The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

THE NATIO]

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

On Tuesday last a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body of
Joseph Manning, supposed to have been murdered in the
Croydon Hoed. A respectable J itry suocmhied at the W hausheaf
Inn, and the following evider.ce was adduced before Charles
Janmett, Itsq. Coroner for Surrey I.—.
William Hanwards, of Croydon, stated, that on Sunday last,
about seven o'clock in the morning, as he was going to Streatham.
and within a short distance of Mr. Sanderson 's Lodge. he saw
die deceased lying in the ditch by the road side. Ile went up to
him and found he was dead; he was lying with his face down—
wards. He then went and asked Mr. Santlerson's gardener to
assist him in removing the body, but he declined, and advised
him to go to Streatham for asastanee. He did so, taking with
him the deceased's hat, and a basket which was in the ditch, in
which was about four inches depth of water; the deceased's head
was under the water; be was on his knees, and leaning on his
elbows. There was much appearance of struggling on the sine
of the ditch. The body was carried to the Whearsheaf.
William Irons stated, he lift Mr. Colic's about Kee minutes to
la o'clock on Saturday evening. and as he was going towards
Streatham, shoat twenty minim s after twelve o'clock, he saw the
deceased going toward., Ctoydon : he appeared intoxicated. and
shouted out. The night was moonlight, and rituals perceived
him Lir some time going along irregularly.
Mr. George Bottomley. of Croydon. surgeon, stated, he had
examined the body of the deceased, and could not find any
material external marks of violence; there was some extrara.
sated blood in the head, and the vessels of the brain were very
much distended. The okinien of die win-mu was, that de.ca.,ed
died firm suffocation. -""•
The Coroner here summed up the evidence to the Jury. He •
! stated. that they heard the evidence, and they had no pruof of the
man's being murdered. They could consider of the verdict
under such circumstances they ought to give.
The Jury then retired, and in a quarter of an hour returned
with this verdict--•• The deceased fat into a ditch in a stare of
intoxication, and was svflocated."
Another inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon, at Rethlam
Hospital, by Mr. Shelton, Cosner, on the body of Jas. Pawns,
one of the lunatic patients.
James Smith, one of the keeper,' of the Hospital, sworn :
The deceased was taken into the Hospital on the illkh of Ju!),
last, tr. consequence of labouring under extreme melancholy;
but he was perfectly harmless. Last Sunday the deceased took
tea with witness, and then several ether patients were in the
room witness did not notice hint afterwards. About eight
o'clock. the custommy hour for the patients to go to bed, witness,
missed deceased, and went to search after him; tie found him in
the dining ran, lying under the middle window, with a rope
round his neck, one end of it being fastened to die window bars.
Witness cut the rope. which was very tight, and went for Mr.
Wright, the physician.
Mr. Edward Wright, physician to the Hospital. stated, that
he was sent for to attend the deceased; found him quite cold.
eseept his belly. which retains the warmth longest. Witness
butted. that the deceased laboured under great depression of
spirits and a bad state of health ; latterly he had been improving
I both in mind and body. He was perfectly harmless. and used to
assist the keepers in making the beds. The deceased attempted
to make away with Maisel: three times before be went to the
Hospital.
A long discussion took place as to the manner in which the
deceased became possessed of the rope. Knives hese been
sometimes imprudently given to the patients by their friend-.
but have been taken from them again as soon as they were seen
by the keepers. Mr. Nathaniel Nicholson, the steward, said.
that if he had kept all the knives that have been taken front
patients, he would have above a peek ai them.
The rope with which the deceased committed the act coms—
ponded with that in the sacking of the witness t,nyth's bed.
itch the deceased sometimes helped to make; hut the wins."
never missed it, although he lashed his bed tighter on Surglay
last. It appeared dial no blame was attached to any person
connected with the Hospital.
Verdict—" That the deceased committed the act while in a
state of insanity."

Oit Wednesday, the Sr7th tilt., the 5111 p Lord 111.51 w.
lon, Bell, muster, front Quebec for 1,4111:1011, wit an
Falmomh an great distres-. having had her bulwat,,,
stamichions, and all her Dfialli washed away, and tier
sails tithe' blown away or split iii.o Laura. The vessel
aka sprang a leak, and they were compelled to throw a
considerable part of the cargo overboard. S ill the leak
gained of them, and it was only by the utmost exertions
at the pumps that the crew were able to keep her above
watt r. For four weeks they continued in tins distressed
state, having no other provisions than bread and raw
pork. They would have been wholly unable to support
the latigue of cm ll i ttt ial pumping, had it not la,en for a
gentleman and lady who were passengers, and who blip-
piled them at intervals with porter and sugar, :re 111 the/
private sea stock, and which the lady regularly distil-
tinted to the crew, stayina on di.ck nearly thew title of
the tame, so cheer and stimily thew regtd,rly wi:11 alas
most valuable beverage. Out Tuesday lin y made
the Scilly lylits; and feat:ma:hat they would be ultivt it
on shore, the buy disisatimed among she er,.av a go-until
of &mildews. siylly, that some might esczre, and that
the mosey would be mend to the stint mots. Happily
thetr appieltensions were net real see; they made Fal-
mouth our Weilitesul.,y mariting, and this heroic woman,
tv nil her husband, have, contrary to their expectations,
once more set Mot on English ground, though in a most
exhausted and deplorable condition. Witco the scowl
came into port, alto haul Mire feet of water in the bold.
During the voy,h;,e one of the crew war ktllcd by falling
110111 the yard-arni, and another was severely
Is 4bUt..s.r.-01) N1,11.!?y last an ingoisnion was lipid
at the twutse of Nlr. Leam:it, Tavern, ota
the St. Pativras road, between the church and the
Small-pox llotpital, luenure Thomas Stirliue, Esti. one
of the CuriillerS tur the comity of Middles( x, awl a most
reSpectable jury, on stew of the body of a male isitairt„
reported to he lialfdrinl and pr,Vatel) Fiat, d by the pa-
tents, the bur:ll beinet tamer... Ad. Atter theft. anon
of several watiess.-s, Cite pity brought in a verdict of—
Stilhaarirn.

