The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-19 00:00:00

_COI7,ONETS INQUEST.

Yesttrday` exerting, an [wrest •eas held-before
G.:l-lonGsoN esq. at tilt:Spotted Dog, in Strand-
rme, on :the, beviy of Joan Crawley, who was found
dead, under suspicions circuritances, the -pre-
ceding evening, in 'one Of the dark solitary vaults.
'leder Sowerset-honse.

Elizabeth Ator.ek stated herself to bc,a pauper
in Chrii.t'Church Wor',c-house, Bear-lane, Ba
fri,w's-road ; she knew the deceased ;
.they were
formerly in the same workhouse;, they were in
habits of great intinmey'; the deceased was near
70 years of agp,‘a:i'd subject to fita ; shemet Elul
last Sunday, about two o'..lock in the afternoon.,
on Blackfriar's-hridgc; they took a walk toge-
ther, and they went don n under ,tnierset-house
to The waterside, to view tit,: New Bridge, anal
'on their return, they went into one of.thc vaults
to rest themselves ; they might have been there,
about three limns 'she often went into the vaults
to pick tip sticks and cinders, not being allowed
much tire. The deceased was taken in a lit, and:
foamed at the month and kicked ; site grew afraA •
of being with a man in that situation, and in so
lonely a place; she 'Went out to v_et mmie water
to give hint 'to drink, and likewise to wash his
.face, and she brought the water in the bottom of
kbrol,ien bottle, which she ii.,lled for-that pur-
pose ; the man,that .'came to her assistance sent
for medical advice to Dr. Staunton; bat be was_
dead before any one came.
• Edward Burror•es, an assistant to 111 r. Staun-
ton, of the 'Strand, surgeon, stated that he was
sent for a few minutes before eight o'clock the
preceding ev-ening, to visit the deceased ; he ac--.
cOrdin,4lv went, a.nd found him in aglow-11y vatilt,
tinder Somerset lloose,.in a lifelc,ss state; lie was
of opinion that his ikatli ...vas not occasioned by
violence ; there NVel'C on the body ; hiis
de4-ith might
.procced from Some organic affection,
probably'a spasm of the heart.
The Coroner closely examined 'the Old woman
on many pOints,.a several of the Jury, on tie-
count - of the inystctious'inanner of his death; and
at length returw_.ci a v'ei diet., that the deceased
came,to his death by,the Visitotion• of God.

DESTRUCTION (II; G15TE....--We have freonently
heard of gre..- destruction Committed anunigsst
the game by I.V•easels and other' vermin of that
description,' but the following vtdl authenticated
hist:knee of their depredations tar surpasses any
Idea which we .could .have formed npod the sub-
ject. .About a fortnight ago, agentientan in the
neighbourhood of Felton shot a Stoat (generally
. Mistaken for a NVelisd , which is only-about -7
inches long, while the Stoat, accoAling to &wick,
measures J 0 inches in length),: out the animal
escaping into-a hole in an old stone wall, he was
induced to explore the place of •its retreat, when
the first victims he met with were it couple of well
grown leverets, unmutilated ; a little further on
were two young partridges also untouched, and
a pheasant's egg unbroken ; beyond these were
,',l-ound the heads of two other leverets, and at the
extremity of the hole lay thel'ittle marauder hint-
st.T., dead.' •
An unfortunate female orthis 'city, of the mane
of'llunter, put an end to her existence eatly on
'Thursday morning last, 'by throwing herself mit
of it two-pair of stairs ‘vindow at . the-house she
resided- in, Maudlin-lane. She hail first attempt-
'ed to cut • her throat with a scarving-knife,which
was wrested from her hand by a young woman in-
the same house,•who immediately ran down stairs
for assistance ; when her unhappy companion tak-
ing advantage of her absence, threw'opeh the
window and precipitated herself into the street.
She fell upon some bricks, and fractured htr
its a most shocking manner. A Coroner's inquet
sat (loon the body near l 0 hotirs, and returned a.
verdict of lunacy_—Mistol.
Last week, Thomas IPhite, anidshipman of the
Unicorn frigate, was tried at Edinhurdi for the
murder of Wm. Jones, a seaman or' that ship, by
stabbing hint with a dirk on the Pier of Leith.
llc‘l74i found guilty of culpable homicide, and
sentenced to 1-h years transportation.
On Sunday sc'nnight, the body of a dragoon
belonging to the 2d, or Scotch Greys, was found
drowned in the basin at-Dover. The unforttp4ote
man was' ettipled in the smuggling. duty the
preeeding evening, and the night being. very
dark, it-is (=lectured that he- missed the foot-
, path.