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This day. about ten o'clock. the Corone►, on the anent-
blade of the Jury, stated, that he was wink r the necessity of
Miciithog :mother luquem, and therefore be elitist adjourn
the present, Ile added, that in consequence of the tuniul.
Nous behaviour of the populace nu Tues.lsy night, as well
as throuzhout yesterday, he felt it necessary to .tdjout• to
the Star Inn, at Mansemater.
Adjourned to Friday mortriag, at ten o'clock, to the star
Mauchester.
The tumult alluded to yesterday wes occasioned by a ru-
mour that the grave ofinhit Lees war on. nett at three sickle*
iu the muruing. This rumour turns out to be quite cur.
rest; it was stymied by Edward Travis, who was employed
by the mama, mime under Ilse directions of J 1,1121131111 Mel-
lor, the constable. The object for opening tbr grave was to
let the Coroner are the body, as it was his July to see it.
But (ruin the circumstance of its being opened at so tar',
au hoar, and in so elatukstioe a manure, au iUlprelPioll was
produced among the populace, that it was intended to
steal away the body with a view to defeat the ends of jus-
tice, and to put a period to the preseset inquiry. This
erroneons idea was, however, of a *cry short duration, nod
the popular murmur erased at au catty hour of the mono-
log. Still the Coroner has made the 'rumouring occasiou-
ed by error, and productive of no violence or insult to any
individual, a memo, for trstisfeiring this inqslest to such a
distance, that as the Jurors are selected from different town-
ships, namely, those of Oldham, Boron, owl Charlton, some
must come about 20 mile% daily, if they do not thiuk proper
to sithaiit to the incuusenienCe and oxpeuse of reins iiiii sg It
Manchester storing the continuance of the Inquisition. How
are these Jurors to he indemnified But the Coroner his
• certain allowance by law, and the removal of the Inquest
to Manchester will he more convenient far the witisessrs
about to be poured in fur the Magistrates and yeomanry.
Therefore this extraordinarylvmovai is a matter of isis mo-
ment, as it can only inrouveuiener the gentlemeit of the
Jury, but of such a removal I have never beard before.
The Star Ina is the uniform rendezvous of the Magistrates.
It is also the hustle at which " the namerout •u,l respectable
Meeting," as it was called, was assembled to thank the Ma-
gistrates and yeomanry for their conduct oil the 16th of Au-
grist, although nu roust in the iota is competent to contain
100 persons:.

MANCIIESTE /I, OCTOBER 7.

Just as we were on the point of setting out fur Oldham
this morning, Intelligence was received ihnt the lnque►t
would be adjourned until to-morrow. The following ts, I
understand, the copy of the Coroner's letter In Mr. Harmer :
H Mr. Feirand troubles Mr. Flamer with this note, to in-
form hint that the Inquest will alert this thy only fur the
purpose of adjourning it until to-manor, at tea to'cluck,
and not to examine any witnesses."
M,. Harmer orkuusiledged the receipt of Vt. Fevrana's
pane nose, expressing however Ins regret that isii reason
was assigned for such as " extraordinary proceeding" And
well mg& Mr. Hornier denominate this an extraordinary
proceeding; fur it appears impossible to imagine any reason
in justify it, while it bar the street of twitting considerable
embarrassment and espense to all thole who are conceiusd
in endeavouring to elicit the troth upon this interesting
occasion. The cal-rinses were bared. sad the witnesses, with
Mennen. DelllMoill and Banger, wets prepared to net till, at
tie moment this iroruassaicatiour was received. This is tio
Teas then the seventh adjournment that has taken place since
tkr sointuninioug of the Jury open this inquest.
The expedient to silence Alert*. Harmer mad Disdain at
the inquest, and so to protect front any cross-exassiostion
ttse witnesses adduced osi tins part of the leoss►a and Ms.
entitles of Riasehester, has, l ant tnsppy to find, been

Mrs. Lees, however, declared, immediately after she left
the Court on Treaday evening, that she did not by any means
intend to deny that she had authorised Messrs. Denison and
Harmer to interfere iu the inquest on her part and that of
the family, but that rbc was confused by the variety of the
truss quest' put to her by the Coroner and Mr. Ashworth.
I was myself present indeed when Mrs. Lets requested
Messrs. Harmer and Drnisuu to conduct the inquiry UP the
part ut her family, and this reqnest was made at the time
the body of the deceased was first seen by the Jury.
Still further to strengthen this appuiniment, a paper was
prepared amid presented on Wednesday morning by a number
of the inhabitants of Oldham, expressed in the following
teens : _ .