A't'Bh.MPl To al: t.vr. Pai3ost.—Alsmit eiebt o'clock
Oil Wednesday mottling, itie 17:11 Wtiuut, a desperate
AtICIIIpt to tirc,ik out nt urr cry tail, al uas nia,ig
by several men in ensili), at :Ile criminal side 01 that
inison. A. guard, cuossiiiii4 id a corporil and time
pri‘alc,, is alwa)a pos..y.: t mght in an apartment inside
:ac and had imi yyt :vest relicved, %%hen a iitvit.
Ltr of :he prisoners, tikina a•,.iiiitage of the opening of
a dour, for the purpose sit feeklolllll4 the prisourls' WA.
•111:g, rushed nut and ilioariiitil the 11,1,1•111 iit their file.
and utatn ali.e I ii:vu s,-IS es int the defensive tor a
t.titabilieT.lllle. tulle, Milli NI r. g the aoler, obtain. d
reinfmceinent of sold.eis, ul. my appearance of whom
the desp.radue• sulJutitted.

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P.II

The fo',iowit•.g is an extract of a letter dated Ma-
drid, Nor. 20, recea•ed by way of Ba• onne:--
" Never hei the feria:min:thin in the people's
minds been so extraordinary us for these few days
past, aneespeciully on the night of the 19th. in
tamscquenee of the uccouut ut the fulling of the
toads at Paris and the reports of war that were cir-
culated. The agitation was so great, that several
patriots went in a body to the office of the Minister.
t.• know whether the Government bed received any
despatches from abroad concerning the probability of
trat• ; but it was soon learned that only a commer-
eiJ house iu this city had received an expresa,
sapling the egitation on the Exchange at Paris on
the 1::th. However, the enemies of the system
, stain spread a report that the Holy Alliance had tie-
eided the armed interference in the afiltirs of Spain;
and this news-assumed such a degree of credit, that
it was the general subject of conversation in all pub-
lic places and private circles; and if the leaders of
the Landaburian Club had been allowed to take
their own way, the capital would have been filled
with coesternation. In f.ct, on thc same evening
several ecclesiastics anti others, whom opinion points
not as adversaries to the tonstitution, were publicly
insulted in the streets. The alarm continued the
whole of the I tl.h, and in the ni,;itt the same house
received au express, with the news Catt the funds at
Paris had risen on the lath, and that the reports
which had caused the fall were beginning to he dis-
pelled. Oa the other hand, Government received
en the 19th, at 2 a.m., an express fium its Minister
et Paris, with despatches very satisfactory in respect
to the reports of war. On the 19th, in the morn-
ing, groups of people assembled in the l'uerta del Sol,
anxious to know the contents of the despatches of the
Duke de San Lorenzo, and they soon learned that
be had written that Congress had decided nothing
with regard to Spain : it is even alarmed that the
Minister has said to his friends, that it' he had re-
ceived any unileasatit news, lie should have imme-
diately Fublislad it in the journals. Neveitheleas,
people's fears are not wholly dispelled, and they
stvait with impatience the result of the Congress.—
The merchant's expresses which arrive are sur-
rounded by numbers of persons. It ma:. be said, that
at the first news of a declaration of war, we should
see the revolution make ravages at Madrid, and all
the provincial' capitals.
•' All the Journals make reflections on the incon-
veniences tend obstacles which stand in the way of a
resolution of the Holy Alliance, to declare war
aanuita Spain.
" There is nothing interesting from Andalusia,
except the dissolution of-the Municipality of Lucena,
the arrest of its members, and of several other per-
sans, in cunst•tltence of the discovely of a plot
formed by the Lomriittee of Gibraltar, tending to
renew thu insurrection in honk;.:, Lucena, urd even
Ceuta.

" In the sittings of the Patriotic Society of Sc.-
vile, on the I I th, tha arrest of forty servile; was
dentatultd, so th.tt Gibraltar is filled with emigrants,
who however ciubark successively fir other parts of
the Continent." -