The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-26 00:00:00

CORON Lk' V INQUEST.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the view of
the Hope pohlic.house, in Blsekwwur•vttert, Clare-market,
before Esq on tle•body of Mr. Mauls Reeve,
who blew his brams out with a pistol, on Tuesday snug
hot, in Clare.cuart,
Mrs. Sarah Collillll4 ethic Reeve, being swore, as id, Mr.
Reese lied fur the last fifteen months Inhumed tinder ati
beery affliction of mind, having been attacked at that period
with a psialytic •fkciinn. About tau months since he
'sent fur a medical gentleman (Dr. al heti, II) to see if Ire could
render him any relief or rest. Dr. Milchell at first second
surprised, and then said, the reason ass, the flow of
blood which bad settled ow the brain was nut entnizh to cause
stupor, but irritation. He requested him to baths his
feet iu warn water, and occasionally have blond taken from
hisarms. Witness said he obtained uu relief from these re-
medies, bat always appeared ins • low and dejected *cite,
Fur the last six months he had always Isis on a sofa. Hr
had formerly been • guard to • twail•suscli, and alma eusCh-
man. The pistol had been in witness's possession between
three and four years. A boat six o'clock oat Tuesday morn-
ing witness heard a dreadful noise; she came frets her bed,
and thought deceased had fallen down, as bad been usual
with him au 'must of the loss of the sat of his side.

Mr. John Langley, sergeen, residing in Newcaatle street,
deposed, that between six and 'even o'clock list Tuesday
slimming he was called up by Mr. Stringer, of the Rod Lion
public-house in ilieStraud, and requested to go with him to
Clare-esiurt. He immediately accompanied him, and oil his
way there Mr. 8 informed him that a man had shot himself,
and be considered him dead, but for saiisfactiou wished to
have him examined. Wituess was then shewn into she back-
most., where the deceased lay on his back ; there appeared
a considerable quantity of blood issuing from the mouth,
which induced him to believe, baring been previously in-
formed that he bail abut himself, that be had discharged the
pistol in his mouth. Oa 0111/111111IliOU, be fonsid there was
nu injury in the mouth, hat that the blond had Swan from
the nose into it. A sort of cap covered the head of the
deceased, It appeared bloody; on removing it be found
a wound or fracture of the right temporal boors, into
which he put his finger, sad discorered a Roll bad pene-
trated the brain. Upon farther &nomination, be found the
ball had lodged iss the integument covering the parietal
bone, whirls had been fractured, and that this wound caned

instantaneous death. A considerable quantity of blood
VII, produced from the rupture of the temporal tarry.
Witness and Mr. S. then laukrd for the piatol, and blind it
a yard from the deceased; on rintruinailllN It primed to bare
bees previonsly discharged. Vredict—Lsitary.

.ROBBERIES.

On Wednesday night last, between ten and deem o'clock,
as Mr. C►rese, • pig-drake, of Welland, was returning
home along the Severn Ham, from Tewkesbury market, lie
was knocked down with • bludgeon, by • fellow who ap-
proached unperceived behind him, and su stunned thereby
as to be incapable of making the boat resistance, or of even
seeing the villain or villains who &milled him; mid alien be
afterwards somewhat recovered from the effects of the Wow,
he found his bead streaming wills blood from four or five
severe wounds, end that his pockets had been rifled of op.
wanton( 231. Wing unable to proceed, be would UlOl6l pro-
bably have perished, had not his erica reached the ears of
the boatman at the Upper Lucie NWT.., who fortunately
had nut gone to bed, knowing that blr. C. had to cross the
ferry. Through the active vigilance of the police of Nye
borough of Tewkesbury, several persona have been apple.
headed, some of wham have been committed fur flusher
examination; and it should lie remarked, as • cannon to
others, that the Tibor sufferer, who has a wife and ten chil-
dren, was mach intoxicated at the tieoe, and had been exhi-
biting his money in the kitchen of a public-house in the
coarse of the evesrug. This is the second robbery of a simi-
la► kind in the same neighbourhood within a fortnight, and
both doubtless by the same gang. As Mr. Joint Lane, a re-
spectable farmer, of Deerhund Walton, was relenting home
from Tewkesbury market, on the IVeduestily se`nnight
pre-
ceding, he war robbed, between the Charch and the House
of Industry, of all that his pockets contained, as well as
the coat oil his bait, and was afterwards thrown over the
palings into an adjuissing meadow, at the imminent litigant
of his life. It is certainly most probable that neither of
these robberies would hive been effected, had not intoxica-
tion rendered Ion• unfortunate' parties incapable •f avititliog
such miscreants as are always to be &sod gristly so make a
pity of the weak and delfrm•elca.

AMERICAN Itsoititys.—ll is a well-known Let,
that there are yacht's' persona in the chancier of
riders now going about England; heating up fur
volunteer. to people Americo, and who are trum-
peting forth the oche,, couveniencen. &e. of that
land of plenty. As uue of these men was holding.
forth the other day in the common room of an inn,
nn the advantages of emigration to this land of pro.
mine to a stranger. the hearer cut laM short by nay-
ing—" You need say no inure : I bare been there,
owl do not mean to go again."
A most curious Mid voidable Hebrew Medal is now in the
possession of Mr. Cortett, of the Panicle, is this city. An
inscription, in Syrite•Clialdiie characters, is very slistinetly
pereeiretl on the ohm se—w lan.h purports to tOsume tttttt .ate
the Rerwreeelieit the Redeem'? it'll:s; • head of alum
is oil the reverse. The materials of which it is composed
are bras., with a* alloy of silver. It ia apparently notch
worn, though quite legible, as the tettern look as if thiV had
been ionised iu a igery deep die. From all Memories shade,
this is, psokably, the only loran Hebrew medal known at pre-
gent. One of a similar kind, distinguishes] also by au iuscrip-
tion of the since import, was lllSCoVered in the island of
Angkwa, early ul the last century, but was lost by the person
who was intrnniebio eoutry it to (ANAL Two of the like
sort were acen at Rome, M the slays of Leo. X. 1519, and cre se
even then reckoned an invaluable vindication of the trot', and
history of Chi tannin'''. The !Alton, Itorn whom Mr. Cos lett
proctored Hits valliable and interesting historical (vol. nee of
religion, is nut at this moment a ithin raw range of that gen-
tlesnon's itaptirf, sio that' emir inability to learn wheie it was
discovered is thug* tw he regretted. If it teas fosool in Ire-
land, it will, no doubt, five rise to much speculation, and
prof, sbly rrvire ulon, that this kingiiiiiti %as, at :in
tallier period ditto is generally thought, blecsed with the
light of Christianity. A., we one likely It. pi", nor • file-
sinsiir a the luseription and head, we shall ve 0-1""
allot itithi in um culitrins.--iTc4 (Ars:Pride.)