The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-28 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

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Diowxtxo, Re--An Inquest was held yesterday before Mr.
Moos, Coroner for Westminster, at the Red Lion, Crown-court,
Pall-mall, on the body of Oeorge Silvester.
James Dimoline, 0(34, Villiers-street, Strand, deposed—Yester-
day afternoon, about three o'clock, I was walking in the Mall in
St. James's Park, and was informed by some boys that the deceased
was In the water. I undressed, and dived in, and succeeded in
getting him out. Many people assembled, a blanket was procnred,
and the deceased was carried to the sutding-house, St. James's
Palace. It was church time, and the house was closed. The land-
lord was told what had taken place, and, that though animation was
suspended, yet if means were used, the deceased might be motored.
The landlord replied—"that his was not a public-house, and he
would not receive the body, and we might do our best and our
worst." The crowd told him the object we had in view was, to
save the life of the deceased ; but he laughed at us. Time was
lost arguing with him, and we finally took the deceased to this
house.

__Mr. John Marshall, of 33, Jermyn-street, said, he was called to
see the deceased, and used means for three quarter, of an hour to
recover him • and he might have been restored had not so mucb
time have been previously lost by leis being carried from one public
house to another. The body had been out of the water half an hour
before witness was called in.

The Jury after some observations upon the conduct of the keeper
of the Suttling.house, returned a verdiet—" Accidentally Drowned,"
and requested the Coroner to write to the Board of Breen Cloth,
by whom the Sutding-house is licensed, to inform the Board of the
conduct of the keeper of the house, and of their reprobation Af it.
The Coroner said, that as every minute was of the greatest con_
sequence, at such a time, be thought the landlord was very blamable
in refusing to admit the body into his house, and promised to com-
ply with the wishes of the Jury.

Crib and Spring, the two great heroes of the pugilistic
world, have been on a tour in Scotland. where they have
reaped a profitable harvest by the display of their accom-
plishments. They were at Newcastle on the nights of Fri-
day and Saturday last, and exhibited each night ■t the
theatre, and were, on both occasions, honoured with very
crowded audiences. They passed through this city on
Sunday morning, on their way to Doncaster Races. they
travelled by the Highflyer, and when the coach stopped to
change horses, it was surrounded by a lar; e concourse of
people, who assembled to get a peep at the two chain-
pions.—Durham Chronicle.
Thursday afternoon, while the New Times Coach was
approaching Nfauchline, on the way to Glasgow, while tak-
ing a sharp turn, the pole broke ; the coach was in comic-
, quence overturned, and the driver got his leg broken, and
two gentlemen belonging to Kilmarnock, who were outside
passengers, were also hum—Glasgow Journal.
Fiar.—A Glasgow Paper of Thursday says—Early this
morning an alarming fire broke out in one of the drying-
houses of the Datmuir paper-works, which with its con-
tents was totally consumed. Other houses connected with
it had nearly shared the same fate, but by the prompt ex-
ertions of the workmen, the fire was confined to the build-
ing where it originated!!