The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-22 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS..

• URTHER ACCIDINTS ON TVIE RIVR!I.
Last eveniug.an Inquest was held at-the Sptond
Eagle, Millbank, before Tiloaranilmos, F.sq.,. on the body
of William Doman, a lad about 111 years of age, Who was Vim-
covtred floating in the Thames. nom the drt:adful 'state of
putrefaction in which the corpse was in, it ie Supposed td have
been in the water several days. The deceased is the son d te.
spectable parents, who are at present in the Weit Indies. 'The
Jury returned a verdict of " Found' Drowned."
Another Inquest was held by the same Coroner, at the Gent.
ral Elliott's Head, Bedfordbury, on John Marsh, a 114abtrat
14, who it appears, whilst amusing himself in reachlnga cork
floating in the River, off a wharf at the end of Villiers4treet,
Strand, accidentally fell in and was drowned.--Verdict accord.
ingly.

An Inquisition was held last night before R. CARTER; Bat}.,
at the Red Cow, Prince's-street, Lambeth, on a young lad
named Brooks, who, while bathing on the Surrey shore on the
Thames, was-observed by severarof his companions to dive in
the water and not rise. Immediate search' was made fur
and very shortly after the body was picked up near the spot
where he plunged in;. the usual means recommended. by the
Humane Society to resuscitate the body were resorted to, but
the spark of life was extinct. The deceased was the or
of a lighterman living In Lambeth. Verdict-0 Accidentally
Drowned." •

I'llE LONIAN-JoUttNALS

DA}IL.
Exiract g front the 11.1 only: Papers,Jztly c 2.2, I 525.

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• [Trlc-'ffims:] • •
Not Withstanding. the .PrepatatiOns said to be.
making for that frightful exhibition called a.
'41...i0n Fight," we hi've yet holes that'a return
of 'right feelingin the owners of the noble ani.-
•mals now destined for;destruction, or, if not, that
a iense.' of duty in the MagiSttates of the neigh-
bouring.district, may Spare us the painful task of
recording that such an outrage to every impulse
of compassion and humanity has occurred among
a civilized people. Prize:fighting is bad enough:
itis an. odious and brutual applicution'of corpo-.
real powers, given to man for self-defence, and
of masculine boldness, which is perverted and de-
graded when otherwise employed than in the
vindication of our country's quarrel, or at least
in-the protection of the peaceful and unoffending
•
against unlawful violence. But the prize-fighting
ratan is a voluntary agent ; .he courts his own
clinger, he makes love to suffering, and has ,
not merely the stimulus of lucre, however
base, to animate him, but he has pride and
fortitude, exclusive attributes of • mankind, to
bear him up under wounds, and weakness, and
despair, and to render agony itself not altogether
insupportable. On the other hand, how is it with
these wretched beasts, in training, as the country
prints tell us, for mutual torment under human
'keepers ? '!'hey exercise no free will—they have
no cause for reciprocal jealousy or
.animosity—
they have not even appetite for each other's flesh
• to-Touse them: far less have they any thirst of
..farne, or consciousness of noble though unsuc-
cessful daring, to chear them while sinking under
the tusks or fangs of an antagonist. The whole
spectacle is one of cold-blooded and wanton cru-
elty. It is not alone a scene of inhumanity, but
a School of it. The butcheries of the arena among
the degenerate Romans, helped largely to swell
the-Praetor's list of fierce and murderous crimes.
_Let one of the mercenary savages who look
to making money by this havoc about to be
perpetrated on a group of fine unconscious crea-
4Ores,subrilit themselves to a bull-dog's bite, or to
the plunge of a lion's claw, and then ask what
Moral right they have to force these poor animals
to the infliction of such tortures on each otlier.
Mian's power over the brute creation is limited by
subserviency to his legitimate wants and
.comforts ; it does not extend to their punishment
for -his vicious curiosity or his barbarous ca-
rites. Such Was' the foundation of Lord Er-
skine's argument, when he recommended in a
speech, well worthy of his great name and
virtues, a law for suppressing the practice of
cruelty to animals. .On the same doctrine
stands the excellent law of Mr. Martin, which
we are confident will at length do good, by
;afEting criminality to the abuse of God's. lir-
ir4creatures. We wish most anxiously that
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such a law could . be extended so as Lo cover
all cases of inhumanity to the animal race ;
and we are not sure that it is not already wide
enough to embrace the poor dogs ,no.w preparing
fot the sacrifice at Warwick." The magistrate
IlttOrferes -eirectnally on this occasion will
•do himself distinguished honour, and the public
arr essential benefit.

