The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-06 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest wa3 held at
the General Penitentiary, Milbank, before Mr. GELL, the
Coroner, and a respectable Jury, touching the death of a con-
vict, John Lamb, aged 19, who died on Monday last of the
cholera morbus.

The Jury having been sworn, the following evidence was
taken :

Mr. James Wade sworn.—l am surgeon to the Penitentiary.
The deceased has been here four or five months; when he first
came here his health was very good ; on the 28th ult. he was
seized with cholera morbus ; I was called to attend him l'e-
tween six and seven o'clock on that morning, and on my going
to him immediately, I found him in a very exhausted state,
from the severity of the attack. The deceased did not connuu-
nicate to any person the attack he had till 6 o'clock.
Coroner—How was that ?—Witness. The cell-door is not
opened till then. I asked him how long he had been ill ?
And he said that he believed he had been attacked soon after
twelve o'clock.

You say he did not communicate with any one. Now could
he have done so if he had been so inclined ?-11.1ost certainly
he could; there were cells on either side of him, and if he bad
knocked, his fellow-convicts must have heard him.
How would they have heard the knock—because the cells
are very strong, and a knock would not have been heard
through them ?—lf he had knocked, the report on .the cell side
would have sounded on the ear like thunder, and must have
been heard by the turnkeys. . . _

Is it a customary practice among the unfortunate captives to
knock at the cell doors when they are in need of assistance ?
It is. I asked him when I went to him if he had knocked,
and he more than once said he had not. I attended him every
day, in company with Drs. White and Bright, and every thing
was done for him that his case would admit of, but he died 'on
the 3d instant.

How many prisoners are there now confined here ?—From
280 to 290.

And are any now labouring under the attack of which the
deceased died ?—None. There were two attacked the day after
with the same complaint, but only one seriously, and they are
now quite free from the disease.

Do you attach this complaint to any particular cause ?
Only to the season of the year.
To no local cause ?-..-None ; but probably it was produced
by the season of the year. It is a complaint prevailing every-
where, and we cannot expect to be exempt from it.
Coroner--I know it does prevail. People in my part,of the
country are dying continually from it.-1N fitness—lt is my opi-
nion deceased died a natural death.

Mr. Jordison White, sworn—l am acting Governor of this
prison. The deceased was tried at the Old Bailey on the 7th
of April, 1825. He was convicted of stealing two she asses, and
sentenced to seven years' transportation, which was subsequently
commuted to five years' imprisonment in this Penitentiary. He
was received here on the 25th of April, 1825.
Coroner.—Are there any officers of the establishment present
to shew the Jury the body ?
Witness.—There are two, who will render every accommo.
dation.

The Coroner and Jury were then conducted into an apart-
ment in the rear of the building, and, on viewing the body,
which was placed in a shell, they one and all expressed their
satisfaction at seeing such an improved alteration in the prison.
Juror—(to Mr. Wade, the surgeon.)—ls the general state of
health of the prisoners good ?—lt is.
The Coroner said he could not but express the approbation
of himself and the Jury of the appearance tie prison now
presented.
The Jury then returned a verdict of Died by the visita-
tion of God."

'Yesterday terminated the life of ANNE MOORE,
of this town, the pretended fasting woman, in the 76th year of
her age. About the beginning of the year 1807 this extraordi-
nary impostor lived at Tutbury, a village in Staffordshire, when
she first excited public attention by declaring that she lived
without food, and having offered to prove the truth of her asser.
tion by submitting to be watched for a considerable time.—She
was at last detected in her imposture by a professional gentle-
man of the name of Fox, who discovered that her daughter was
in the habit of conveying her food daily, and concealing it
under the bedclothes.—( Macclesfield Courier.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Oct. 6, 1525.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Whatever may be the consequences resulting
to the Greeks from his Majesty's proclamation
for the enforcement of the Foreign Enlistment
Act; there can be no doubt that all the evil they
may Suffer from the loss of British aid, should be
attributed to the culpable indiscretion of some
busy and talkative persons in this metropolis,
who style themselves the friends of the Greek
cause. It has been insinuated that the object
these parties. had in view was, by their noisy
ostentation, to draw the attention of Government
to their proceedings, in the way in which they
have unhappily succt-eded. We cannot, how-
ever, believe that their very reprehensible con-
duct originated in any such design. We ascribe
it purely to the ridiculous wish to appear in their
circles, for a few days, " big with the fate" of
empires. When the intended expedition of
Lord Cochrane was not only in the mouth of
every individual pretending to any knowledge
of political affairs, but announced and detailed
in the public newspapers, it was easy to foresee
that his Majesty's Government would soon
have no choice left, as to the rigid enforcement of
the neutrality they have, from the beginning of
the Greek war, professed to observe. The open
equipment of an armament for the " purpose of
carrying on, under the Greek flag, hostile opera-
tions against the Ottoman Government, of cap-
turing and destroying Turkish ships and pro-,
perty, and of committing depredations on the coast
of the Turkish dominions," had, as the proclama-
tion truly states, a direct and inevitable tendency
" to bring into question the sincerity of his Majes-
ty's declaration." We deeply regret the necessity
that called this measure forth; but,cOnsidering how
solemnly the public faith is pledged to a " strict and
impartial neutrality," and the friendly relations
subsisting for so many years with the° ttomanYorte,
and cemented by so many treaties, it is quite
clear that the only alternative his Majesty's Go-
vernment had was a dishonourable and unprovok-
ed war with Turkey. It gives us pleasure,
under these circumstances, to state, as we can do
on good authority, that the communications which
have lately taken place between the Courts of
the Great Powers of Europe, have led to an
agreement amongst them, to take, in concert,
immediate measures to put an end to a struggle
so afflicting to humanity, by proposing a media-
tion • to which neither of the belligerents can
object.

