The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-21 00:00:00

CORONER'S /N Q UZSZ

An inquisition was taken yestertiay at th,3 Caneen'e
Head, Lower.street, Islington, before G. Hongpx,
Zfaq. Coroner for Middlesex, on tl'e body of Frederic
Mounicke, who was found with ''&l throat cut, and
supposed to have been murdered, in isfinftion Fields,
on Sunday morning.
After the Jury had been iniparinellad, they pro-
ceeded to the church to view the body, which was
in a very mangled state. The deceased, who, it
has been stated, was a furrier? in Do&ors' Commons,
had wounds (although, ,as it was supposed, not suf-
ficient to divide the main arteries) no each side of
the neck, which sweated to have hewn indicted With
rather a blunt itaitratztont, besides others on the
wrists, &c.

The first witness called to prove where, and in
what position the body was found, was John Astin,
a potter, who staved, that, about half past seen
o'clock on Sunday morning he was walking in Isling•
to Yields with his dog, and, op the brink of a ditch
the animal set up a bowling, and on the wanes% ap.
proaebing the spot, he discovered the deceased lying
on his left Aide, quits dead, with his hands
end held up. to his throat. On examining the body.,
be discovered that a pocket handkerchief was in the
linots4h of the deceased. There were only two per-
Ennio tight. a Gentleman and a Boy, the latter of
whom ran sway on being called. The body was
found in the centre field,etwetin Maiden-lane and
White Conduit House; and a bloody knife was
found in the next field, about Do yards distance from
the body, where the ground was stained with

Christian Schindler, a merchant, residing in Bart.
fetes-buildings, Holborn,- had known the deceased
fourteen years. Witness,' after describing the resi.
deuce of the deceased. &c. stated that he called at
bis house at seven o'clock on Friday evening, and
he appeared very much dejected. He had been for
some time very much embarrassed in circumstances,
and, on the preceding day, his Creditors had called
A Meeting, at which he was present, but was not
seen. The deceased informed witness, that his
creditors had had a meeting, but that they had come
to no resolution. He went away after stopping
about halt an hour, and witness informed him, that
his Creditors would not hurt him, and that he would,
,call on him the following day, which, however, he
did not do, as the principal -creditor had called to
aistire him of what witness only could have done.
He never Min afterwards, and he had left a
wife and six children.

On the knife being produced which was found,
Mr. Schindler described it as one used by furriers.
A young woman who had been fivc years in the
employ 01 the deceased, corroborated that part of
.the statement of the preceding witness, relative to
wt:le dejeoted state of mind of the deceased, the knife,
ke. She saw the decealed at about eight o'clock
GU Saturday night at his own door, and he then ap-
peared in a perfeet state of melancholy. This wit-
ness also proved that the handkerchief predliced,
which was in the mouth of the deceased, belonged
'to inn.
A Surgeon at Islington gave it as hl* opinion, that
from the appearances of the wounds on his neck',
•the deceased had infliaecl them with his own band :
'he had not minutely examined thenss so as to state
their real effeas.

The-coronerinformed the Jury, that if any doubts
were.among them, whether or not the deceased hall
'Tat his death by an aQ of his own, he would take
the ,Surgeon's statement minutely, as there was no
other, evidence to throw additional light on the sub-
j . The „Jury do doubts, and they delivered
a Verdia—m Lunacy."

. .
I..mutwea's admirable Portrait of Mr. PITT is
' deetlieti ,o great a liitmess, that moat of the private
friends of that great man are to have Copies of it.
But the Public also will have an opportunity of being
gratified by this animated Portrait of the best and
i wisest Statesman that the world over saw, as the
uiiginal liaure has already been in the hands of
i ,the Engraver.

Sir Gsoace BEAUMONT 1183 not Rent any thing' to
ate .ensuing Exhibition, which the lovers of the
arts squat regret, as the-. produetions of that Gentle-
Were always cliarateri:ied by taste, truth, and
h,ianty.