The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-08 00:00:00

INQUESTS.

The following Inquisitions have lately been, taken
by one of the Coroners of Somerset,. 'ri-
day, at Wedinore, on the body of John. Goddcn,
An infant, about two years old, who, in the absence
of his mother, was bUrnt, by his Clothes, taking fire,
and died, after languishing
.twenty-fotir hours.—
Yesterdy se'nnight, at Kilmersdon, on the body-of
Eliiabeth Hodges, who was ,burnt in the same man.-
ner, and languished eight hours.—On-Wednesday
se'nnight, atLong Silt ton, 'on the body of Martha
Payne, about twenty years of age. The deceased
was helping to fasten up a cow to its stall; when a
dog passed by; the beast, having a calf by her side,
made a blow with her horns at the dog, and unfor-
tunately penetrated the right thigh of the Unfortunate
woman, which caused her death within the hour.
Verdia on each,ficcident:--Also on the bbdy of
Thomas 'Whitaker, who, in a state of intoxication,
mistook his 'or in going from the Pack-horSe pub
lic-house, i 11:; out at the back door, tell into the
river, and wai7„.i ocaned. A Gentleman, who was
pasSiit by, macre-ki alarm, and within ten minutes,
the deceasedwas got out. Every means to restore
him were ineffe&ually made by' a medical Gentle-
man, upwards of three hours. ,
On Saturday se'nnight an Inquest was held on the
remains- of an infant, which were found in a coffin,
buried in a Corner of the Riding HouSe; -at the Bar-
racks, near Sheffield. It was supposed to have lain
in the ground about ten years. -No information
could be obtained concerning it. It had been re-
marked, that the horses, in exercising, always started
and-were restive in that corner, though they freely
passed over every other. •

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

HICKS'S HALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 7.

Yesterday the General Quarter Sessions for this
County commenced, ,before Mr. AIAINWAHING, sen.
and several other Justices.

.Asher Coften, a Jew,* who lived near the Almonry,
in Westminster, was tried on a charge of receiving'
stolen goods to a considerable amount, ,the, property
of Mr. Hannan, a wholesale ironmonger, of Bush-
lane, Cannon-street. The principal 'Witness was a
man-of the name of Nicholson, ,a soldier in the 2d
Regiment of, Guards, who had been a labourer in
the house ofthe Prosecutor, and who, according to
his (Am deposition, took five dozen of spades and
shovels at a time from his master's house, and%car-
ried them to the hone of the Prisoner; to whom he
always gave one of his .ina4itt.-r's bills of parcels for
the goods, but froth whom he always received con-
siderably less than the amount of the bill. He car-
ried the goods by the Order of, and received the bills
from,'
of parcels a man of the name of Bird,, who'
was an established yearly servant of the Prosecutor:
Nr. ALLEY, for the Prisoner, contended, that; as
the identity of the goods which had been delivered
on a particular day co,ild not nor had been attempted
to be proved, the supposed criminality on a number
of different days were included in the one liidieL
meat. This .never had been suffered in a Case of
Felony ; and there was no authority to support the
praaice of a man being tried for different felonies or
larcenies, or for the- guilty receipt on different days,
by the one Indictment. _ •

Mr. GURNEY instanced a Case of one Hughes who
had received Indigo at different times from a person
who stole it. In that Case, Lord-Kenyon and 'Mr.
Baron Hotham ruled that Cases of Misdemeanour
were different from those of Felony, and that two
or three instances of criminality against a Prisoner as
thing towards one person., and in the same sort of
transaetion, might be included in one•lndiarnent.
The Court were of opinion that' it was no more
than a continued series of one'transaelion.

The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to
be imprisoned for two years in the House of Cot..
reation Cold-Bath Fields.

A Serjeant of tbe./id Dragoon Guards having. been •
in custody at Norwich, accused of the murder -of
Eliza Hedgeley, at Brighton, nearly eleven years ago,
the-tollowing article, copied from The Lewes Jour-
nal, of May 23, 1796, may pot-prove unacceptable
to many of our Readers, who may have lost all te-
colle6tion of the circuulstance