" To Mewl. Harms and Desisno.

We the tioderonimed, householders of Oldham, request
you to atteud the iuquest on the case of the late John Lees."
A similar request from Ruyton, Crompton, and Chadder-
tem, signed by neer • thons•ud inlhabstauts, was also pre-
ss otesl to Messrs. Harmer sud Denison.

I NQV FST ON DA LTON.
acronym 7.

The proceedings uu the ingnert commenced this morning.
Mr. Harmer did nut al lend, as be Will not professionally .u.
gaged in the case; nor did any other professional mail ap.
pear for the friends of the deceased. Mr. Ashworth said, he
would not allow any cruse examination of the witnesses. In
/am, h. himself COISINCIC4I the whole examination, au far as
they had nut been previously written in the former deposi-
tions. _ _

The wife of the landlord girdle George end Dragon pnblici
bottle, in Swan-strtet, deposed, that the deceased expired i•
their honse on the 42d of September. lie appeared to her,
uf all things, like a man who was choked; he seemed to
have something is hie throat.
One or Inn wute witnesses were examined, but they stated
nothing material.
John Hyde, assistant to Illr.Tbornley, the sus own, staled,
that hr was called to see the deceased: be f d him dyiue,
and be seemed to have something is his throat which choked
: he took out two small bits of mutton, soil another
very laser one ; he thought it large ?trough to have urea.
shined death by
Messrs. Ainsworth, Thorpe, and Thornley, three several
surgeuus, alto bad opened and examined the body,
signed their names to a written statement, which they had
drawn ep at the lime. This statement expressed that
there was a braise on the Imo k of the scalp, sod austher ou
the aide of 11w covered with a plaster ; there was
eery great discolooration uu the parts of Hie deceased on
which he was laid; the back, the ribs, sad the shoulders
were discoloand by exitdattos sad theatre which leek
Aare after death. On 'Remising the cavity uf the left
breast, they fared she tweeted' rib had been brukeu, bat I!,c
broken part had set perforated the pleura, or affected the
lungs. The throat wall much distended on the inside, bat
Imre no easekirof mensal violence. 'I be stomarb cuatained
a goad deal of vegetable matter, bat no animal food. They
were decidedly of opisiew that he died of suffocation.
Hervey, ripassimp, swore. that be was at the George
cud Dragon ttn the Stb sithiplesther, when the public-llamas
were clewed by flee watch stxl word, and shell the driveled
was cruel tint. Fletcher liner struck the ttereatird, sad no
•ioleote s 4 lime m hiss. As the tistrirrant was potting hint
oat uf the door, she deceased slipped and fill down the steps.
I J. Heim:ems, t 1 strjeast is the 31.1 reziment, deposed,

Kirk was then ealled.—A stoat tail marl entered the room 7
on being asked what he knew of the death of ttli ism 1;4-
ton, he said, be was connected with the pollee, anal he knew
nothing of it. It turned oat HIM be an. .tot the man.
Another Kiel' afterwards came in and was **l'M. Ile lie -
posed, that lw lived in Back Scholes.street, and winked with
Mr. Bridges, lime.mrrchant, in Piccadilly. lie was :11 the
George and Dragon with the deceased un the hate %Ideates, r.
Heand Mu other mem bad S pints of ale smutty, stoat, of which
be gave one class to W. allow. The deceased was smoktue
a pipe. Fletcher route into the room, and ordered thorn
owl. He went up to Dalton, and said, " You rascal, I se.•
what you are by your white hat." He than •track him on
the bead, mud knocked of ►is hat. After this, he eta ock
him again, and the deceased f. II against the table. kl d-
nesa remonstrated, upon which Fletcher shuck off h s t.at ;
it was not a white bat. Witness then stretched out ieis
and held him at arm►' letacth. The serjeaut then touk hold
of him, red dragged lino out of the room. He saw ter
more of Daiwa. Wheat Ise was °widde of the dose. a
woman be...mutat him leis bat. The raehliers theta seasasual
him to go home, which he dial. De eall,el the next mut aa tag
at the foundry to inquire after Dalton, but dial not see ta..a.
Fletcher sad the strjetent came int.. the path,. Goose
the anblters came some time afterwards.

