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London, England, 1810-02-08 00:00:00

COROAER'S LI QUEST.

Last Thum'sy, an inquest was taken lo fre Mr.
T. W. Wticett a, one of the Coroners for Sussex,
on view of the body of so Italian, named Ptetro
Gentle, who port a period 10 his existence, at East
Grinstead, by dividing the arteries of both his
arms, usar the elbows, with a reser. The dreamed
arriy.-t1 at Paws Orinatead. by one of the London
eugclies, in the sfitritows of the preceding Monday,
and put spat the Crown Inn, «here he had not re-
mained long, before he took a walk round the town.
On his erviro, he refresh d himself with a Mist of
Leer, after which he took his tee with the Lundy,
and shout nitre io-the evening went to bed, appa.
rently under a great depression of spirits. 0a be-
ing asked by the cliamber-nund if he would leave
his candle for her to lake away, he answered bee in
Indian • and, 17 his motions, wished her bide. art,
which e e uiglerstood, arid withdrew. Not appear-
ing at breakfa.t-time, the next morning, the land-
lady attributed his long abidance iu bed to the ef-
fect of tangos, sloth be appeared to have under-
gone the day before, and no attempt tens mode to
doltish him till past lout iu the ulternooo, whru
suspicion arising that all was tint right, a servant
was ariit to his chamber to call hut finding
the door fast, and obtaining no answer; he got en-
trance at the window, and found tile unhappy Wall
lying 'deed, within the sheets, rrh ch were Com-
pletely glowered with hit blood. To raider the In-
Stellate of the wounds more certain awl ef6ctual,
be hod confined the heel ef the razor toils haft with
,t rib g. Lerracy.

. This it-tfintuna t Mill vtas, by profession, ft
avoltist. lilt appeared by the number of instruments
e•wtrp fur in% practice. and soine ,eta,
of mtilicial ti.e. It, of mitt:nine workmanship, that
were rotinJ in Ins rhombi r. Ills iiistrr.eed rireum-
stai.c.•, which he tondebtly comm 111 l i l ?awl to a gen.
tlennra with whom le travelled from Loudon. ■re
sippo.ert to have built the CIIII4III or 11101 desperation.
He ca. al reir..cial)le and about sixty
ye I,s of age. In Ins ps..ket a pareport. was found,
doted April, !Son. .

There was a pleat, of fat beef ors Norwich Mill
last Saturday, and much remained inueld ; *to-
lerable supply also of mutton, which fetched 9d.
per DI. 'rho !thew of lean herrits was not large,
and the sale dull. Hugs somewhat cheaper. Same
d ay, at our corn market, prices were rattier lower ;
barley in great abundance, and very diffi-
cult to find customers. Wheat 445. to 46a. ; Bar-
ley 13s. to 190. ; Oats 1 to. to lbs. per womb.

A haddock, of We extraordinary weight of eleven
pound, and a half, was exisssed, to Aberdeen mar-
ks t. fur sale, on Fridley senoight, and sold for
right-pence.
Oise day last week.* wildl-gooor,that rendered hi n-
self conspicuous, by hording with a Nock of herons,
was pursues, and shot in Alfristoa &ranks. Sasses.
Ase eagle, of extraordinary .isr, has lately committed
greet depseliocuons; in the same county, whe,e he
prove* so terrific In the tosi, 11,41 the decoy
at tt,tten M theratiy r,intered quite atitives; sot a
solitary dock risrel avian, hit. 'this tyrant or the
sir had, havrev.t. 1.4 art It. a very narrow escapes,
the ball or a ritle-pieres rk•ch griped at :Om, haring
struck the pass es which he sat perched.

