The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-09 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST'S.

Wednesday an, inquest was held at the King's Arms. Newrte-
Market. on the body of W. Elliott, who put a period to his exigence
by cutting Ms throat at his lodgings, 36, Piternoster-row. It will
perhaps be recollected by our readers that this person took an active
part in the late We!Rtininster Election in the interest of Mr. Hunt
but in consequence of the " Orator's" genie behaviour, he disclaimed
all further connexion with him. The declassed lodged with Mrs.
Thompson, and according to the evidence of several witnesses. he
had been a Commission Agent for two houses in the wine and spirit
trade, but hail been for sonic trine depressed in mind, in con :equence
of not being able to get into business. Ills wife had died about eight
or nine months ago, which seemed always to have preyed upon his
mind, and when speaking of her to Mr. Want, of the Salutation
Tavern. Newgate Street (one of the witnesses), he shed tears. He
also told Mr. \Vont tharhe wa. very uneasy about the non-payment,
of some hand bills which Mr llnnt had ordered him to get punt •d.
and which not having been paid, application had been made to hint
fur the money. On Sunday a medical gentleman was called to the
deceased, whom he found in a high fever. Wednesday he saw hint
again, when he complained of something pushing him to jump out
of the window. On Monday night the deceased sent to Want, who
came to him ; and he s:.id to Mr. W. " I hive got cheeks for thou-
sands, my boy, and I want you to do something for me in the Ci
tomorrow. They are things, you know, which ought not to besuf-
fered to lie by."—Verdict—lnsanity.
On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the Crown and
' Cushion. Little Russell-street, Covent Gardap, Wire M. Lewis.
Coroner, on the body of Mr. Charles M•Carthy, formerly an of& r
in the service of the Emperor of Austria. who fell down dead in the
Pit of Drury Lane Theatre on Monday night last, and expired jest
at the moment Mr. Keats was representing the dying scene in Richard
the Third.

Mr. James Cole. intrgeon, corner of York Street. Covent Garden'
being sworn. said as follows:—" I was sent for to attend a gendcmats
who was said to be dying or dead, in the Pit passage of Drury Lane
Theatre, about halt past ten o'clock on Monday night last ; I at-
tended immediately. and found the deceased supported on a stool, near
the money takers office ; life appeared to be extinct ; nevertheless.
I thought proper to open a vein in the arm. and al-o the temporal ar-
tery, but could not prodisee•blual ; and I found it useless to attempt
any thing further. My opinion is that the deceased died in a fit of
apoplexy ; and since I have viewed the body at the request of thi
jury, that opinion i. confirmed."
Henry Edward Church, 29, Devonshire Street. Surgeonjattended
the deceased with Mr. Coles, and A:mak:nal in ,every respect his
evidence.

James Davies, constable of St. Faurs, Covent Garden, sworn, said.
" I was on duty at Drury Lane Theatre on Monday night. and waa
standing in the pit lobby at about 20 minutes past ten o clock, as the
curtain fell at the conclusion of the tragedy, and was informed that
gentleman had fallen down in the pit, and appeared to be dying. I
went to him immediately, and found the deceased in the arms of seve-
ral persons who were supporting him 4 I assisted in carrying him
into the passage of the pit. and • female, who appeared to feel in-
terested for the deceased, and who. I thought. belonged to him. ran
forsome water. The surgeoas arrived shortly after, and after attempt-
! ingto blee.l him, ordered him to be removed to this house. and there
they tried further means, but to no effect. I examined the deceased's
pockets. and found the envelope of a letter, on which was written—
' Ches. M'Carthy, Esq. Bull Inn. Biehopsgate Street.' Upon ap-
plying there, I found that was the place of his residence. Th.
sealed packet cow produced is all the property I found upon the .ds-
ceased:.
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Maj,rr Albert D'Alton of the army, residing in Conduit Street.
stated, •• The deceased is distantly related to me, he had been lately
at Paris, and was on his way to his family at Dublin ; but remained
in 1.0 idon fur a few days for the purpose of seeing a few friends.
I received a letter from him a few days ago, informing me that he
bad a tit of the gout. Deceased was not a married man ;he was a
gentleman of a highly respectable family, and formerly was so
officer in the Austrian service." Verdict—Died by the vigilante-.
of God.

