The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-23 00:00:00

CORONER's INQUEST.

Atc Inquisition lafas held on Thursday night at
the house of Mr. Seeker, the Alfred's Head, •New.- •
iegton, on the body of a child, aged rather more -
than eight years. -
.• Mr. S'aELTON, the Coroner, opened the case to
the Jury, and called the Witnesses. The first Wit-
ness called, was,
Mr.'Skinner, who said he lived at No. 3, in Al-
fred-place, London-road, and is a silk-dyer.—On
the teth of Angust,:at about, half past five, be was
sitting at his door, when he saw a coach coming up
the read very fist he cast his eye on the side, and
there: saw a dbild thrown under • the off wheels of
the coach, which ran Over him, nearly severed the
head from the body, and broke in a part of the head
upon the brain.
Mr. Pratt, the neighbour Of the last Witness,
spoke in. nearly siMilar teams.
Mr. Isaac Leach said, he lived-in the City of Lon-
don, and was on the evening in--question' returning
from 'Camberwell Fair, when passing by the Black
Prince, at Walworth, he saw a man who he now
knows to be Nathaniel Scott, the driver of the,
coach No, 577, driving most
.furiously ; he called
out to him to forbear such condu&, and the coach-
• Man pulled up and dismounted, offering to fight.
The Witness decYined that point; having a Lady un- ;
der his proteCtion, and' said he was satisfied with
haring taken the, nutuber of his coach ; words arose,
but the Witness pursued- the same line of conduced.
The coachman 'then remounted, and 'drove on at a
soli more furious rate,, and-he soon learned the fatal
accident that caused this enquiry.;
Mr. Clarke; a straw-hat:manufaaurer, was pre-
sent at the time,, saw the transaaion as. related by
the last Witness, bit went further—when i .the
was driven Off at so_inereased a pace, he, with two
-otheri, a ppeehended , mischief, followed ; the .coach,
and.finding the child ~i.aS-ran °vet; balloed and had
the coach stoked. Mr. Clare 'on, the eoachman
disinounting, -said-, to him—" l'ou see. What your
"misconduct has dOne7—you have killed a child."—
' He answered; •'‘‘.. .&11. )61.i can do will he tohang Inc
- for it." The Wittiess. then said—" 'What repara-
' •tiOn can you•make to_a man for killing his child?"—
, Ansixer, f",lhal.e nothing more to say ;
,put me in
prison; T will • go, with you, and -not. attempt to
escve.". He kept word,' went with the Wit-
ness and two others to 0-Ilion Hall, from whence
Sir JOHN PINliblIN, committed him on a charge of
suspicion- of being guilty of wilful murder. • •
Mr. SHELrom, the Coroner, the evidence being
closed, summed up the evidence, and then,
,with his
usual perspicuity, pointed out to •the Jury how far
the law had invested them with the power of deter-
mination on this-case. The King.had lost a subje&,
and a father and mother a child. It was also to be
observed,. that with respeel to the man Nathaniel
Scott, the driver, their verdia might operate on his
life, or atleast his liberty; feeling that to be the case,
he. would leave it to them, if they conceived that he
'was only pursuing his common avocation in a corn,
mon.and regular way, and the child had then lost its
life, they would find a'vgrdia off
the contrary, they, should consider that by wantonly
and furiously driving,- after various cautions,, he had
driven'oer this child, so as to cause-the death, they
would find a'. verdiEt of another description ; and
it was necessary to_ add, even upon this point, that
- they should consider whether malice prepense orde-
sign operate •if they thought it did; they would
end a verditkof,WWal Murder ; if op the contrary,
Nanslaughtere
The Jury
.fopild verdit of Manslaughter, .arid a
deotiand tb tbe Crown of ?pa-, ,
-The Parish Officers of St. George, the parents-be-
ing very poor, were bound ever to -prosecute, and all
the Witnesses to give evidence at the next Surrey
Assizes.

It appears from a-correel statement of t. 9. pro-
gress •of the woollen manufacture, in the West-
Riding of -Yorkshire, from the year 17,c9 • to .tho.
year 1865, that in the former year there were
e 6,671 pieces -of broad Cloth manufaaured,; and
in the latter .300,237 pieces,' making t 0,1379,256
yards—Of narrow. cloths; in, the year 173% there
were 14,496 pieces manufaclured ; in the year
1805, 165,847; making 6,19.3,317 yards. Such
is the flourishing state
.of. this important trianu-
Abont half pastnine oriWednesday morning, the
George Inn, Hurst Green, Sussex, and an adjoin-
oec.;upled .by Mr. F„smszcn, were struck
with In the latter, whicii, it 4rst struck,' ,
it took .off the. corner •of a chimney in an upper
sitting-room, passed into a bed-room; where it
'shivered to pieces an alarum clock,. ,and thence
took as -direction downwards into the • kitchen.
Here it struck a lanthorn-, completely consuming,
the horn, and-heating the tin-work so that it could
not be touched for some minutes after. . The light-
, ping then taking 'an angular direetion into the back
yard of the Inn, shivered the, posts on each side
the kitchen door,' and killed a full grown fowl,
which was stripped of its feathers on one side as
completely as if it had been picked for roasting.
Upwards of two dozen plates, standing near the
door on a stool, were broken into a thousand pieces.
It then entered the brick-work at the bottom of the
house, ;leaving' a hole of about 16 inches in cir-
cumference, and buried itself in the cellar. Miss
..A.NSON, the daughter of thelandlord of the George
Inn, stood; within two feet of the place where it
entered, and her 'mother and the maid-servant were
close by her; all of them felt the shock; and fell at
the same instants' Fortunately, Aire only injury stif.
fered was a slight contusion on Miss ANsoN's right
'foot, occasioned by a splinter from the door post.
The house Was for severallninutes filled with a sul-
phureoils sun
tiszioN-HW..---' Yesterday ..lizatqtll pit. and
Hannah Hai Were met by Lloyd, an Officer of
Union-Hal),. tiy,atTi a large bundle,; knowingshe
dies to hr Piggeries of .the first order,- he stopt
them, and on. searching the bundle found a shop-
bill and memorandum, whichled to a proof of their
having changed a Bank-note of 2-0/. at a linen-dra-
per's in Blackfriarseioad ;' that note being traced, ap-
peared to be one' that had been not only' improperly
obtained, but as improperly uttered: The two ladies
were committed for a further examination.