roar thommtol menM;:nitbßeseintid, all Dutch troops,
cosonsatidod by littoral Hetioco, assisted by Generals Teat-
ime., Cattletligets, and the third rune not known.
Yost Data pat in a state of defence, a quantity of 1111111111-
aitiuu and caution had arrived from Heinen up loom.
A retrearbwent furnished by a chain of cartoon to defrost
a creek. A redoubt is erecting.
Au order has hero scot to Terve. to provide quarters for
wt it, Freud. troops, but noose did arrive us yet.
Cameral DuinollCClU comenutds its Vinnll-1.11110410, who
two limo three tinny in South Devi-land to inspect.
fieacrel Seroadotte came to halt, iosperted the works,
sod canard a selection to be made of all l'oriteli and Fienlinil
soldier*, oho were thecharged from the Dutch service, and
are scut to Brabstot.
Three Mottle. d rigtonen, with fear field viten, are at the
Ferry opposite the sloo.
Wolvetselyke is garrisoned by alto oven.
A detaclutient of about eo wee, Vetch wittier', come to
patrole in North Brvetatol from fichoweo. . •
Admiral Yerhuel has nosed a ptuelainatiou that all twin-
mit ideation s ith Wskherto is to be cut off
St phosher 13, tato).
No. I.—Di.paiel, from Lieutenant-Getters; lie Eyre Coate
Yisroutit Castlereagh, dated Middleborgh, ..egth Sep-
ber, Inn!).
Ml' Lone--I hove bad the honour of your Lordship's
dispatch of the tath turd. hy the rcturu of lay ante de-camp
Captain Woolley.
My letter of the 101 l last. will hare informed your Lordship,
that any aasiet, to remove the sick to Enghool had not sof.
fercd Inc to await the receipt of issametioin without effect.
A selerrton of 2,014 of 11w moat proper cases for each a re-
moval It.ts made by my orders, but the boisterous state
of the o ea.lo 1, which has prevented the !fhb Light itra-
looms from 14'41 inZ the basin of Flotation to make rouses fur
other trans:torts, has not allowed see hitherto to embark the
sick oldie reliant-et.
I regret most sie.esrely, that other essential services should
hews rendered it slower impossible to provide au erlaspeate
and immediate simply of m.111111•111ifIntlfe for the auddeu
and um-spirted ealasuitys inch loss fallen upon tin. army.
Your Lordship may satisfied that no esertiom have
bees omitted by me to call in every aid, awl grocer, every
comfort which can he, obtained front she resources of this
island, in addition to our own. I feel too seusility the distress-
ing eitostion of the troops, to neglect any waste by which
• can hope to relieve their autos Of ild1111.1fIn• 1111-11. C 04111111.111.
The inclosed ropy of a letter address-el by Hoy military
Secretary to the setts; inspector of hospitals' with 100 sn-
eerer, will prove to your Lordship that I had not beta tor
mindful of the 3111/41,41111 that might perhaps have hetet de-
rived Ave the medical practitiusess 111 111711Chcell.
The evil, I 1411111114 to say, increases daily ;
send BroWne, where a brigatie, originally a very atrono out,
ie stationed at Attempts' and St. Joestland, was ander the
seeessoy, yesterday, of reduciag hit piopieta at the Sloe
Passage trues on to 513 men. This day he has seported b;s
inability to permit more thou ma for that iinetortnot
duty
1 Imre been obliovd to remove the two regiments in !ft.
Joestland ; one of them, the Slat, bad not e s use ails t u
can) anus. 1 have the honour to be, La. •
To Viscount Cast:ereagh. LYRE COItTE.

•
(Find inelosure rt: rred to is No. 4;

M iddlelarg, wt. la Septa Wren 1864.

