The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-27 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JULY N.—Wind S.W.—The Thames lndiaman,
Sovereign and Saucy Jack South Seamen, and several other
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outward-bound vessels, got under weigh this Morning with a
light breeze from W. by N. It soon backed into the W. by
S., and the Thames and severahnore bore up.again., 4 blowing
fresh and every appearance of thiClc. weather. • . .

Arrived and sailed for the River the Mary; Ifithirghe, from.
Quebec ; his Majesty's ship Phaeton, fromPOlisMoy thi:
Came down from the River the John, --•---, for Havannah ;
Comet, M'Pherson," for Madeira ; • Countess HareGifrt; nevan
for Van Dieman's Land ; Creole, Cotesworth, for P,.:rhambuco.,
lIALF-PAST Six o'CLocK.--The Royal Sovereigti,. Saucy
&c. still keep the sea.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

FURIOUS DRIVING.

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Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Triumphant Chariot,
Pembroke-mews, Grosvenor-square, upon the body. of. Ann
Cooke, a middle aged woman, who died in St. George's
Hospital.__Thomas 'Joy, a Chelsea pensioner, deposed, that
on tne evening of the 20th instant he was going .from- Hyde
Park Corner to Kensington ; when he arrived at the foot
barracks, Knightsbridge, he heard a voice vociferate, " If you
will not stop you will kill the woman." This induced him
to look towards the turnpike, the direction from which • the
voice proceeded, and on turning round he saw the deceased
lying in the road,• and a crowd of persons round her. _There
were a cart and a gig standing close to the-spot. Witness went
up to the crowd, but he was so MuchconfusF,ri-that he could
not learn how she fell. A gentleman who.was in the gig said
something in explanation to the people,but witness considering
her fall to be accidental paid no attention to hini; andsannot fi-
collect what he said.—Thos. Joseph Wood,Gent., Old Bromp-
ton, deposed, that last Saturday afternoon, aboglsix o'clock,le
was walking on the foot-path by the turnpike,,road at Knights-
bridge on the west side,when he observed a-gig drawnby one horse. The Hon. Capt. A Cochrane, brother to Lord Cochrane,- wasin
the gig at a fast trot. The deceased was the :road
about 30 yards off, and the Captain called to -her, -but did 'pot
pull up till either the horse or the gig struck her, and she WI
upon the ground. The Captain then pulled up, and bitt
of the gig. He could have stopped the horse easily before' if
he chose, because it did not seem that he drove faSter than
many Gentlemen do. He appeared to give directions about the
deceased, but does not believe he gave any account .how the
accident happened. The deceased was going over a- Fait
of the road which was not a regular crossing, and witness
thought the Captain was driving carelessly. There were two
other Gentlemen driving in a curricle at the time, and wit-
ness heard them say it was carelesSly done, or words to that
effect. Mr. C. H. Hawkins, House-Surgeon of St. George's
Hospital, deposed, that he attended the deceased immedi-
ately after she was brought in; she was perfectly sensible.
He opened the head since death, a,nd found the skull greatly
fractured, a large laceration of the substance of the brain, and
an effluvia of blood, which, no doubt, caused her death. Ver-
dict, Accidental Death; Deodand, Thirty Pounds.
Another Inquest was held at the King's Head, Walworth,
on the body of Wm. Godwin, residing in the house lately oc-
cupied by Sir Mathew Bloxham, opposite the Terrace, %Val-
worth-road. The whole family of the deceased, it appeared,
were ill of a fever, in a paroxysm of which he, about half-oast
five o'clock on Monday morning, jumped out of the window,
ran across the lawn, and plunged into a fish-pond, from which
he was extricated alive in about five minutes, but he died in
about two hours after. The Jury, after some consultation, re-
turned the following verdict :—" That. the deceased, in a state
of insanity, threw himself into the fishpond, which, together
with the disease he laboured under, produced his dissolution."