Last. Wednesday., as some • men. were attenipt -
'ing ;to recover a 'bucket which had, faille!) into a
draw-well, upwards of an hundred feet deep, below).-
ing Ao the New Inn stables, in NOrth,street, Brigh-
ton, they drew up, by. the .means of their grapple-:
hooks, which had fixed in one of her thighs, the
body of a young woman, in a very putrid state.-,,
This unfortunate young creature was well known at
Brighton, where she. had, for some• time, subsisted
on the precarious
.and sorry wages of prostitution.
It is not, however, even suspeded, that she put a
period to her own existence; but believed that she
was stabbed with a bayonet, and thrown into the
well; as in her side there appeared a wound,
dentiv- given with such an instrument ; and on. her
head there was a large contusion. It is to be hoped
that,no exertions will. be wanting to bring to light
the,fiorrid perpetrator .of so foul a murder ; which,
it is supposed, was committetkabout three weekS be-
fore the body was found. The ebroner'l Jury,
on view of the body, returned their verdid—Witfid-
'Murder against persons unknown.
" The deceased was esteemed a pretty. girl, and
not long before her melancholy catastrophe had
attracted the notice of a Lady, who took some. pains
to find out from whence she came, in order that she
might make her situation knoWn to her friends; but
She could not be prevailed upon to give the neces-
sary information."-

WIENT Professional_ Men of Education- and
esponsibility doviate froM the general System by
the seietion of a peculiar branch, the sanction of long con-
tinued success is the best criterion of superiority. , •
Thirber.n years have I devoted my praciice to the exclusive
treAtment of Three Disorders, and the successful result of
my plan gives me additional ardor to oppose, as far as. I
able, the ravages of those Complaints whiefiare the most
important in the Catalogue of Human Infirmities.
After initiation into every Branch, as an Army Surgeon,
I formed a wish at an early period .‘if Pratliee to rescue in,
dividuals from the ignorance of uneducated men, or the
equally dangerous precipitancy of general Praattioners.
The Three Disorders, to the Cure of which I have de-
voted my attention, comprise eN,ery - species of VEN E.
REAL INFECTION, whether, of a recent or longdu.
ration ; silly, All kinds of debility, whether arising ffom
the "habits of school.boys, or the indingences of mature
age:. ,And, lastly, tat derangement of the system in wo-
men 'which is called 13A R RENNESS,'of ST E
Numerous Diseases are, the result of ignorance, or haste
in the treatment of a simple Gotiorrhten; and it not un-,
frequently happens that • the seeds .of-Life are poisoned by
tke indiscretion of au unguarded hour.---Ity.a.superior me-
Allot', such Complaints are easily- cured; and, even where
others have failed, I trust that I may presume to offer a
radical 7e-establishment.

Few, however, arc the cases of complicated distress in
this disorder, compared with .the calamitous. situations of
Men, who, from an indulgence in a solitary vice, or the
prevalent gaieties of a fashionable life, acquire that state
of Debility,• which is the unavoidable consequence of such
pernicious habits.
Where -the unhappy sufferer broods over his misery, but
carefully conceals his misfortune,' it may be some conso.
dation for him to know, that although it be an objet of
doubt or uncertainty 'with other Practitioners, the removal
of these Deficiencies by the gradual progress of Renova-
tion, is the acquirement of my Experience. If the rites
of Bacchus or Venus have began to reduce Manly vigour,
much anxiety will be orevenr,id by an early Counterac-
tionbf this languid State ; and in these cases, no great
difficulty will occur. _ .

But where thislleficiency has for years existed, a proper
perseverance is indispensably requisite to revive the slum-
bering Sparks of Life, and to re-animate the Constitution.
MA it It 1E1) WOMEN, who have long been disappointen
in their expeOations of a Family, may be assured, that in
most instances, such defeas are curable by Medical skill.

. The secresy which is so essential to my undertaking,
and the qualifications which 1 have presumed to state,. form
the basis of my
.pretensions, and in coincidence with such.
this. intimation is given, that Mr. Thee may be consu lte.d
personally, or by Letters (inclosing a small Note), at his
hqusc, No. zo, Arundel street, Strand, hear Temple Bar.
i. 'There is an additional Entrance in Water-street,
adiomirtg, and the Name is on both the doors..
MARTIN BR6x, `wiernricr ot the Royal Coll,o ofSurgeons.
A CAuT toN.--Sorna Perskins who falsely ,assert them.
set VC.S. to be 'Members of the Royal College, having for se ye.
ral months past copied my Advertisements almost wprd for
word, and inserted them as their own productions, it is my
duty to mention, that those PersonS are not Members of any
College in London, Edinburgh, or elsewhere, nor have they
any right-to piadise Surgery in London.