SlR—T.ientemst-Gearrit Sir Eire Curate 'feeling it a duty
ke owes to himself to establink the. far 3„ Oink nit measures on
his part have hem winding to pt cidtive fur the trioys Ilia
advantage of sorts aordteal aid as the ensnare would nitwit,
in addition to our own rcantecea; I have keen itirertill by
him to require diet yen will state, for his ma Whietion, whe-
ther he did nut, upwarits nftbrwe weeks ago, sir-commend t bat
you should call in the assistance and advice of the medical
gentlemen of this island, and whether it is not in your Know.
h that hr made the tame representation to Mr. 11114pOlt.
tor %Yell!). Of the objections made by Mt. Webb anal your-
self to thin proposition, it is not for Sir Eyre (vote to i•or ;
bat it has hermitic neecssary to prove, that no mesas hare
been n. alerted by hint that would add to 'the swat:tore of
oar leak. YO4I will be pltued, thertiorr, to state to me, is
writiur, your motives for liariuz Act hued the proposal made
to 5 its in I he wanner above mentioned.
I YID directed to aeaU myself of this opportunity to impair,
what pansmasts ofilmelt is now in Mane fur the sick.
1 Lave dm Loam, t is he. rx.
Iturrovni. Esq. THOSIAS %VA, LSII, Mil. See.
akettag Insyn.ttor of guspitals.

(Stoma loelesor, rtfrrred to ,n No 4 )

eborz. tat% Sept.silber, lenq_

Pro-4 have the hnooar tss actilowlede; the receipt of
your letter of this day's slate, asitl to state' that, iu the essursoe
of toy several commumiratinos with Sir Eyre Coate, on the
abject of the SOtillbeill prevailis `in the arm) under lot coin.
nand, amongst the stenos propositions sugtestcsl bs site es-
treate auxict, as well to stop the progres% of shwas, sin to
reader every comfort and accommodation to the sinfurtiniate
atarYtel., 1.114 of employing esPdiesi gentlemen of the
',timid to act in the arduous duties of the owcl,4:al ticpartlucut
was mimosas d.
. . .

I hes kayo to slate that my objections to the shore pro-
posal were founded 00 lire iesdirereut op. I entertained
of the skill soil abilities of the proctitiemets in this lows,
and the- iiiip:ohatulity wf Isrinc aisle to eilgstri• in oar r rages
medical own of any exprriencr no the treatineut of disease ;
the total nupossi:eitity of the *sett soldiers being able to ex.
press the symptoms which 01.11.1(1..4,w this disease in lan.
[nage to he understood, N.. 10,1 of itself preclude she possi-
bility of our drawing soy ai:i.lotage from the adoption of
Ibis 9114'AIIIITIF.

Agreeably to your orders, I hive to report the grautity of
hark ih mute annum' to :toolln.
I have the honour to Isr, flu.
FR A NCIS HI RRO‘IS,
To Calomel Wal.h. At tine losperior of Hospitals.
No. s.—llispalch from Lieu - .e teed RIF Lyre Come lu
ViAl.VOlit eistleteagli, dated Nliddieliorgit, it„)th Septets.
bre, I 5..0
Mt I.on o—The inclosed letter from the Inspector of
Itoopostls, ua tho Kam-Atom! of Mottos port whit in lien
&spins* to Cm entivaltwritts in the prioloortitio of on.. pot
ppsa day to tech unto, I have the humour to tranantit for your
Losdabip'setsisiderainia.
Oftha heathen! Arm of auebisensore, I hare not the least
doubt, bat we have seareety a oulTatirney of Imo *jar for mg
sick, for lb* prevent i mud the speautity that would be required
to serve It out to upwards of solos convalescent, makes it
necessary that supplies of that artirk ithOlild be. at nt (tom
Emilmid, if it !Rimind he thought tolvis.,hie to adopt the re-
conenteuAlatima of Mr. Inspector Burettes.
I take dos opportunity of reporting to vont Lordship, that
empty :MOND, owdrr of hook sow lemma in more, • gusts
City out wore thin "efficient 1,, answer the evonautption ul
bur IX live days. I bust the hussar to he, &r.
(Signed) EYRE COOTE.
Visa-own Castlereagh, &e.

(loriossor referred to in No. 5 I
3liddl, bus 0), 29111 Sept 1804
. .