Byrne Will called, bid was Ant in attendance.
Has rry was recalled oi room-ponce of Kirk's evider.re.
It appeared she, be was wit hs ihe room from which Fittchrr
and the serjout turned was the deceased; be old, ease Lon
whew he was going out wrestle the door.

Robert Pickcrittg, a lance *wipes' ill she 3111 regiment,
said hr no, one of the partylwhe cleated the t4O,Ke
D►at'••u ;he went in at the name time nib t►e Seljrmit .1
Mr. Fletcher; they all went in tu(etiteri be saw the deo-, ut
in the passaie i I.e afte►wards saw lam put urt. Mr. Al.,
cher Wag in noluthee 14/Une when the slece.ist..l was put i.ut •
Ilse deceased was nut struck ►y any person; t►e assj-art.sh.t
but push him at the door.
Culliortmi, a private is the Zest, was sworn. TI c
deposition of the last wawa* beim" read to him, ►e sapd
was true, and he Lad routine to add.
. .

Ambit. r suldirr was then celled in, but the Jury rep/radii,:
theuiselrLs rat i.fied, be was nut restaitoll. .
Mr. Ashwoi lb addressed the Jury. This wee • case sloe:.
*divined of nu doubt ; all the asetitcal men agreed its asel,h•
ine ibe death Its suffocation. Lees if there had trees se
dliTereace of of uu noune them; amt. reasinsable slouht
ex;..ted es its .he case of Ilitt death, the accutelloram refill, or
IV the benefit of that Await, sari au be tiorieMsi.
Judges always adopted this sari*.
The Corneer asked she Joey, whetlier they wished hint t,
read the tbrposilisaa. After some eiritheraalua„ a jar./ It,.
lise.tell the writtesoptaion of tbe medical rises so n. re..;.
1:614 was dour seesedingty, and the Stagy thew tunnel a vs -
dict of--hind by ettifuestnnu
• flaring actually misted dam amaller to OM petweiwitiri
we cast pciais.vely aunt, that it did wad onspeat hr l&

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ntEr4cn PAPERS.

FORM& INTELiIG

octema 6.
Yesterday morning, before Moss, the King re.
ceived, in private andierce, his Exertlency the Due
de Fernan-iinner, the Spanish Ansbatisador, who
notified to his Majesty the marriage of the King Sts
master, with the PfitiCPAl Maria Josephine Amelia,
niece to the NMI; of Saxony.
The King yesterday after mss in the Chapel
of the Tuileriel, received the oaths of the newly.
ordained Archbishops and Bishops, viz. the Arch.
boiliops of Paris, Troyes. Besancon, Aix, TOn.
louse, and Bourget, and the Budwips of Se.: and
Amiens. In tatting the oath the Prelates took the
King's hznd according to ancient custom.
Whatever the Cltra-Libcral Journals may say,
the health of the Minister of War does not seem to
improve. Since his return he has not affixed a
9ingle signature, and the Martinis bessolles aidl
perfo•ms the duty of the War Department.
On tne V'th of Meptember, the diligence which
roes from Gap to .Marseilles arrived on the banks
of the Chafere, a small river which runs under the
•:alts of Sainte Tulle, in the department of the
Lower Alps. The river was at that time swollen
by a -Violent storm, and the conductor refused to
pass it.' Overcome, however,• by the importuni-
ties of the President of the Tribunal of riap, he
entered the river, and in the midst of the torrent
the coach was upset: four passengers Were drowned,
among whom were the President, his wife, and
lati,,hter, who was only seventeen years of age.
Two other passengers and the postillion saved them-
selves. The horses were also drowned, and the
coach was driven *long by the current upwards of
.luarter of a leagne. As the accident happened
at night, and the storm raged violently at the time,
the►e was no person to give any assistance to the
unfortunate sufferers.

