The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.
An Inquisition was held yesterday morning of
the watch-house, in Queen's Head-alley, Newgate-street, on
the body of Joseph Masters, aged 49, a printer.
John Braithwaite, a watchman, was going his rounds at one
o'clock on Thursday morning, and saw deceased sitting on the
ground, resting his head upon the step of Mr. Bowles's shop-
door, in Newgate-street. The deceased's son stood by him ;
he was quite insensible and speechless ; witness, with another
watchman and the deceased's son, carried the deceased to the
watch-house ; on his arrival there,. he was laid upon his back
on the floor, and his neckkerchief was untied.; the deceased was
left in that situation ; his son said that liehe had work to d 0,%
and must go to it.
Thomas Masters, No. 3, Mullin's-rents; Shee-lane, son of
the deceased.—l am a printer ; my father was of the same
business, and worked at Mr. Phillips's,George-yard,bornbard-
street. On Wednesday, deceased was very cheerful all day
with his shopmates. At night the • deceased, witness, and 12'
other shopmates, bad asupper at the Cross Keys,: Gracechurelf-
street. The deceased drank freely ; the last liquor that he took"
was some brandy and water, and the last glass (a goblet) was
nearly neat brandy.
ConoNEn..—How much liquor did he drink altogether ?
Witness.-1 cannot say exactly. I saw him drink 5 glasses
of brandy and water very strong, besides which he dranl neat
brandy out of a goblet many times. 1 assisted my father to-
wards home, and got as far as • Newgate-street. He never
spoke after he reached the Mansion-house; I carried him the
remainder of the Way 'on my • back; he loosed his hold round
my neck, and slipped to the ground. The watchman camo
up, and assisted in carrying him to the watch-house.
.Juror.—You say your father and his companions drank neat
brandy ; was it placed on the table in decanters, and poured
into goblets ? Witness—Yes ; the neat brandy' was placed on
the table in bottles, and it was drank neat out of goblets. • I
cannot say how many goblets of neat brandy my father
drank that night. He sung sevoi.al songs during the night,
and when he left the Cross Keys appeared very well.—
He had been many times before apparently as much in liquor
as on Wednesday night; and when 1 left him I supposed he
would be well again after a little sleep. I was quite sober, and
drank very little at the public-house.
Mr. Shaw, keeper of the watchhouse, stated that the last wit-
ness, with several watchmen, brought the deceased into the
watchhouse on Thursday morning between one and two o'clock.
His son said—" My father has been to supper in Gracechurch-.
street; he is much intoxicated, Will yoityermit him to remain
here for a few hours, when he will be well again ?" Witness
said, " Certainly ;" and the deceased was placed in the lock-up
room on his back. When witness came out of the lock-up robin
he found the deceased's son and the Watchnien gone; and some
time-afterwards one of the watchmen informed the witness that
.the son would return at half-past four o'clock (as the watch-
house shut up at five) to fetch his father away. Witness after-
wards heard the deceased snoring very loud, and went to him,
and he appeared dying or dead. He sent for a surgeon imme-
diately; Mr. Hay came in a few minutes, and he pronounced
the man to be a corpse. The son did not return at all.
Mr.. Berridge, surgeon, Newgate-street, had examined the
body; no external marks of violence were perceptible. He
opened the body on Thursday morning; the liver was very
much enlarged and in a schirrns state, produced by hard drink-
ing. He believed the deceased died from drinking excessively
of ardent spirits. Verdict—Died from excessive drinking.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.
On Thursday evening an Inquest was held at the Devonshire
Arms, Devonshire-street, Marylebone, by THOMAS STIR:.
LING, Esq., on the body of Mary Hough, housekeeper to Vil-
liers Surtees, Esq., of No. 40,pevonshire-place.
Mr. David Jones, surgeon,. deposed, that on Wednesday
morning, about half-past 8 o'clock, lie was sent for to the house
of Mr. Surtees' and.found the deceased lying with her face on
the floor; herface was in a large quantity of blood, and her
arms were lying under her, with her right hand bent towards
her throat; upon turning her over, a white-handled common
dinner-knife was observed in. the blood, and it appeared to have
fallen from the hand. Witness then observed a considerable
wound in the, throat, and many blood-vessels had been wound-
ed, and the windpipe partially severed; the wound was very
ragged, as if it had been done with a blunt instrument. She,
was quite cold, and appeared to have been dead some hours.
William Villiers Surtees, Esq. of No. 40, Devonshire-place;
stated, that the deceased was his servant, and had been so for
8 years. Witness was in town on Monday last, and observed
deceased to look ill and much dejected. Previous to going out•
of town on Tuesday morning, he told deceased that Mrs. Sur-
tees and the governess would be in town next Monday, to which
she made no reply; but as she was a woman of few words, wit-
ness did not particularly notice it. Witness kept deceased
merely out of charity, as she was incapableof working ; he• be--
lieVed her to be strictly honest, and during the 8 years she had
been in his service he never had occasion to quarrel with
On his return to town on Wednesday, be found every thing
in the house as lie had left it, and no appearance of a robbery,
or attempt at one. When witness was at his country-house,,
deceased took care of the house in town ; and when lie was in
town, she had charge of the country-house.
Humphrey Roberts, and Thomas Pearson (watchmen), Wm.
Tombs (a constable), William Sellars (watch-house keeper of
Marylebone), were severally examined : their testimonies
merely related to the position in which they found the body of
the deceased. • •