Stm—l have permed the papery you'Lave dw.e me the
►onuor ..f ref trine to miy consideration, and I folly rancor
in the opini delivered he Co...tiel Walker, 11041 I
Colonel .t I array, mv to tt,e benedieial effects to be eap.rted
fro. go immte of port wine or porter to m unvale,e4 ut. fro.
fewer.

•S 3 Memoir., to recommend the former in preference la
the 'att. , mot that the quanta), shall not reefed one ptat
each man I have the honour to he, &c.
(Melted) I'. MUM IttS,
Lieul.-Colonel tt alsh, Act's" Inspector of I li"pitala.
&c. ikc

No. 6 —l)isiintrh from lienironnt-tiener,l Sir fere Coot*
to Viscount ('astir faith, tti:•tliMmigio,
MY Loa o-1 laity li.oteait-
igjr for year 1.014111.10 inturaistoni, the cipj of a /MU

Stn—la the present distressfal state of the estdiral ser-
vice is tbip Wand, the most important measure fur the relief
of the sick consists iu finding the ready means of treneport-
ation to England, for as many as eau hear beiug conveyed
with ....Joy The imertribrions state of the air is such, that
hardly any have recovered sufficiently to return to effective
deity , mud great Dowding' whoa untrue,
had to • state of
convalescence, have relapsed. The unfavourable aisle of
accommoiletion and supplies is also such as to call for the
utmost exertion. to nave the lives of the convaleseente, and
In make room for that sime.ssiou of recent and scale cases,
which, we arc sun y to say, coutinae daily to prom fur admit-
tance into the vai.mis hospitals at the different stations in
this Island. IVith a view to provide the adequate means
for this important iiece a service, we beg leave to state,
that as the tearoom ts have bia,a fiend highly iocuintineltuus,
daugeroots, aud imidequate, we tale: the hberty to euureot,
that the cooly safe, i eery, and effectual means of perform-
ing this service, untold be to send from England sox ur seers
shtris of the line, Si ki no pester complemeut of see them
wonlol hat veffiroeut to •avigate the ; the gulls 14 the lower
deck being taken out, with • saffici.mcy of huoirourks for
or. men. The num' er of men saw in this bilari.l in • .tate
to lie thus ruoveyed, as compute to Ire front 5 to 6,0ut0, and
they are daily accuroutatior. Argo uget "flier reasons for
'whittling iloiy mode of conveyance, we beg to epecify, that
the sandier of Iledival Offirt ra berets out greater than what
is required at the ho.pitale, and that the Surgeous and As-
sistant Stirr,eusid .n 1 the Navy, not being liable to sea Ark.-
, mess, which freopiently dealoles entirely lbo !Medical Offiriers
of the Army from &nig their duty, would be foetal peto.
harly well far taking tare of three men on their
paa,sge. It is indeed atoorolately irupoesible flu the laud ter-
rier to humid, a fluffiest attendant fur earl vessel, according
to the purseut walk fit cogiVeyruCC. We hare, &v.
(Signed) Glt.liEßT HLAINIft,
James Nl•Gregor, M. 1). Ail. Phyosiciaa Geu.
losepector of Army Hospitals.

