The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-23 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

An Inquest was held un Thursday afternoon
at the Lord Hood, Rick-street, Poplar, by J. W. UN WIN,
Esq., Coroner, on the body of an infant.
George Sully Hood, No. 1, Ebenezer-place, Limehouse,
stated, that the deceased was his child. About II o'clock on
Tuesday morning he went home, and on going into the bed-
room, finding the bed had not been turned up, he turned it up ;
in doing so he did not perceive that his child was in it. Soon after-
wards he inquired for the child, whtn the horrible fact instantly
burst on his mind; he flew to the bedstead, and, on letting
it down, dis:covered the lifeless body of his child, which had
been suffocated amongst the bed clothes. The deceased was
only eleven weeks old.—The father was overwhelmed with.
grief at the time of giving his evidence. Verdict—Accidental
Death.

Yesterday an Inquisition was taken at the D'Oyley Arms,
Blackland's-lane, Chelsea-common, before Thomas Stirling,
Esq. Coroner, on the body of Alexander Scott, a fine boy, two
years and a half old.
• It appeared that the mother of the deceased, who lodged
at No. 25, Cumberland-street, left him in her room while
she went down stairs to fetch some water, and had not
been absent from him above two minutes, when the whole
house was alarmed by his screams. His mother and the
woman who kept the house ran up stairs, and found his
cotton frock entirely burnt from has back, and his neck
and arms very much burnt ; medical assistance was im-
mediately procured, and every thing was done that the case re-
quired, but the infant lingered in great agony for about twelve
hours, during which he never spoke, and then died. Verdict—
Accidentally burnt to death.

The ancient vessel lately found in the channel
of Rother has been cut asunder, in order to be conveyed on
two tugs, drawn by 20 horses, by the way of Hawkhurst, Lam-
berhurst, and Tonbridge to the Metropolis. It had reached Lam -
berhurst on Friday last. The piece of timber, stated in some
of the cotemporary prints of the present week to have been late-
ly found near the spot where the above vessel was-discovered,
it will be recollected we noticed (when describing the dis-
covery of the vessel in July last) as having been found lodged
in the sand against the right side of the vessel. From its hav-
ing been hewed (not sawed after the modern mode of felling
timber) it was doubtless very ancient, and from its being rough
squared, had probably been felled in some of the adjacent
woods, and had floated down the channel of the Rother till
stopped in its progress by being driven against the wreck of the
above vessel.—lt was of solid oak, of the colour of ebony, ml
from 20 to 24 inches square.—( Kentish Gazette, Nov. 22.)
On Monday last, all the superanuated men from his Ma-
jesty's Dock Yard, at Sheerness, were ordered to appear a . the
check-office to be examined, it being discovered that many of
them possess a pension from the army as well as a supemnua-
don from the Yard, one of which they will be obliged to relin-
quish.—A contract was taken on Thursday last, to victual the
convicts at Sheerness and Woolwich, at threepence firrthing a
man per day • the provisions to consist of good ox beef, bread,
small beer, cheese, meal, &c. The contractor is an opulent
butcher at Rochester.—( Kentish Gazette.)
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A widow woman in
Leith, who kept a retail shop, met with her death a few
days ago in a very awful manner. About twelve o'clock on Sa-
turday night, the 16th instant, the unfortunate woman, being
much stupifled with liquor, went into an empty room with
lighted candle, which it is supposed she dropt on the floor, and in
her attempts to lift it, her clothes caught fire, which rendered her
so confused that she did not call fox assistance, although
some persons lived within hearing. A very short time after
she had gone into the room, one of her neighbours, who
had accidentally opened the door, found her lying on
the floor enveloped in flames. Medical assistance was speedily
procured, but the poor woman only survived her painful suf-
ferings a few days.—( Edinlurgh, Paper)
Last night the shop of Air. Gillett, pawn-
broker, No. 36, Old-street, Saint Luke's, was
robbed of a variety of articles, principally jew-
ellery, in gold rings, broaches, ear rings, neck-
laces, &c. to the amount of between 101. and.
121. The villains effected their purpose by
the bottom of the projecting shop win-
dow frame with a centre-bit, exactly beneath
the articles purloined, (the part having been
previously marked with chalk). The gold rings,
&c. were forced from the cards, and the whole
executed with so much nicety, that not a stray
article was left behind, and it was upwards of an
hour after the shop was opened that the robbery
was discovered.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE 0,111,Y MORNING PAPERS,

November 23, 1822.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Dispatches were on Thursday received by
Government, and several letters reached town
the same day, dated from Verona on the 12th
inst. Every thing wore a satisfactory and peace-
ful aspect. The result will probably be the
Issuing a few manifestos and notes, which will
satisfy the Holy Allies themselves, without de..
relying or influencing any one else. Austria will
keep Italy as Russia keeps Poland, by virtue of
the right of the strongest. M. Gentz is, no
doubt, already busied with a recommendation to
the Cortes of Spain and Portugal, to give a pre.
dominance to the monarchical principle in their con-
stitutions, by conferring on the Crown the power
over elections,which it has in France and in another
country not a thousand miles from it. Perhaps the
Turks may be enjoined to make war in a more
polished manner, and to leave always a part of
the population in life, as a nursery for subjects
for future cruelty and oppression. The Greeks
may also be admonished to bear their sufferings
Tike. Christians, and to keep always in mind that
these sufferings are not new, that they are used
to them, and that old and established evils,
and time-hallowed abuses, are better than bene-
fits to be obtained by innovation.—Experience
is in favour of the evil, whereas the innovation
remains to be tried.—lt was, no doubt, on this
principle, that Lord Londonderry lamented so
feelingly, in the House of Commons, the mis-
chiefs which were about to result from innova-
tion in Turkey. •

[IIIIITISII PRESS.]
Dispatches have been received from Verona,
dated the 12th instant, which it is understood re-
present the deliberations in Congress of a -de-
cidedly pacific character, anti that there was
every prospect of a termination favourable to the
preservation of the tranquillity of Europe. A
private letter from Paris, dated on Tuesday, an-
nounces the arrival in that capital of an extraor-
dinary. courier from 'Verona, with dispatches
dated the 13th, renewing the assurance that no-
thing: hostile was intended towards Spain, and
" that the Allied Powers would not interfere
with the internal arpangement of her political
system, as long as it preserved the person and
rights of the King inviolate, and established a
Government not inconsistent with the interests
and stability of other States."—The Paris Papers
of Tue'sday corroborate the private accounts.

