The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-30 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

On Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. TtioNt PAT..
TEN, coroner for Rochester, at the Guildhall of that city, on
the body of the Francis de Grey, who came by his
death on the preceding day.
Al!erne Higgs Barker, of the parish of WOOldham, raid
lam Rector of the parish of Wouldham. Oa Monday
morning last, about a quarter past nine, I was in my garden
fronting the river, the deceased was standing down on the
hard leading to my boat. We had just before pushed the
boat off which had been aground, and I had returned into
the garden. I was preparing to come in to breakfast. We
were about to use the boat in the ;thermion, and as the tide
was going down, we pushed her off to keep-her afloat. I
saw the deceased in the act of pushing the boat off agai❑
with considerable violence, which drove the haat in a
straight direction into the river sonic, yards. I then ob-
served that the anchor did not hold the boat, the force of
the tide being too great. I then said to the decearwl,
she is adrift now, but never mind." He said " I must
swim after her." I Legged him not, and said, " Pray
don't go ; besides yeu have your watch in your pocket."
He said, " No,:I have not ;" and immediately jur.wel into
the river, and stn uc•k o I observed the deer:ascd to la-
bour very much, and al ear frightened. He ...hot astern of
the boat, and the tide carried him faster than the boat.
. lie struck out about five or six strokes rapidly, evidently
like a person much alarmed. He tried to stem the tide,
and reach the boat ; he then turned round and said (but I
will not be positive as to toe exact words), I think they
were, " I'm drowning," or, " I shall be drowned." I en-
deavoured to encourage toe deceased to keep up. I imme-
diately ran round from the front of the river to the back
of the house, where I lines there were some kegs. I
took one of them in tny hand, and ran to a part of the
river to which I supposed the deceased would have drifted,
On arriving there I saw him struggling. I called out to
him to come on shore, fearing he might be attempting to
get into the boat ; he then in struggling turned upon his
bad:, and his cap catne. off ; he was then about fifteen.
yards from the shore. 1 took off my coat and waist-
coat, and with the keg, to which a sling was attached,
in my bani, plunged into the river, baying one band
through the sling ; in the exertion of swimming-, the sling
broke, I turned to recover the keg, on reaching it I found
in consequence of the sling having broken, it was of no ser-
vice, there being nothing to hold it by. I then jut gu the
keg, ani savant out without it to within a yard or• two where
I saw the deceased. l was then exhausted and found my-
self sinkine-, I turned round, and with diffiedlty reached the
shore. During the tune I was in the water the deceased
disappeared from the surface.
By the Conox.La—The deceased was my pupil, about.
'2l years of age. I had never seen the deceased in toe
river before ; but he had told me more than once that be.
could swim across it at any place.
By.a Juror—lie was completely dressed when ire went
into the water.

Richard Bannar, of Rochester, bargeman, said, yester-
day, between ten and eleven o'clock. in the morning, I was
aboard my barge iu the river Medway, near Bewley's Clifl;
when an application was made to my master for creepers,
and at his request I went in my boat down the river to near
Wouldliam. I put my boat hook over, and after proceed-
ing about twenty yards, I felt the body. I hauled up my
boat hook, and found it had caught the deceased by the
collar of the coat ; lie appeared quite dead.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned."

The deceased, who was the son of Lord Walsiitgbarn, was
a tall handsome young man, and had only taken up his
abode at Wouhlintat a fortnight or three weeks previous to
the above ►ne'.aneho:y occurrence.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A RESPECTABLE 1%1 ARMED
W AN.—Last night an inquest was held in tlie Vestry-
hall of St. Magnus's Church, London Bridge, before Mr.
PAY and a most respectable Jury, on view of the body
of Mrs. Mary Esther Kinderinore, aged 4i, who committed
suicide by throwing herself into the Thames.
Mr. John Hindermore, tailor and draper, of O. G,
Church-street,- Blackfriars-road, the husband of the de-
ceased, deposed that his wife had been the mother of a very
large family, and had ever pLrforined her relative duties in
the most exemplary mann.:r. For some months before her
death she had been in a low desponding state of mind owing
to domestic afflictions, wliich gained ground upon her, not-
withstanding witness endeavoured to soothe her by evary
possible means. She retired to rest with witne3s on Tues-
day night- about eleven o'clock, and on his waking in the
morning he found her absent.
, By the Jury—The domestic afflictions 1E allude to was
the loss of an elder son by death, and one of, our daughters
absconded from her home,
The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased
drowned herself in state of temporary derangement."

Mr• Kean has just terminated an engagement for
sir
~'.ghts at the Aberdeen Theatre ; he opens at Liverpool on
Monday evening, being engaged by the manager for twelve
nights.

-RETORT COURTEORS.—The Springfield Repub-
L'ean gives sketches of some of the Members of the Massa.
chusetts' House of Representatives—among them Messrs.
Andrew, of Salem, and Williams, Gr Boston. The charac-
teristic of the former is said to be inflation of style—of the
latter, great ardour in debate. The following " passage "is
uiven as an actual occurrence between the gentlemen :—"Mr-
'Andrew thought that with the heat of Mr. W. he could
clear the ice front the harbour." " Mr. Williams retorted
that he had little doubt of the fact, provided the gentleman
from Salem would assist in the undertaking with his own wind.
—New York Paper.
NOVEL IMPORTATION.—On opening a cask of
hardware a day or two since, a firm in Market-street, Phila-
delphia, discovered a bevy of rats to the number of twenty or
twenty-live. One of the firm, being a conscientious man,
went at once to the Custom House, and informed the officer
in attendance that .an article had been shipped to them not
arid upon whieh they were igno-
rant of the exact rates of duty. The officer thought the law
mentioned in their invoice,
would be explicit on the point, and, still unadvised as to the
nature of the case, proceeded forthwith to consult authorities.
Directly, however, the rats leaked out, and no small enjoy-
ni,„t was had by reason thereof. It was fully ascertaiacd.,
that by some strange oversight on the part of our legislators,.
the sohj,•ct of accidental rut importation has never been ap-
proached. Congress would show its wisdom, we think, in dis-
cussing even such a contingency, rather than by taking part in
such disgracefal and impious proceedings as are described in
our columns to-day.—. Philadelphia Gazette.

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