The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Tuesday last an inquisition wss held at the Queen's Arms
Tavern, Upper Keenington-lane, upon the body of Hersey
reilip Savage, Ecq. before Charles Jeinmet, Leg. Coroner for
Surrey.
Abraham Coward, Esq. brother.in-law to the deceased, sworn.
resided in the same house house with
pest. He has been indisposed about four months, but has been
only one month coulined to his bed. About II o'clock on lest
Sunday atoruing I heard the nurse who attended bins screaming
violently in his chamber. I went to her assistance, and when
entered his apartment, I saw him in bed, his head reclining a
little to the left, the sheets and blankets were Woody, and •
bloody razor was lying outside the bed-clothes. I was very
much agitated, but collected suyeelf, and perceived a wound in
his throat. I believed WWI dead, but thought proper to send
for Mr. Drysdsle, his surgeon : thsit gentleman war nut then
at borne, but be arrived sootily afterwards wee.' he pronounced
tee deceased•deari. The deceased had bean eery tow spirited
' biome his indisposition, supposed to have been occasioned by a
negeciation going un between Wm and his father, with weeds
lie had been at variance : lie was evidently sheeted by it. I
sernversed with hit* on Friday night upon the subject, and in-
quired if there were any means of accelerating a reconciliation,
but lie seemed rather to decline it. I saw Win again on Satur-
day night, but was rather delicate in touching upon the subject.
Mr. George Drysdale, surgeon, deposed, —I have attended
the deceased for some soothe peal, be laboured under a con-
sumptive disease ; I saw bite on Saturday, he was thee evi-
dently deranged in his intellect, and I thought he could not sur-
vive 21 hours. lie had been very much depressed in spirits
since his alums, in consequence of some disappoiutnient in ad-
justing a difference between him and his father, who ranks high
in the naval service. On Sunday morning I called at his house,
Mrs. Stone opened the gate, and showed me into his apartment.
I found hen with a deep incision in his throat, and much blood
about hint lying is bed. A ream, with which lie committed
the act lay by his side. The jugular vein was divided, and he
was quite dead, The wound and less of blood, no doubt were
the sauce of his death. The unfortunate catastrophe way he
attributed to the neglect of his father : he wished to nee him
before bin death, but be declined an interview with any of those
friends who wished to bring about a reconciliation. I inter-
elided myself, but to 110 purpose.
Mr. Coward then pulled out a letter, which he said was an
answer to a letter written to the deceased's father reepectiog
the funeral espences of the deceased, and lie proposed read*
it to the jury , when the Coroner observed, that family •Wairs
bad not Mg to do with the investigation ; the chief object was
to ascertain the state of mind of the deceased when he com-
mitted the deed. Mr. Coward, however, read the letter it
was to the following effect :
••Sia,---1 beg leave to inform you, that I made your commu-
nication known to Miss Crump in the evening 1 received your
better; and in my hearing she informed the Admiral of the same,
and also Joked him leave to send for his upholsterer concerning
lehe funeral; when the Admiral flew into a most violent peasion,
and protested that nothing of the kind should be done. I then
inteufervel, with a hope 01 prevailing upon him, but lie would not
hear what I had to say, but immediate 4 • wens up stairs to hie
bed-room, and there the matter rested.
"I am, Sir' your obedient servant,
r`ll I LIJAM I'OllC tf I L 1,."
The Coroner, on hearing this letter read, observed, that the
Admiral would be an unhappy man Miring the rest able dip.
Mr. Coward observed, that the Adie rap is now between 70
and Stu years old; the deceased was bib only child, and never had
given him any just cause to be offended; but that being reduced
in circumstances, it butt the Admiral's pride to .see any of his
family so impoverished. He could have helped tile deceased if
lie chose; lie is now the thud Admiral on the list.
&Malted' Mansfield, an old nurse, and Dr. Latham, deposed,
the filet to the infirm state of the deer-abed for some time past.
the latter so the probability of a person se reduced in health and
spirits being seized with a temporary insanity.
This was all the evidence produced, and the Coroner, having
summed up to the Jury, ordered the room to be cleared. They
delibt.trae d about 10 minutes, and then announced their verdict.
•—•• That the deceased inflicted a wound in his own Olivet in a lit
of insanity' which caused hat death."

Mal LANCHOLYUCCUKRENCE.—Tite brig fridiao anal
Mary, of Sunderland, armed at Harwich till Saturday
11101.11111 S!, with a cargo of C 0313; the same Mitt I ))))) 11, be-
tween one and two o'clock, It. Carr, the master, iteel/111.
pained by William Clarke, a seaman, and a boy of tile
name of libel, set sail 11l tile ship's ieiai lire the port of
Ipswich, with 2 view to dispose of his coals at that place.
The tam proceeded about two miles and a hall up the
Orwell with a I Avowable breeze, but at Collimer Point
a sudden and most violent squall Came un from the
S.S.W. by which the boat was upset, and the oakum-
'late crew were all drowned. The master was a married
wait, without a family; Clarke, au Ipswich man, has
kit a wile and two children, living 31 Sunderland; toe
boy, Bud, was the soli of a lig,liternian beloilAine to
Ipswich, and his lather was on I•oard the brig. Tue
WA was found, bottom upwards, upon the O.ize. Tile
bodies of the soil...lets were discoveled (111 Sunday morn-
ing by the male of the brig, lying nearly al•ugeilier.
llie JeCillelll happening wnbim the jurisdiction of Ips-
wich, tile holies were relliOVed thilher, 310 till the 113111. e
alieriloon a coroner's bullies( was held upon diem, and
a scribe: «I Accidental Death returned.

'lice Stockport Theatre ouetierl las-. week. On the
rising 01 tite curtain, Mr. Smithson callie lot ward to
announce a calamitous event which hail Isappelied to tile
inJIIJAt.T and like whole of lice perlormeis, tit tile gencial
wreck of their property, whilst crossing the sands limn
Ulteistou to Laiiiercer, titiritiA a gale of wind, in which
%lir), were suddenly tn. riaketi by the tide. All their
clivsis, comaining their %% anirobe, with a portion of the
scenety, were set mink, a 14144(11de hntse drow nen, and
(her it:nes and children ilarinwl4 escaped with their
The appeal made 10 the audience Mr any defi•
cleticy which must naturally hate tile messes.
Six. was %cry favourably received, anti under et ely vim•
CUIIIIIIIIIICe hie piece Weill Off much better
1131 e Well etilhetell. We are happy to near that the
greaser pan it the 1 ks, fee. hate txtu recut erect, al-
thotogir moth injureu --11 or iy
11411 tic w et n Umerates) and Lancaskr their Is ills eXtellt
of nearly to titles at low wales, which lib: ds wills
eh iuucla and nviving.sainls, oil which guides air redo•
I. fly p,itl Cimer iiiii eat, and ina.nnied at the time or
lor the pru.eClll,ll of the liASSellp,l7l. TIIS VlO-
- hie it ,le had inneit the iconic hum hispostosiel
the party ha% ing µnee too far 10 tteelle, were Obilgell, at
use peril of their live., tU efUsS the last CII.IIIIICI Wltilolll
any proper di/cotton.