The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-21 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

SUDDEN DEATH.
On Saturday eveuiag an iaquest was held before J. G.
Him, Esq. at the Queen's Head, Duke's-wort, Bow.
street, o• the body of William Davie, aged 64. who died
soddenly the preceding evening in the above court. The de-
ceased had bees fur • •amber of yew iu the service of
Mrs. Bailey, fruiterer sod herb.aeller iu Covent.gardeo
market.

Alexander Halliday, surgeon, stated, he attended the de.
feared, who wee insensible when be saw him, and appa-
rently dead, be bled him twice in the arm without effect.
Mather medical gentleman came •p and opened a temporal
artery, when a little blood was perceived. William said
there were no marks of violence on the body, and he coo.
aidertd be died by the visitation of God.
Sarah Brief, @cresol to Mrs. Balky, said, she knew the
deceased ; he was is the employ of her mistress, his health
was generally very good, and when be left her house a short
time before the event, he appeared to be iu pei feet health
and spirits. Verdictss-Died by the Visitation of God.

On Friday night or early on Saturday morning,
the Westminster School was entered by thieves,
who opened the kitchen door by moms or false
keys, and stole a great quantity of kitchen utensils,
&c. with which they escaped, notwithstanding that,
there are two watchmen placed near the spot, sod
that the gates of Dean's-yard had been shut at the
usual time.
The boxing match between Ben Thompson the
Berkshire Butcher, and Harry Moss the Oxford-
shire Gipsy, will take place this morning eight
miles from Dorking, for 40 guineas. The Gipsy
is the favourite.