Thor:Jay evening an incest was held at the Golden Lion. Deass
Street, Soho, Li..fure Ilugu Lewis, Esq. Coroner, on the body of
John %Villain%

Nicholls, 23, Gerrard Street, Umbrella makei,The
ceased was between 50 and the years of age, and was in the habit of
coming to my house the last 11 years ; he held a situation is the
Barrack Department, lender General Delauncy, and retired on hail
pay ; he held some freehold in his native country (Cheshire), to
which he retired ; Monday last, about 12 o'clock, lie came to my
house and sat in the front parlour in the chair. He said he was
going to Paddington. He sometimes dined with me. In about vu .
minutes after he clone, I heard a noise as if he was rapping with his
stick. I sent up the servant maid, who soon returned, and I went
to him, and found him lying upon the floor. I sent for Mr. Dickson.
a surgeon, who came directly. The deceased only uttered a few
wards, " Oh dear ! Oh dear ! what is the matter ?" He was dead
before the surgeon arrived.
Mr. Edward Dickson, surgeon, 66, Wardour Street, Sohr, stated.
that he was, called upon to attend Cie deceased, and found hi"; at the
house of last witness, lying upon the floor, quite senseless ; he con-
ceived him to be in a fit, and he got him on a sofa in the room ; he
made an effort to get his arm out of his coat, but it was deemed
proper to cut it, and then he opened a vein in the arm, and got
about four ounces of blood ; bled him behind the neck, NJ could
not get any more blood ; applied leeches, they took hold, but got no .
blood pulsation then =vied, and respiration was very short ; he
died in five minutes afterwards ; conceives that he died in a bt of
apoplexy.
Tile Coroner and Jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evi-
dence produced, and they returned their verdict—Died in a fit of
apoplexy.
A Jury was also summoned at the Crooked Billets, Rateliff High-
way, to hold an inquisition before .1. W. Unwin, Esq. Coroner, 9U
the remains of the unfortunate suffemrs, Mr. John Bonner. nod his
son, Jehr. Bonner ; the termer aged 27, and the latter aged 4 years,
who were Lurnt to death on Monday morning last. There seemed
to be no grounds fur supposing that the premises were set lire to in ,
any other manner than by pure accident, and accordingly the ver-
dict was—Accidentally burnt to death.

The Surrey Adjourned Sessions at Newington closed on Monday. .
In the numerous calendar of olfzialers was a man named Charles
Brown, 59 years of age, who had ben brought up to the sea ; he
was found guilty of an assault with ir.tent to commit a rape on Louisa
Murehey, a child seven years old. the infant slaughter of a labour- .
ig man li%ing at Rotherhithe. The child, from its intelligent is .
plies, appearei aware of the consequences of an oath, and was there-
'bre sworn : her avide,needirdowal such a scene of brutal conduct on
the part of the prisoner. that the whole Court was moved with hall,th
nation against hint ; and the worthy Chairman intimated, that Mut
he been capitally indicted, he would justly have had to pay the forfeit
of his life. lie WAS sentareed to two year. imprisonment. Among
other eases of peculiar depravity, developed at these Ft:scions, was.
that of Mary Poole, who.was tried and acquitted on a charge 9f
stealing a 31, note; it appears that although she is not twenty veers
of age, yet she has been upwards of jI/' flouts y in custody I—'keen
prisoners, convicted of picking pocket,. and other felomas, in Cam-
berwell, Lambeth, and the Borough, were sentenced to seven years'
transportation.
A rev p 1 ,hts since, the house of Mr. J. Chapman. of Ilolyfiekl •
Ilan, in the parish of Waltham Holy Cross, in the county of haws.
was broken open by a very numerous spd daring gang of robbers,
amounting to ten or twelve men, turned and disguised. Thee plun-
dered the house and premises Of property to a very large amount;
among it were Bank notes to the amount of 741. four ante ••
variety of seals, chains, &o.: onaint. the watches wan ?.,ah „olri
nor. The ga'rg made their rhcape wi ' the
p t npr tit,anti rono.i4 still unt:ih.o.. ri •