• • [TH E TIMES.]
Besides the French Papers of Wednesday, we
have received letters of the same date from Paris,
which state• positively that Mina had .entered the
Seo. d'Urgel., The families of the 'Marquis of
Matallorida and of the Governor of Urgel had
arrived with- all their effects at Llivia, a village
of CatalOnia, near to the French frontiers. It is
also stated that the alarm in the Army,of the
Faith was at its height, and that the soldiers
were deserting by hundreds. The troops at Puy
cerda were closely shut up in barracks, under the,
fear of a general desertion.—The funds at Parisi
on Wednesday
,were-7-Five per Cents. S9f. 30c.;
Bank Shares, 16201.; Neapolitan Stock, 772.
Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 35c. ;.
three months, 251. 20c. After the termination
of the regular business, a fall of about 4. per cent.
took• place im the rentes,in consequence of a new
report of a sudden attack of illness of the King.
The report had not received any confirthation at
the*parture of the couriers, which was late in
the evening, and was 'therefore supposed un-
founded.

[MOR NI NG POST.]
The Paris Journals begin to assume a pacific
complexiotl, and. the Quotidienne itself intermin-
gles in its ravin,s fa war sentiments and expres-
sions which seem preparatory to a change of
tone. Thus it no longer speaks of the invasion
'of Spain as of " a settled point, but is satisfied
with asserting, " that the extinction of the pro-
ceedings against the Spanish Infants would
operate no alteration in the intentions. of
the French Government, if that Government
had previously prepared offensive movements
on the frontiers of Spain." The if may be
very ill placed, for there is no doubt that
such movements have been in contemplation, but
still the assertion that they have not, presents a
remarkable discrepancy in the titatements of a
Journal, which had hitherto declared that the
determination to make war was fixed and irre-
vocable. A similar substitution of doubt for cer-
tainty takes place in another part of the same
article, where au enumeration is made of the
other " causes which may cause France to arm
(not to fight) and rouse Europe." It is evident,
therefore, that intelligence had been received 'in
Paris from the Congress which had compelled
the Ultras to lower their tone.

[MORNING HERALD.]

General O'Donnell is described in the French
Ultra Papers as bearing with him money and
equipments, the product of the " Urgel Loan."
But in some of the Paris Papers we find this
Loan, contracted with, a 64 regency," yesterday
" of Urgel," to-day 4‘ of Puycerda," and to-
morrow perhaps of a" regency" in nubibus, as a
pure fiction—unreal as the chimera. One of them,
an Oppositions paper (Courier Francais,) gives
the following exptanation of it. After stating
that it was this pretended loan that shook public
credit on every Exchange of Europe, it goes on.
H-owever, we, must take this loan of Urgel for
what it really is, and reduce it to its real name.
What does it present to us -A factious party,
almost wholly chased from its country, and which,
being without -resources, addresses itself to M.l
Ouvrard, Whom it believes well provided. The
latters fertile in expedients, sees in this specu-
lation, the means of paying his debts. The Con
stitutionalists claim from him an enormous sum,
as their debtor. He seeks to make himself the
creditor of the Royalists to an equal amount.
Afterwards 'he will establish a set-off—and the
rest of the loan may become what it can. This

is the bottom of the affair. * The idea is not that
of a dunce—and most certainly no apellatire is
less applicable to M. Ouvrard."

[NEW TIDIES.I
Our private_ etters from France are full of ex-
ultation at the result of the law Elections. Our
readers know that the Chamber of Deputies, an-
swering to our House of Commons, renews 1-sth
of its members every year ; for which purpose
the departments are divided into five series, taken.
as indiscriminately as possible from the different
parts of the kingdom. The Elections of the
annual fifth are again divided into those of the
smaller and those of the larger Colleges. The
smaller Colleges, consisting of the smaller pro-
prietors, are naturally regarded as more favourable
to the popular interest, the larger to the aristo-
cratic. The Elections of the latter take place first.
They are just finished for the present year, and
the result is, that out of the Deputies chosen,
the Royalists have obtained seven-eighths
of the nominations. In the greater Col-
leges, the majority will no doubt be equally im-
posing. Nothing can spew in a clearer' light the
miserable imbecility of the Minister, who was at
one time represented in certain English Journals
as the only man of talents in Fratice. M. Decazes
threw a greater weight into the scale of the Revolu-
tionists at every election, until, at lastoot satisfied
with electing a Swiss, and even a Member who in
the rebel Chamber had moved the accession of
Napoleon Li. to the throne, they went so far as
to choose a Regicide! So -different is the:case
now, that Constant the Swiss, Gen. Semele, Bogue
de Faye, and several other ringleaders of the
liberal faction, have lost their elections : and
though we regret that the Chamber is still disgraced
with the name of La Fayette, yet this veteran
Revolutionist succeeded by a very small. Maj-
ority. On the other hand, M. Hyde de Neuville,
the celebrated 'orator of the-ChambiT Inirouvable,
is now restored to the Legislature, as are several
other distinguished ornaments of the Royalist
cause.