PORK CkNERAL mriEratt
TO.eOIIIOkATULATE THE ifilfiellea.T6 alifilkilii
111111 ‘1111115.4-ANO TO VEIITION THS HOOOIt
OF COMMONS.
On Wednesday tart ffie iishtlispsets of York sett
its tricioati eissasibled iu the all ahritit twelve
o'clock. end at half-post twelve the Right lion. the
Lord Maya, occompaiiied by the two Repreorots•
titres of York, the Cite Calomel, Aldersoeu
Humility and 'fearful. the Hon. Mr. Wilda Mr.
_Monson. the Her. E. Wynn. Rev. Mr. Barker,
Mr. Pialik, Mr. Rishwortii, and several other Geis•.
titian of the city and its neighbourhood,. appefrra
upon the hustings. They were received with cheer',
and the Chief Magistrate inulardiettly eddressed
the meting overly to the following word:it—
" Gentlemen—l hold its my baud are quisition,
most respectably and most noiner.tusly signed by
the heroin* or tolosbitants of this city, upwards of
690 signatures bring affixed thereto. I purpose
in) sell the lio,mor of reeding the requisitiou to you;
the signatures als► shell he reed, alt's, from the
length of the roll, which 1 cow exhibit (adenines
the roll), you should think proper la di•peuPe
Ilserewito'
The Leib MAYott being called to the Char,
a in addressed the meeting ss follows:—" °Ms
n..... 1 could h.tire wished that your choice had
Etar
ea on some other person of ranch greater obeli.
ties; but to your decision I respectfully bow, and
ism assure you I shall use my best endeetrours
faithfully to discharge the duties of your Chair.
aten.—(Appfause.)—One remorse. however, ( hive
is make—one hope anxiously to express. The tea
quest is. that. should a difference of opinion op.
pear to prevail, every Gentleman envy be permitted
'redeliver liis sentiments without the smalleet inter.
roption—(Hear)—and the hope 1 have to express
is, that should au Address to the Throne he 'this
snarly agreed upon, it may be couched in tau.
guage so moderate said so respectful as to entitle
the prayer thereof to a favourable reception."...
(Load cheers.)
MARISADUKB %Term., Esq. the Senior Repres
tientative for this city, then came forward, and wee
received with universal applause. He said, that he
i presented himself to the gentlemen arid his brother
freemen present with the highest feelings of gratifia
cation, cud begged to congratulate them un the
islaindonitient of the Bill of Patti sod Peoeities -a
BM so obnoxious to the people of Englanel.—.
Hear, hear.j—Whatever. might be thought of the
voiles influence of the House of Lord., of of the
eloroption of the House of Comm. tie, yet in this
lastonce it appeared that they were compelled to
Attend to the voice of the people.—(dpplatfre p--
He wished anxiously to drew the stieritioii of the
eieetnig to the expenditure of the public money—
to the lavish expenditure of that money which was
extorted from the pockets of the people.—(Hear,/
It ere compare our present taxes with those of thirty
years ago, we shall find that they ere two and thirty
Millions more, toot iticlnding that abominable tat
ea import, the Coru Bill, which brings to annually
ten tailbone more.--.(Hter, hear, heur.l—fle
should naturally suppose from this, ihst the natiorial
debt must certainly have been diminished; bet
what was the fact ? Why it stood thus : The test/owl
debt had been augmented from two hundred mad
fifty millions to upwards of seven hundred retillimis.
It was not, therefore, difficult to chew that there
had been a great misapplication of the people's
money, by the present Administration—O./al—
oud he believed that if we were its prissessioo of the
mines of Peru, we should not he ahle to pay that
debt.—(Hear.)—The pteseut Government of this
country was loot a popular Government, but one sap-
ported by corruption and backed by unitary force.
Lest year 11,000 men wee added to our military
establishment—not fur the purpose of facing a fo-
reign foe, but for the purpose of suppressing pub-
lic opinion.--(Lheers.)—Ta look to the blmisters
for redress would be useless; but the people *omit%
he thought, speck with such a voice. that it would
be temetity nut to attend to it....-(Greot upplaase ,s
The conduct of Ministers towards the Queen had
been both tyre iiii teal and unjust. mid fin. allix;1
they deserved punishment.—(Hear.)--- Ty rannical.
because they condemned the Queen wi,hout a
trial ; unjust, because they proceeded against her
with a Bill of Pains and Penalties; a Bill Which
was unconstitutional, end which never should be
had recourse to, except in Cll4l of the geeattrt
necessity, which was not the case in this ill:tame,
and which, when it was resorted to, ought to be
to protect the Constitution, and not to inflinge
nitwit the rights of the people.s-s(App/aose.).—
The Queen had not been tried by twelve honest,
upright Englishmen, iudimriminately chosen ; wit
ill a Court where the accuser can ne tree s.t ; ;tot
where uottuitnity was nteessary.—but where her ac-
cusers did sit, sod where her accuser., with the
assistance of their pensioned Peer., obtained a Ma-
jority.—(Great applause.j—Bat it wee pretty ge-
nerally allowed that a foul conspiracy had been ;1
existence against the Queen; sod lie hoped that sf
it was brought home to them, whether they were
Princes, Mioisters, Ambassadors, or Agent's, the
people would not rest satisfied until they had beau
punished to the utmost of the law—roe their 1,4.1,
attempts at not only the honour bat the life of the
Queen of England.—(Hear, hear.)—Mr. Wyvill
concluded by propusiog the first Resolotioe, and
retired amidst repeated cheers.
It. CH•LONER, Esq. the Junior Representative
fur the city, next presented himself for the pwrinsee
of seconding this Resolution, and was enthusiasti-
cally cheered. He said, that he had ofteis hoe.'
called before the citizens of York on public *eva-
sions. and he thought that as those times 'iterated.
public interest Meet-seed too, by the measures of Go.
vestment. He bad frequently traversed the greatest
part of the county of York, sod never did ii.
public interest so much excited as at

moment. He heartsls congratulated the
the death of the Bill of LlegrAdatian ai
Thank God. the Bill was avid !

sloped. and coaftdestly trustcd. that flo

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Commons respecting it ; fur thscls he
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