• [NEW TIMES.]
. The " Lunatic trustees" Act (Stat. 6, Geo.
IV. c: 74) -which we yesterday noticed, is not the
'ca],y statute. passed in the last Session on the sub-
ject of that unfortunate' malady which unseats
-tilson from her throne. Great inconvenience
as,ytell as injury had been experienced from the
'.stateof the law authorising the traversing of in.
gttlsltions iortanaoy,-JdiocY, and N 072. Compos
.41kricis, for want of p9Wer -to-lirnit the time of
,rosecuting it, and to impOse.a.security-in certain
-caws.
for doing:..so.within a certain tithe,'and also-
:A-I D.:lake due order,for the custody of the person,
and management 'Of the property pending the.
triiverse';• and,- therefore, the statute of the 6th
..aeo, IV, c. entitled
.“ An Act for limiting
We ~litne:'Within which Inquisitions of Lunacy,
and- Non Comros Mentz's, rnay be
•tniv:ersed, and .for making .other regulations
the. .proceidinis, healing • a. . traverse," was
passifd to remedy those mischiefs: The t 4 Lunatic
Trustees" Actextended,to Personal property a
very salutary prOviioli;'whieh; Ily'a Bill brought
in by Wir..Courtenay 41.1824. had, been applied
Lo,!real property, viz. the -authorising the. Lord
Chancellor to appoint.a person to.convey, instead
ea lunatic tru.S.te, Without the necessity of a
dobinission. It al„.so,(iis we'before noticed) sari
bodied in it all the.proVisions of preceding Acts,
Arita was -f0ut4.11r3.-otf',4. similar `principle of conso-
lidation an-it amendment to that which gave rise
to Mr. Peel's: excellent. Act -regarding '‘‘l u ries.—
inay he.conjeCtured from these nae,listirv.,.tllat
the same principle will' induce a similar in:-
iiibvement of the laws• ott. other subjects. But
tl?ere is one _a,bove all others Which requires
tolle prnvided for, and. that ..is the protec-
tiori'of-the persons and' property- of those• Who
are immured - wi4iin the- wall's' of the different
11644404 and• asylums throtxghout the kingdom,
as well as in private establishments; without in-
quiry as to either. ki is well known that many
of such perSonii'are: deserted and frequently for.
gotten by those who placed them there, while
the property is left tri." be squandered laway by
arose tihdhappe.nito haVe-the care of, or to pos.
and'whoie-interest, it is to conceal the
iriatter.; It is, indeed, stir,prislng ,that such an
rtiteiesting subject should not have met with le-
gOative :provisiOn '..before this. time ; but •as
Mr, Peel has proVed hirnseff,.to be a practical
'Sritegman- in that imporrant'departmeilt in which
h; 'tag -so:ernihently' .cirstingtirslied- himself, it
••
...the presumed
.he :give his- attention to
t'ffes most iilterstingsubjtct ithe.cOUrse 'cif his,
improvement of the,.laws. „.

