The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-05 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY CASE OF POISONING.

The Jury re-assembled last night, at the Sun Tavern, in
Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, on the body of Fanny
Tucker, whose death was occasioned by her taking opium in
mistake, as stated in our paper of yesterday. The Jury being
impannelled, the Coroner, THOMAS HIGGS, Esq. adjourned
to the Lock Hospital, when the following evidence was taken :
Eleanor Riley, an in-patient of the Lock Hospital, stated—
The deceased's bed was next to mine. On Wednesday last,
about a quarter past seven o'clock, the deceased spoke to me,
and said, that she had a good night. She then appeared to be
very well. At nine o'clock, the deceased complained of being
very sick. From nine to eleven, she 'never spoke, and ap-
peared to be in a sound sleep. A little after eleven, she went
to the deceased's window for some milk, and saw her face look
very pale ; she was evidently very ill. She called for the nurse,
who came, and offered her guel, but she could not take it ; she
said, " No, Ma'am.' The nurse went away, and when she
came back again, she (witness) told her, that the deceased was
so very sleepy, that, in her opinion, it could not be natural.
The nurse observed to the same effect, and the Doctor was
sent for. He came and bled the deceased. She was then
speechless ; the Surgeon attempted to bleed her. There was a
burnt cup ou her box, by her bedside ; the nurse had given
her medicine out of it. She (witness) then observed nasty
black stuff' at the bottom of the cup. Her medicine was of
a pink colour. khe observed that the sediment was like
black grouts. This took place about twelve o'clock. She
only spewed the grouts or black stuff to the nurse; but did
not make any further remark or obserVation to her about
it, except saying that it was " nasty black stuff:"—The de-
ceased wept a little before she saw the change in her coun-
tenance, and exclaimed in a state of great distress, " Oh,
I shall never see my mother again." She asked the deceased
on the Wednesday morning, if she had taken any of the hos-
pital medicine that morning? She answered that she had
not. The deceased never said in her hearing that she. had
taken improper medicine. She never said to the day nurse,
" that there was something at the bottom of the cup like
the lotion," nor did she express her alarm at the deceased
having taken something she ought not. There was a bit of a
quarrel between Smith and another patient ; but it lasted only
about a minute. The night nursg always reads the labels on
the bottles without the use of spectacles. The Jury then ad-
journed back to the Sun Tavern, and—
Louisa Smith recalled. She stated that she was sure that the
night nurse said that the deceased had taken the among media-
cine before the Surgeon came to bleed her. It was perhaps ten
o'clock in the evening, not' later. She believed this fact could
be corroborated by a patient named Hewitt. _ _

Hewitt was examined, but she could not prove the fact al-
leged, as she was not in the ward till one o'clock in the day.
-The Jury returned the following verdict :—" Died in conse-
quence of taking a solution of opium administered to her,
through mistake, by Ann Mortimer, a night nurse of the Lock
Hospital."—The Jury expressed their satisfaction at the con-
duct of nurse Groves. •

FOUNTAINS ABBEY.—We have learnt with re-
gret, that during the storm on the night of the
sth ult., ten or twelve yards of the cloisters at
these venerable ruins fell down. It is, however,
the intention of Mr. Lawrence, in whose beauti-
ful domain of Studley the Abbey is situated, to
have them reconstructed.

COLLEY CIBBER visited the Duke of WHARTON,
at AVinchendon, Buckinghamshire, and taking an
airing with his Grace, the 'carriage could hardly
be dragged along through the heavy clay. "it
has been said," observed the Poet, " that your
Grace ran through your estate ; but I defy you
to run through this:"
PREFERMENT.—The Rev. B. Cheese, B. D.
Fellow of Baliol College, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the
Countess Dowager of Galloway, has been presented to the
Rectory of' Tendring, in the County of Essex. Patrons the
Masters and Fellows of Baliol College.
The Common Good of Edinburgh was let by
public roup, on Thursday, for two years, for 0,4401. a year,
being, we understand, upwards of 8001. above what it was let
for last year.
IVooL.--At the AyrMichaPlmas fair last week,
there was a shorter supply of woollen cloth than usual, and more
buyers ; the webs consequently sold brisker, and the prices
advanced above one penny an ell.—( Westmorland Gazette.)
In the month of October not less than 60,000 bags of cotton
were sold at Liverpool.
On Monday last a potatoe, of the extraordi-
nary weight of five pounds and a half, was dug up in the gar-
den of John Don Ca,ster, situate is 'Dorsey-close, near this
town (Nottingham). The potatoe is of the oxnoble kind.—
Nottingham Journal.)
CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE.--This interesting
subject appears to have occupied the attention of the Magis-
trates of several of the Sessions held last week; and we
trust that the laudable feeling which has been shewn by our
Bench (the Liverpool) on the subject, will have the effect of in-
'clueing the proprietors of steam-engines aed furnaces in this
town and neighbourhood of immediately adopting some means
to remove the nuisance caused by the smoke issuing from
them ; but if any of thein should still contumaciously refuse to
introduce any of the improved methods of consuming the
smoke issuing from their works, we shall be glad to see sum-
mary proceedings adopted against them.—( Liverpool Adver-
tiser.)
_ _