7.—Dispateb from Liententrat-Gentral Sir Eyre Coate
to Viscount Castlereagh, aliddlebery,, 3d Oct idea.
MY I.o.o—Dr. Ell'Gregriv, the inspector of hospitals, has
jest reported to me the argeut necessity of at least StIJ Ora
of one of the veteran battalions, tieing seat out here, to be
employed as or 'erlies la the humiliate.
I are myself well aware of the expediesse.y of this measure,
from the iliflieulty that exists in moo), regiments of provid-
ing orderlies for the pruportion of sick in their own himpitals•
but .be want is still more forcibly felt is Me peeved hospitals.
A detachment of so rauk sod tile of the 7th Royal Veteran
Rattalkon had originally beta embarked fur th s easeutial
service, but that 'umber, so disproportionate in itself the one
ormicroas sick. has been very considerably Illualitislted by the
'Leta of sicker...
I have therefi.re to request that your Lordship will Ira
pleased to adopt the sesestiory amass/es fur baring 14:4 de-
'tirade succour *eat out to this islood, hills the least pus- •
idulc delay. A proportimi isitelligeot non-cotumissimieJ
tinkers rill Le eel/Sneed to set MB hospital clerks sail
stewards. 1 have, etc.
Viscount Castlereagh. (S.gurrii*, EVA E CCiOTE.
No. tr—Ctips of a dispetch from Lieut.-Gesieral Sir Eyre
Coot, to Viseutot Astlecesgh, dated Alidsheimirgh„ tots
Oriole r,
MY Loan-1 am to repast, fur the information of your
Lordship, that the eittrition of the sick esintient a much the
snare 1111 .11,11 I lent last the honour to addict. you. lacitship
on that aubiret. 'lie Melaka! daily state rill vise the hest
isitni mattock of their Numbers, which, I regret to say, still
increase.
The sad Ilaritiatall Aso bees entharked and has sailed for
England. It was so compfetely AGra do renOut, that it au
eotivc-yed from !beret to Radium in wtoestie
This day I have ordered item sick soot riiiivalceeenta. Se-
lected front thoorlinle army, to be pat nn build ship. RIO I
hope that, if die grind trimmers fair, they wolf tai this oven-
in:, In the. coarse of at day or t wo, a isewood enahorl. at mu.
of nearly doublethat extent, will lake piece, which n:11 mial
greatly to clear owe reenacd hospitals and triune our me •
dash officers of RUM!: pert of their lat:enions 'doll An ex-
periment is likewise to Ise tried by sending a portion of this
euiicali•arceisim hoard the Ash, anal Redress:it' hospital ships,
to try the 'fleet of a. charge of Mc.
bone large drafts, added to the numerous suck and cool-
ish:scents leataining here, have rendered our effeetsve force
so airy trivial as to make the defeoce of the Islanti, if it'
should be attaricerl, extremely precarious. fume Lordship
most ext use my adirertinz sn frequestly to this subject, for
I e winos he atippused insensible to the critical situation iy
which I aat thereby
!um Lordship sill also pardon my anxiety to he informed
of the intention of His 31ajesty's lioveroment, us to the fu-
ture fate of Waleberea, as that lowa ledge will very emote-
tially affect the measures a arch I shall thee elerin it
sae) t. pursue. If it is 10 be kept, an object of the eel,
first 111111001111 re nowt be the primer arc halos of the
mops daring the approaching wooer, to all the severity of
wind), in their present unsheltered state, they must unavoid-
ably be exposed.
Shiny of the houses occupied in Flushing, as tempurary
barracks, are half ininnifed ; and the delicielicy of ,
meat and labourers, exclusive of the waist of lime, brick*,
and other materiels, MOW the partial repairs I have order.
ed le proceed very slowly.
The regime tar., owing he their sickly state, sun lei .g ah'.e •
is give say workmen, I have been under the necessity or Chao
pluying too of the itthalstaute Co the pressing repair of the
bar. ache sail forlideatious at Flirslstog and l'ecre. The ex.
peorlience 'hue nveasitsaeti is very oustioth noble, and sill be- ,
come still snore se, if we art to retain the 1,1 tad, as lit that
ease these repairs and additions must be Made more
toil and permanent.
Much distress and consequent sickness arise from the
want of cookin4-places and I:t asslog-Loba. s at the several
lunge building* occupied la. the is oupe 11..11" Vor sr) bat. licks;
to lung as the Warta and dry wo Asher coot:aura, the soldiers
could manage to cook in the 01..11 air but that can as. Imager .
be the care vibes the rainy sad Nome sisumu w at.
Another great privation, tastier wiiick Ihe sloops ta10n..., is
the slut of their heavy baggage and satna clothing, left in
Eilftlalld, • gra mthly to under, when they rattle Oa Silts rev, sus.,
If ae are en naiu bare, no time alallll4 be lost in forwanling
these e.sesitilit articles.
An Asaistuat-Inspector-Generrd of Barracks, and three
easntauts, have solved Isr r., conformal...ly to your Lordship's
letter of the Was September, but their i-sdiuctioue Sr. sak-
i) SO return 11,0111 the state stet ciontstion oi the bs.caciss,
and billeting.. avespied as ant it, sad to iestroct is ii, ha,-
rack duties those oaken who may be sprouted to art as
Barrack Matters in this Island. They hare au authority to
incur expense in the semenr to aehlitiutis Peet-surf to Koller
the herraek. hahatalihe doting the winter, awl I Ihrret.ne
fear that their mission will be found totally melees, as far
as regards the iniprovemeats of barrack seeironuottutioir in
Walchteen. I have, fie.
(Signed) LYRE COOTE.
To Vanessa' Castlmujit, far.
-
On the 214th ult. thehod. of JOSEPH Att.ta, a
well-dressed man, about is years of age, shoe
father is a resitlent of Stainb,,rough, in the e
of York, was thisnal in the canal it, the perish or
Spolidou, near Derby. From the appearaac« of
the body, it is .ieppos...l it had lain iu lite teeter
some weeks. lie lied in his pocket a Imakers re-
ceipt for 14.501.. which led to the elite .very of his
frieudot; but no money. or -• of soy nti.e«lr •
seription, was Pond upon Lion. A Coron..r's in-
quest was held on view of die L 0.1,,,
want of evidence, could not come to any •utasfAc•
tory Cella ellieli ea to List Collet Of bid death.