Benjamin Scope, a beadle, searched the deceased, and found
on her 3/. 17s. Gd. in money.
James Leadbeter, an upholsterer, went to the house of Mr.
Surtees on business on Monday, and stated that she appeared
to labour under great depression of spirits, and when he ques-
tioned her about the return of the family, she appeared particu-
larly indifferent and careless.
The Jury then went to view the body, which presented a
horrid spectacle; the face and neck were covered with clotted
blood, and the wound was a very ragged one.
Verdict—" That the deceased committed the act while la-
bouring under mental derangement."

We are sorry to learn that two more persons
have died in consequence of the injury they received from the
explosion of the steam-boiler at Messrs. Yardley and Cleaver's
glue manufactory, at Camberwell.
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The following particulars of the melancholy
accident which occurred to Mrs. Wilbraham, of Chigwell-
row, on Monday, the 9th instant, may be relied upon
as correct :—As Mrs. Wilbraham and her daughter were
taking', the air in a low four-wheeled carriage, near to
Hog Hill-house, in Hainault forest, the box on which the
footman (who was driving) was seated, suddenly gave way, and,
the servant was precipitated to the ground; the horse taking
alarm at this circumstance, set off at full gallop on the Romford
road. The two ladies were thrown with considerable violcnre
from their seats ; Mrs. Wilbraham received several most
severe wounds at the back of her head, remained entirely sense-
less till the Wednesday evening, and then expired, at her house
in Chigwell-row. Miss IVilbraham was also very severely
hurt, but, it is to be hoped, she is in a fair way of recovery.
Mrs. Wilbraham was the second daughter of the late Wra.
Harvey, Esq. of Chigwell, M.P. for Essex, in the years 1747,
1754, and 1761, and sister of Sir Eliab Harvey, our present
worthy representative.—( Chelmsford Chronicle.)
A DR EAM.—A few nights ago, Illorpheus, in
his vagaries, conducted a person of this city to
the gates of heaven, which, to the great delight
of the nocturnal wanderer, stood most invitingly
open, and seemed to promise him a speedy reali-
zation of all the joys of paradise. But, unfor-
tunately, as he was just about to enter, his.
ingress was opposed by—a woman. Determined,
however, that the " weaker sex ". should not
prevent his regaining ,that happiness, which it
had been instrumental in causing him to lose, he
immediately commenced a furious attack upon
the feminine centinel. The violence of the con.
test, however, soon dissolved the spell in which
Somnus had bound him, and quickly convey-
ed, him from the scene of his conflict and his
hopes, " back to these mortal shores," where
he found his antagonist in the person of his wife,
who had sustained the substantial blows which
this celestial wrestler had dealt about her head,
with no sparing hand, during the continuance of
his visionary warfare.—(York Paper.)
A few days since a tradesman in Ipswich ap-
plied to the Parish Officers to have his arrears of
the pOor's rates'remitted, and to be excused fur-
ther payment, on the plea of his own poverty
but, it being known that about ten days before
the application he had been able to afford twelve
shillings and sixpence for a ticket to the Fox and ,
Reform dinner, although then indebted to the
rates, it was not deemed just to burden the
parish on his account, and his request was very
decidedly refused.