a :The •F-rench' Papei§, svliieli,...arrived list night
,a very' differe4 version of
• i4.U.'staie of: 'the 'rotisegPence,cif.
tlte`itfeeessive •deffikts of tlie,Capitan;Pacha, an,
ti eir 4sneif 1151-'l6 -i epogitdon, i#nd
property provisionally sequestrated. Thai hie
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sures seem to presage that on his return to Con-
stantinople he will suffer death, like so many of
his predecessors, because he could not'insure suc-
cess. His fall is in some degree ascribed to the in-
trigues of the Viceroy of Egypt, who was desirous
of obtaining the chief command of the Turkish fleet
for his son Abrahim Pacha. The Divan, it ap-
pears, had decided that none but the High Admiral
of the Porte could be invested with that rank, or
the Sultan was not indisposed to have permitted
Ibrahim to hold it. Since this decision, the
Egyptian commander, with the view, it was sup-
posed, of preventing a conflict.of authority, de-
clared that he had no need of the Captain Pacha's
assistance, as his own fleet was in every respect
sufficient for him. There is no confirmation of
Ibrahim's advance into the Morea, nor of any of
the other successes said to have been lately gain-
er] over the Greeks, nor of the dissensions which
were represented to prevail amongst them.—The
Courier• Francais announces that an envoy has ar-
rived at Rome from Greece, to solicit the Pope to
point out a Sovereign for that country. It is required
that he should be of a Royal line, and of the ortho,
dox, that is to say, of the Roman Catholic faith.
His Holiness, who has hitherto viewed the Greek
contest with indifference, as a mere struggle be-
tween schismatics and infidels, has been so much
pleased with this application that he has resolved
to give the Greeks all the aid in his power. He
considers them again as Christians worth saving
from utter extermination. This is the story
published by the Paris Journalist. What credit
it is entitled to, we shall probably know in a
short time.

EMORNING POST.]
The French Papers (which arrived last night
_by Express, to the 20th inst.) again teem with
contradictory accounts respecting the operations
of the armies and the proceedings of the parties
in Greece. It is now said that the restoration of
Colocotroni to liberty and power had proved
fatal, not only to the political existence of the
established Government, but to the lives of some
of its members. The arrest of Mavrocordato had
been previously mentioned, but if the present ac-
counts are correct, he was not merely confined to
be put upon his trial, but was at once beheaded,
together with the Minister at -War, Coletti. It
is impossible, however, to ascertain the truth
of these rumours, which circulate chiefly
in the lonian Islands till we receive direct intel- '
ligence from Ode Moreau where the agents of the
Greek Committee are no doubt active in col-
lecting facts. With respect to the naval victories
of the• Greeks, we are better informed. Besides
the official dispatches of the conquering Admirals,
we have the corroborative evidence of the chas-
tisement inflicted on the defeated Commander
by the Ottoman Sovereign. The report which
we extracted some days since from a French
Paper of the disgrace and dismissal of the
High Admiral of the Porte, Kostrib
generally known under the name of Captain
Paella, is almost officially confirmed by Tues-
day's 111oniteur. But what is more impOrtant
still, as it disproves the assertions of the Ati*trfait
Observer. and other Papers; that the losses of
the Captain Pa' ha were imaginary, is tine' fad,.
that thoselosses are made the grounds on whiCh
that Officer is deprived of his command, his pro-
perty provisionally sequestrated, and himself or.
dered up to Constantinople to take. his trial, or
rather- to be executed. It appears that, the
Grand Seignor was prevented from sending him
the
.bow-string at the end of the last compaign
by the interposition of the Divan, who refused
to entrust Ibrahim, son to the Pacha of
Egypt, with the supreme command of the
Imperial fleet, and insisted on its being
left in the hands of the High Admiral. But
this interference can no longer save him, as the
fortune of war has once declared itself -against
him, and afforded arms to his enemies. He is
now Cl-itged with having, out
..of jealousy of
Ibrahim Pacha, slackened the equipment and
sailing of his fleet, sent away the best officers,
avoided the Greek Admiral Sachtury when he
could have advantageously met hitt), and fought
him only for the purpoSe of sacrificing vessels
which he might have saved. In fact; the.amourit
of his disasters is fully acknowledged, and the
whole is made to fall on his devoted head. The
belief at' Constantinople *was that he had lost
half his fleet.