The early port of the month wm fitverauunlo fur pluirgtlnt.
up the land fur spring curs, and turnip (Akins ; genie mam,
awl bests were spa ti at that time. Ernin the Mildness tine
faintest: of the a rather, the Burks ou die thr\Vrik did remak-
ably well, and the seams was not lase fayourahle to ihua!
feediu: ea trirsips, which insetted, conSitierably, the coo*
amnia ion of hay--et this time the young wheats War groo-
m; too rapidly, sad the •Irmaipt were running fast togrecia;
but the dual, setting is shout tbe middle of the utontb, pat
a toil stop to vegetation, and gave a hue opportunity ut.
wanting mat manure un the meadow and wet hada, moat of
which sorb was daine during its continuance; the frost sett i;,‘
iu very- scare, the viscep ware ,quite shot utf turnip., wid
thus. flunks +bids depend on dirt useful vegetable for their
winter support, bare ant since dour so well. The earl; *mirk
common tannin, are very much rotted with the fruit ; Ihum
farmers that bare been (orientate lib damning good crops'ttloe
Smilisla kind, w ill 11°1i-fore bud them nsolkolsely tin ful the
tutting sprint. The first his meliorated the' strung dap,
▪ as to make Smut work well for spring sowing, a linsistm
which the farmers in the VreWil will be getting°. with Very
fast, should the weather reetione, as at present, open, er
enheswim. Ist-um able. The late frost boa apparently de-
at royrd tin, eggs deposited so generally in strong 6lmy.lwigs,
on our hedger, is the vicinity of the sea; sad, lit ettposni
situations, it has also reached the destructive insectddbe de-
posited he the grand. The great redaction is the price at
Wheat effected in Stark-lane, by the immense isipsdatios
of that article duns: the month, ban sot yet reached skis
part id the couutry, as wheat fetched, on Saturday last, is
Lewes market, from :al. to 235. 1(S• per load; Plmley from
us. to 431 per quarter; and lists from AS. to 31s. per /or.
ter.Butcher s rout, with the exception of muttame, seamy
ea
per last report; good wetber mutton is somewhat dearer.

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