THE LONDON JOUIt,NAL‘J.

/mom' pAILY MORNING rAPERS,

S'eptember 21, /8'22.

[MORNING CRRONICLE.]
The Parliamentary influence of the House of
ileitford, which, in consequence of the long ill-
neas and political indifference of the late Mar-
quess, had fallen into decay, has been recently
revived, and, in fact, recovered by the present
Noble inheritor. The Marquess, it is said, di-
rectly and indirectly commands thirteen votes in
-the Lower House of Parliament. The Duke of
'York, Mr. Croker, of the Admiralty, and Mr.
401 mes, whose utility in the House of Commons
it pretty well known, are now on a visit to the
Noble Marquess, at Sudbourn. Couple this fact
:with the absence of the Marquess of Conyngham
In Ireland, and his son, Lord Francis's, permis-
sion to travel, and perhaps the veil of mystery
may be removed in a certain high quarter," given
to change."
, It is industriously rumoured, that the office of
Secretary at War will be abolished. Lord Pal-
liaerston is to resign upon a Pension and a Peer-
age. The Pension, however, is but to equal one
moiety of his present emoluments—the other
moiety to be made up to his Lordship from an-
other source. The friends of the Duke of Buck-
ingham have pushed hard for the appointment of
big Grace to the Head of the Admiralty, in the
event of Lord Melville going to India ; but the
claims of his Grace, although backed by the
pompous phraseology of a NOble Relative, dis-
tinguished for his proficiency in the art of ma-
neeuvring, have not yet been acceded to.—(lbid.)

[3IIITISII PRESS.]
While the Ministerial Papers have vauntingly
reftgred to the impulse given to our domestic
manufactures, as evidence of an improvement in
trade, we have repeatedly expressed our fears
that it was not a solid and healthful improve-
ment, but the result of an impatience for em-
ployment and excessive speculation. The pre-
sent state of the trade to South America, which
caused this excitement, fully justifies the fears
which we originally expressed, that
.its fruits
Were greatly over-rated. The Captain of a vessel
recently arrived at Guernsey from the Pacific
Ocean states, that no less than 80 merchant ships
were at 'Valparaiso at his departure, and that,
from the disastrous state of trade, it was pro-
bable that most of them would be obliged to go
to India for return cargoes.

[MORNING POST.]
Paris Journals to the 19th instant reached our
Office last night by express. The Constitutionnel,
we rejoice to find, has redeemed its pledge, and
published two official bulletins of the advantages
gained by the Greeks over the Turks, since the
irruption of the latter into the Morea. These
details are therefore posterior to those given by
the Austrian Observer, which only announced
the arrival of the Ottomans, and shewed that
the exultation expressed by that Journal and
its confreres in this country, at the anticipated
destruction of Greece, was at least premature,
and may ultimately turn out to have been
unfounded. The Turks indeed penetrated into
the Peleponnesus at the time when its arms
were fighting the battles of independence in
Thessaly and Epirus, and it,might not be unrea-
sonable to suppose, that under such circum-
stances they would gain easy possession of the
whole of that Peninsula ; but the patriotic he-
r*ism of the calumniated Greeks, and the firm-
ness of their aspersed Senate, having resisted
and repelled the blow, however sudden and un-
expected, their cause, instead of being ruined,
must have gained additional strength by its
triumph over so severe and so perilous an ordeal.