The proprietors of Crassiield lead-mine, Alston
Moor, have lately discovered a vein in their mining-field,
is very productive of lead ore.—( Carlisle Patriot.)
A rich Hindoo lately died at Benares, who had

been a great patron of the llrahmins and Ascetics, and had
devoted large sums of money to building temples, col-
leges for the poor, &c. &c. Twenty days before his death,
which took place on the 7th of November, 1821, he presented
the following address to the inhabitants of Benares :—" I have
lived• in this world a long time (about eighty years), without
being able to acquire any knowledge of the Supreme Being ;
and I have all the while met abundant reasons to convince me,
to the very bottom of my heart, that an uninterrupted happi-
ness can never be formed in this world. But as my soul seems
shortly about to quit the body, I beg your forgiveness of my
faults, and bid you my last farewell."
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, Mr.
Gibson, saddler in St. Andrews, went out to the Links for
the purpose of shooting rabbits. His gun flashed, when he
took it from his shoulder and placed the butt end on the ground.
While in the act of taking the powder-flask from his pocket ite
order to reprime, the gun suddenly went off, and, dreadful
to relate, the shot struck him on the chin, and dreadfully
lacerated the whole of the left side of his face. It unluckily
happened that no person was near him at the time, and the
unfortunate man lay undiscovered in the open air till the
next morning, when, ater a desperate effort, he reached'a honse
on the borders of the Links. Medical assistance was speedily
procured, but we regret to say that there are but 'slight hopes
entertained of his recovery.—(Cupar Herald.)
HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY.—Last week a precog.
ration was taken before the Sheriff of Fifeshire regarding a
child which had been found murdered at Sunny brae, near
Dunfermline. The young wotnan charged with the horrible
crime has been committed for trial. She is about 24 years Of
age, and unmarried. It is generally believed she is insane.
M ELANCHOLY SUlClDE.—(Notthigham Nov. 1)

—Yesterday afternoon, soon after dinnner, the body of a young
girl was found in the new drain in the meadows, close to the
canal bank, on the west side of the Navigation Bridge. There
was not above two. feet of water in the drain, and she lay
with her heels upwards. Assistance was immediately pro.
cured, and she was carried into the house of Mr. Brown, at
the Navigation Inn, where, on examination, it was found
that she was quite dead ! As she was not knots* her frock
was taken • off, and being wrapped in a linen cloth, she
was laid upon some straw, under the brew-house window,
in the yard, and for several lours Wilford-street was thronged
with persons, to look at the body; her face was somewhat
swelled and discoloured ; she had no cap or bonnet on, but her
black hair was fastened with a comb, and her printed frock
hung upon the shutter above her. About eight o'cloh an
Inquest was held upon the body,`before H. ENFIELD, Gentle-
man, Coroner, at the Navigation lnn, when G. Shuttleworth,
a boat-builder, deposed to the manner in which 4)e was
found ; and a female declared that she examined the body
in the prsfence of Mr. Higginbottom, the Surgeon, and there
was no "dark of violence whatever appeared, upon her, per-
son : on hearing this testimony, the Jury brought in a ver-
dict, that she was found drowned; but by what means was un-
known.—When the Inquest was taken, her name was supposed
to be Maria Devon, but on inquiry,this,morning, we learn that
her name is Jane Brown, and she nowlies at the house of her
father, at the top of North-row. She was between 14 and lb
years of age, .and her principal employment was to run lace
with Mrs. Smith, at 4489, Coolpit-lane. She was there yester-
day morning, when her mother came and beat her, and at 20
minutes to twelve she went out of the house, telling her mistress
she would go to another place ; and it would appear that shQ
immediately went and drowned herself,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAII.Y MORNING PAPERS,

November 5, 1822.

