Christ College, B.A. 178'2, M.A. 1786.
On the 30th ult. at her son's house, Eyfarthfa, Glamorcal
Eliza, wile of Wm. Crawshay, Esq. of Stoke Newington, 31u...
sex, in the 60th year of her age.
At Ki!ware. wear Dublin; Mrs. Magee, the lady of his Grace the
Archbishop of Dublin.
On Friday lost, at Totteridge, aged 66, Margaret, the sae of
Thomas Atkinson, Eal. of Redford place, Russell-square.
On the let inst. at his house, in Upper Belgravellare, o°'
lice, Henry Elliot, Esq. aged 83.

MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY
Morning. I I min. after 7. j Evening, 42 min. site' 7.

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