t Woo %ridge fies.sloin; „a tin. anon came laore
the v.: to the pas.tioA. of One eceututts this
04.1:,ers of Itollesley. • It slip...arid that. they
wore in the lialait of allowing the ittrge footers to hire
1 'tourers at an under raw, and of up their
wit4...s out of a rate levied on the inhabitants generally ;
wher:ler small fanners ter s'am!;.....epers, to the manifest
advantage of thc large occupiers. The Nlagistrates de-
tbeir decision, that they disallowed 6sl. los. of
the me;:tratits, which, with a balance that appeared in
the book. of 951. 13s td. making in all d.
they directed to he paid °vet the succeeding /deers.
They timber desimd to e‘prcss their ahhorruuce of the
principle on which tln: ufil,•cr? of 1-1:11orLy acted, and
17uim.1 their deci,ion ivould.likave the 'lt:sired efflict.
Sir PrioLis Bin-lett nearly met with swiaus acci-
ttni., a f..nv clays sitaee, while hunting. Ile was riling
over u tract of %Ohte is called rotten land, and had just
lauitte..l at the difficulties or some other vortsineo,
when be tea.; Iliwsolf thrown out of the stirr.ips. Ile
escaped, however, without being muck hurt. The
au.onet is at his sea'., Ilanislierv-tuanor, IViltshirc, and
he was hunting with Mr. Ward's hottuds.
Mr. Gaythurne Butt's Action against Sir Nathaniel
Conant, for false imprisonment, will he tried in the
Clairt of Cominon Pleas, during the sittings in or after
the present term.
'Pie report of the termination of hostilities in India,
by the sut•reniler of the Peishwa to Sir John Malcolm,
continued. The intelligence is contained in dis-
patches frotu Bombay. The Peishwa was to he con-
veyed to Bemires.
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BioAmv.—At the Old Bailey on Saturday, Samuel
Taylor was tried for mirrying Harslet Festengeon,.
Mary, his former wife, being still living The prisoner
js a tailor, and his former marriage with Mary Hayler
w.is proved to have taken place in the parish church of
St. Mania in the Fields, on the 4th of January last.
Harriet Festengeon, who possessed a little money and
a good at of furuititre, was prevailed upan to marry
him ; en the lf;th of March following, atter having
spout her money, and pawned her furniture, he abscond-
ed, leaving her in a deplorable state of distress, and
pregnant and she was finally driven to the necessity
of going to the workhouse, when!, she was afterwards
braught to bed. These facts being proved in evidence,
the prisoner WWI called on for his defence, and he said,
t.,at he considered himself a widower, hut he forAore
to call evidence to hoar him out in that presumption.—
The July without the slightest hesitation pronounced

&great disturbance took place in the Tower about
4 o'clock yettterday afternoon, in• cousequence of the
appcurance clone of those gentlemen callus " Dandies"
..itatong the company who its.scuibled on the promenade I
v, hear the military hand. The " Danzly," whose
Cheeks were highly painted, was pushed from side to
und, ut Lst, was :to roughly handled, thus he was 1
obliged to seek protection from the sohlios. The same
parson appeared on the public walk, in the Tower,
veAertlay week, when the people threatened to pull off
]pis stays, &c. His re-appearance yesterday increased
their di,gust and indignation. Ile was received with
liisses faun both sexes, anti would have been driven
from the walk, had he not sought shelter in the guard.
room. Seventl hundred persons wcro present.
The Lord Chaneyllor, on Friday, gave a written
copy of the judgment he had formerly deliveted in the
Case Tempest v. Ord. Each of the parties received
copy of it, in order that, when the appeal comes on in
the House of Lords, the grounds of the decision may
Le oecuratuly known.
Mr. Scrjcant Vaughan and Mr. Gazelee are confi-
dently spoken of in Westminster Hall, as the new
Itrri.,ic Judges.
Timr,dAy senninht a fire was di-covered in a 1!;111
eariheaware shop sr the lialf‘sily Port•nruiiih,k,ill.
the Uiltrilitre t'uiisl which wa. sitenili-d
the Latilliite to death of a girl of 16,.and a boy of I I Veal's.
4.r „„ acurehlag Of it WOalJit ro ,everely Ihat I•er tilt hr
fie... Hirt(' ut; and the hreaLinc of all aria WWI al hel WWl'
a young stall; with the total deAtriiciion of the
Vow and every article therein.

ce broke onhow Monday thorning *bent thr,,e o'clock. at
1.1. 31r. Bonner, a taihu, na Uattlitt-1111;'i0:ty.. The
•Illeg bora Out in the lows c pall of the the whole
ut.• t6r 1111.111i,l'a wage involvtql in it A:o4i of p.neral rotitta.
g,,li,S+ll hi foie any 51.44 riven. NI r, coal Mrs-. B. who
'crowed the first intimation front the stnol.e wlueli pi Iterated
Shelf bed room, called these,. vant, and endeavoured to secure
the children and escape. Mr‘. B. tried to get to Illy Fiiu..
; bat finding that i111111)Si4a111.. want to the h... pair of
stairs nindow, and called to the w :et Innen to catch her child,
which the threw down to them. The child's fall was larick..c,
I.\ the unit of the watchman, and it was token op not nia.
ti-s jails; hart. Mrs. B. DEM precipitated het self down ; but
thigh. and is in a state that leaves aeareely any
hopes of her iteOlery. The at rvatit Fill endeavoured to
ass ske 11,e other child ; but fatilicic that difficult, and b/ iuC
pa esssd I. the smoke name., she jiiiiipcd nett of the 1,..r1.
atinittnt utter the nail of St. Gt .11i;e4
!aid. ;sic. 11 in en.ll.3%ollring lo isave Isis boy, dew to the
.4 which tk•• se: sant 1.14. and %glide iii the am of opening
411.0 door, die tie c &,:ire way. and they were piecipitatilt
samis the ruins Ili • At Sri a in the mottiiii:
'toil '4llll e. 11.. tt..l to an andertiket's ; those of his
%yr,. oil At it much later hour. 'the
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TIM NMiittivAL itTeMSTES

postsaipt.