On the eath of September a new colony oT
about 100 Wirtemherg emigrants arrived at Arn-
-I:,i;ir on their way to Amsterdam, where they pur-
posed to embark for North America.
The Frenelf corvette Urania, employed on a
scientifrc expedition in the southern hemisphere,
cast anchor at Timor on the f!tli of October, 1 rt 1 S.
This vessel bad just left the north-went coast of New
Holland, Wiring explored • part of which Captain
Bands.' Criald Obtain no detailed knowledge.
Lie ut..Ueneral Count d' A commanding
the 11th military division, has received thirty letters
of service for an equal number of officers not on
service, domiciled within that division. They have
been called to form part of different legions.
rraerorrits. sirremnag 25.

From the Ist to the gosh of August, the ravages
wf the contagion have continued to increase in the
Isle of Leon. This dreadful mid mph' progression
is owing to the great number of indigent perion.s
who are destitute of resources and means of cure.
The number of labourers shut up in the arsenal of
V..:arraCa is estimated st 2.000.

It is now doubted whether the fret will sail.
All the letters received at Perpignam. from
Npaiw, are mould through vinegar.

who hod said in some public plats.,
things could not. remain its OitiOnfiff in titian's*.
situation as the, new are," have Alien )iillad'etepob
by order of the 'Elector tohnittAisel inqt few day's.
Every thing here :imagines 'a warlike appearance,
the ',Orients are rising toibelr full complement,
and our whole army is to be put in • condition to
take the field. it is said that it was arranged at
Carlsbad that Hesse 'should cede Hamm to Bavaria,
end thet country of Schaumburg to Hanover, and
that the Elector has declared that he will not cede a
single village.
SMARR FORT, SEPTEMBER
The ceremony of opening the free port of Odessa
took place on the 47th August, with great pomp ;
there were magnificent fetes on the occasion, and
in Oct of benevolence rendered it peculiarly inte-
resting : all prisoners confined for debt were dis-
charged.
RASTADT, SEPTEMBER 26.

The Emperor of Russia is expected at Vienna,
as well as most of the German Sovereigns, to he
present at the conferences which are to be opened
in November. It appears that the affairs of Ger-
many will be spin discussed there.

The Diet at Frankfort will not resume its la-
bours after the vacation till the end of these con-
ferences, the results of which a►e expected to be very
important.

SRUSSIII.I. OCTOB6R 4.

The last accounts from Batavia state, that the
Isle of Java and its dependencies are in the most
satisfactory situation. Above 60 vessel., of which
27 are under the national colours, were in the road.
of Batavia. The flora and the Wilhelmina had
just set sail for Europe, and were to be followed
immediately by nine other vessels, all bound for the
ports of the Netherlands.
Sir S. Raffles, whose proceedis.gs in the Isle of
Sumatra had been disapproved by the Supreme
Government in Bengal, had at length withdrawn
the detachment which had been stationed for some
months in the Lampongo, and the arrival of the
Belgic troops and civil officers at the Settlement of
Padang would palace every thing on the footing
stipulated by the treaties.
Major Nahays, who was intrusted last November
by the Commissionen•General with • mission to die
island of Borneo, has lately returned. He has
concluded conventions with the Princes of Pontia-
nak, Sambas, and Marnpauwa, in which the in-
terests of the Onvernment of the Netherlands and
that of those Princes are equally secured. He
foind the settlement at Bangermasoang, which lie
visited last, in a state of increasing prospe►ity.

BRUSSEL% OCTOBER 6.

The castle of Deposit, opposite to the French for-
tress of Civet. is fortifying with great activity.
Thus the whole line of the Meuse, from Denaut
to Yenlon, will be covered by a line of fortresses,
which will 'dace that part of our frontiers in • very
respectably state of defence,—(Brussels Papers,
October 7.1