[THE TIMES.]
The most striking part of the intelligence
from 'lreland is the verification of what we
affirmed some days ago respecting a circumstance
very likely to occur, viz. a prohibition by public
authority of all attempts to bedizen the sta-
tue of King William on yesterday and this day,
the 4th and sth of November. A Proclamation
was accordingly issued on the 31st ult. by the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Magistrate within
whose immediate province it lies to preserve the
peace of the metropolis, describing the (mis-
called) decoration of the statue as the source of
dissensions and animosities among the inhabi-
tants for many years—referring to the disorders
and direct breaches of the peace which had been
thereby occasioned on the 12th of last July—
warning all whom it might concern to abstain
from exciting any such mischiefs on the approach-
ing anniversary, and calling upon the King's
peaceable and loyal subjects to concur in giving
effect to the Lord Mayor's proclamation.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Holy Allies have the word Revolutionary
perpetually in their mouths. They are now met
ostensibly for the purpose of preventing Revolu-
tions : and they have been occupied for some
time with plans for eying stability to the present
order of things, and preventing farther changes.
The idea that society can be arrested at any par-
ticular stage, is belied by all history. In Europe,
at• least (some say the Chinese are stationary),
the nations are undergoing perpetual changes in
their character. The Atrebatii, and their East
Saxon successors, have, for instance, very little
in common with the present inhabitants of the
British capital. Even the Highlander of Scot-
land, tenacious as he is of Old customs, would
hardly be flattered by being told that he retained
those of the age' of Galgacus unchanged. No
system of education, no regulations which it is
possible for the Holy Allies to devise, can, pre-
vent society from experiencing perpetual modi-
fications; and every change brings with it its
peculiar wants.

Erravrisit PRESS.]
It would seem that something has occured to
disturb the Congress of Verona, something that
interferes with the business of the pleasures of
the Imperial and Royal assemblage in that city.
The Emperor of Russia will return to his capital
before his appointed time ; the Emperor of
Austria is also represented on the wing ; and the
whole masse of diplomatists, clerks, desks, Sze.
it is said will be transferred to Vienna. If this
presumption be founded in fact, the cause must
either relate to the internal business of the Con-1
gress or to the place. If it be sought in the for-
mer, some difficulty has arisen in limine that bars
all ulterior proceedings ; but as the minds of
the parties upon the several subjects to come
under their discussion were pretty well known to
each other before their arrival at Verona, we
are not disposed to seek the difficulty in that
quarter. Besides, if the defect were internal, it
would be fatal ; it would produce not a removal
of the Congress to Vienna, but its actual disso-
lution, unless we are to• presume that the parties
may change their political views with their
change of position—an inference not very com-
plimentary to their understandings. The other
cause is only to be sought in some apprehensions
of personal danger : but that is equally unsatis-
factory. No place is secure against the poi-
soned bowl or the poniard of the assassin—and
the Potentates who felt secure in Paris at a mo-
ment of the greatest possible excitement, cannot
surely be accessible to any fears for their per-
sonal safety at Verona.

[MORNING POST.]

We find it stated that Mr. Healdrin the Court
of Chancery, on Saturday, asserted that what had
recently appeared in the papers respecting Lord
and Lady Portsmouth was wholly false. A
liberal contemporary goes out of its way to say
the reports in question were given in the Morn-
ing Post. It is not true that any false report
of her Ladyship's going to Hustbourne Park
appeared in this paper. Our Readers know that
up to this moment we have never given any ac-
count of her going there at all. We certainly
were the first to announce Lady Portsmouth's
visit to Whlichurch after her accouchement.
We described Dr. Bankhead to have proceeded
to the seat of Lord Portsmouth with another
Gentleman ; we said it was expected at Whit-
church that her Ladyship would insist on her
right to enter ; and we stated a number of per-
sons to have been stationed within the gates,
apparently for the purpose of repelling force by
force, if necessary, any attempt to pass them.—
These are facts which defy contradiction, and
we now re-assert them. If it have gone forth
that her Ladyship actually made the experiment,
which some persons contemplated, or that those
who were sent from her to Huitbourne Park
were denied access to Lord Portsmouth, most
assuredly such statements have not appeared in
the Morning Post.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Among the 'many causes of thi. wretched con-
dition of the Irish are to be reckoned the non-
residence of the Clergy, and a certain degree of
negligence in the performance of their duties.—
The otte.is a notorious fact, and the other also
seems to be admitted in the pastoral charges,
which have recently been delivered by several
Bishops in that part of the United Kingdom.—
The higher dignitaries of the Irish Church
have recently displayed increased zeal and
energy, from which a beneficial effect may be
expected, both on the great body of the Clergy
and on the People. Among the pastoral charges,
which have been made public by abstracts
in the Irish newspapers, or through the press,
the most striking that we have seen is that of
the Archbishop of Dublin. his Grace has
treated the obligations imposed by his clerical

character with a depth of frankness becoming his
high station, and the still higher reputation of his.
talents. In his Grace's charge, however, as in every
other, we think the main cause why the Irish
Clergy are characteristically inefficient and undis-
tinguished, is totally, not to say carefully, passed
over; and that is, the manner in which the
benefices of the Irish Church are bestowed.—
The character and conduct of a clerical, like a
military corps, will depend much upon the class
from which it is recruited. Now, from the best
information of which we have been able to possess
ourselves the Church of Ireland, enormously en-
dowed as it is, holds out neither reward or en-
couragement to Christian zeal, honourable ambi-
tion, or distinguished talents.