NOID-Ir, i'IVELVE o'cLocx.

The Qt:een continuing' in a very weak and low state,
the Prince Itegt:nt did nut leave Kew till about half
past 12, tin Loudon.
Yesterday morning early, the Physicians sent off an
express, with * full statement of the situation of the
Queen. The Bulletin is as follows:

•• Kcw Palace. Nov. 8..

" The Queen para.-N1 the eveniThr of ycsterdp.y very uncomfortably.
and hx, h:ui a restless nigiu 4 but there mstAal alter:Mon In
lie; ,Nl.4jebty'll symptoms. " NIIUMAN.
" 11. 11ALF011D."

His It Tal Highness the Prince Regent went-to Kew
is the aftvranon, and remained during the whole of the

eve ting.

The Mosquito sloop of war, Captain Brine, arrived
at Portsniouth in the afternoon of Saturday, with dis-
patches'fiom St. Helena, which island she left so lately
as the '!9th of September. All communication with
this vessel having been interdicted for twenty-four
hours, the only thing stated positively by the Ports-
mouth Editor with regard to the despatches which she
brought, is tint they were of very great importance."
Captain Brine, who left Portin:oath in a chaise and
tour for London, at half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday,
arrived in town at an early hour yesterday morning.—
Earl Bathura king at his seat near Putney, Captain
Brine proceeded thither; and soon after a meetiut, was
held, at which Lords Liverpool, Sidi:loath and :1171%411e
were present. The Council lasted four hours. Various
rumours were afloat in consequence.
The Times says—We have heard, but we should be
sorry to pledge ourselves for the fact. that Mr. O'Meara,
who lately officiated as medical attendant on Buono-
parte, has been removed from his Britannic Mijesty's
service. The' eircttmstauces from which this aileged
removal has arisen are described to us to be ofli nature
which will not admit or their being concealed. It is
said that the Doctor has charged the Governor with a
proposal to him to poison the prisoner.
A considerable degree. of uneasiness was excited
during the last wee':, in consequence of certain indica-
tions of u rebellious and reliactory spirit among the
boys at Eton College. For several 'days they kept the
town in a state of uproar, and in their own immediate
quartets did some serious mischief; as well as offered
time grossest indignities to Dr. Keate, the head of the
college. At first it was apprehended that all subordi-
nation was at end, and that it would be impossible for
the business of the institution to proceed : by the firm
and decisive conduct of Dr. Keate, however, aided by
the other masters, and by making a proper example of
some of the ringleaders, peace was restored, and on
Saturday the whole of the school had returned to a
proper sense of. their duty.
co VENT GARDEN THEATRE.

The tragedy of Othello was performed on Saturday ,
evening at Lids theatre, when an actor, whose name is
Yates made his first uppearance in the character of
Ito. This gentleman comes from Edinburgh, where
be enjoyed, we believe, a high reputation in his pro-
fession ; and our neighbours are allowed in matters of
taste to be no meat: judges ; we-therefore felt our ex-
pectation greatly raised by the announcement of this-
new performer. It would have been thrtunate, perhaps,
if we had expect( d less. Mr, Yates does not appear to
us to soar above that class who are termed es.iii/ actors.
ut least his lap), as character, exhibited very few of
those masterly touches and indications of superi9r genius
which ‘N e expect from the man who appears as the re-
presentative. of that consummate hypocrite and villain.
Mr. Yates drew him rather as a common place, vulgar
schemer of mischief; and delivered the part in the
colloquial familiari:y of comedy. lie appeered to have
uo ecnsciousness of the Successful progress of his designs,
end sufkrcd the aloft important scenes to languish far
want of energy. The great merit of Mr. Yates is
his. delivery, which is very clear and distinct. His
action is easy- and unembarrassed, without any
appearance' of study. His person is not very
striking or eulculated to convey the idea of dignity ;
in statue be is rather below the middle size ; his leatures
are strongly toadied, but do not seem capable at' quick
mid powerful eNyresioo. On the whole, Air. Ya'es
is 'et better lagu thou many who have lately piers sof
feted to fill the character, but he is very far from a
true conception of the /ago of Shakespecre. He was.
receive: with much favour by the audience. Miss
O'Neill's Devdemuna is a charm pertimuunee, but
is perhaps (11.-tivient, in some scenes, in the requisite
degree of softness and submission. Young's 011iella just.
ly ranks us a line manly piece of acting. The Caxsiu
of C. hemble is, we think, ,his master-piece : the
gmlual approaches of inehrity were so inimitably ex-
pressed, that the scene becatue one of the tine 4 igen:lnca t
in the tragedy, and was very loudly applauded Mrs.
ates who, we ;nay here mention, is not the wife nor
any way related to Mr. Yates) played Entlia with
pi:oricty cud feeling. Thu theatre could boast a eruwded
auu:e4ce.

V .•se timid
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