[NEW TIMES.]
In another column will be found the Proclama-
tion against violations of neutrality in the war,
between the Greeks and Turks : it would have
appeared yesterday among our other extracts
from the Gazette, but for some unaccountable
oversight of our printer in making up the paper,
after this document was actually in type. In
principle, indeed, we had anticipated this im-
portant state paper in our leading article of
Tuesday morning. We then observed, that 46 the
British Government had enjoined on its subjects,
the strictest attention to neutrality in the war be-
tween the Turks and the Greeks;" that" a num-
ber of British subjects were about to join one of
the belligerent parties," and that in so doing
they were acting " in defiance as well of the
laws of their own country, as of the law
of nations." These averments are confirmed in
the strongest manner by the Royal Proclamation,
which refers to the repeated declarations of his
Majesty that he would maintain a strict and im-
partial neutrality ; it states that his Majesty has
received recent and undoubted information that
attempts are now making to induce certain of his
Majesty's subjects to fit out ships of war, there-
with to carry on hostile operations against the
Ottoman Government, to capture and destroy '
Turkish ships and property, and to commit de-
predations on the Turkish coasts. This conduct,
the Proclamation declares, would be diiectly con-
trary to the Foreign Enlistment Act, a statute
still in full force and vigour, and of which the
main substance is briefly set forth. And here
we cannot but make two observations ; one
is, that the Act not only prohibits British
subjects from entering into the naval or
military service of any belligerent, but from
engaging or procurirg, or attempting to en-
gage Or procure, any persons whatever to
enter into such service. Now we should like
t'o' know whether some persons did not lately at•'
tempt to engage Lord Cochrane to enter into the
naval service of the Greek nation, and whether
those persons (who they are perhaps Mr. Hume
and Mr. Bowling might be able to inform us) are
not,-at this moment liable to be proceeded against,
by'inforrnation or indictment, and to be punished
by fine and imprisonment. Our second,remark
is, that the Tunes, with that mischievous iguor-
once by which it does so much to mislead the
public ou all qutstions of importance, holds out
and senseless notion that it is only
tile FOreign' Enlistment Bill authorises the
Turkish Government to complain of or to punish
subjects for taking part in the .war. This
is:a• gros's and fatal error. The duties of British
stibects'are bound up in those of their Govern-
ment; and .so long as the British Government
professes to be neutral, so long it'atid Wits sub-
jects are 'bound to maintain a bontifide neutrality :
and ,this by the Law of
.Nations, altogether inde-
pendently of any Municipal Law or Statute. The
ttirtstruent Act,• says the Times; was the med-
-014 and; mischievous work of Ministers. This
is meddling and mischievous nonsense. 'The En-
neither abridged any right of -British
subjects, nor gave any 'right to Foreigners ;
it 4itnply provided a more effectual mode of
restraining offences, which were such both by
the Law. of Nations and by the Common Law of
.the` Lind. The wisdom of that law appars. in
the present case by the considerations which we
:pUitited.otit On Tuesday morning. We said -that
those who engaged in hOstile operations against a
Poiver,sitt 'amity With their Sovereign " did not
reflect that tiy their lawless conduct they put in
jeopardy the peace of theiC own country, and the
property and lives ofEnglish subjects who might
be peaceably trafficking in the Turkish domi-

nions." This argument is forcibly stated in two'
passages of the Proclamation :
'" Great numbers of his Majesty's loyal subjects," it is said,
"'reside, and carry on a beneficial commerce, and possess esta-
blishments, and. enjoy privileges, within the dominions of the
Ottoman Porte, protected by the faith of treaties between his
Majesty and that Power: And if his Majesty's subjects can-
not be effectually restrained from such unwarranted commis-
sion of. acts of hostility, it may be justly apprehended that
the Governments aggrieved thereby might be unable, on their
part, to restrain their subjects from committing acts of vio-
lence upon the persons and property of unoffending subjects of
his Majesty."
—To this reasoning there is no reply. It is in
truth no more than a development of the conse-
quences which must attend a breach of the simple
rule that the subjects of a neutral State should
conform to the duties of neutrality.

[TII E TIMES.]
We have received three recent numbers of the
Gazetta Diaria of Mexico (of July 23, 24, and
25), through which there runs a long and inte-
resting
.article by a Dr. Mier, on the encyclic
letter published by his Holiness Pope Leo XII.
on his attaining• the triple crown. The American
Doctor, though a good Catholic, and therefore
disposed to pay all due obedience to the, proper
exercise of spiritual authority, professes himself
an inveterate enemy of the temporal Court of
Rome, and a strenuous antagonist of those
haughty pretensions by which it formerly
disposed of Kingdoms and deposed Kings.
This encyclic epistle had been introduced into
Mexico by a species of ecclesiastical fraud,
and published without the permission of the
sovereign power. The Doctor shows, by a refer-
ence to the example of the Catholic States of
Europe, that no Pope's writ can lawfully be pro-
mulgated in Mexico unless subscribed by the
President of the Union ; and he offers better
reasons for a jealousy of Papal interference in
the ease of the new states of America than exist
on this side the Atlantic. We have seen that,
during the existence of the late Constitutional
Government of Spain, the Pope refused to receive
an Ambassador from his Catholic Majesty, be-
cause he was not free. His Holiness thus took
the part of the captive Ferdinand against the
Cortes, who limited his power ; and being still, as
the sworn ally of the restored Monarch, opposed
to the spirit of reform, he is considered as a dan-
gerous intruder into the concerns of a Republic
which was lately a Spanish colony. On this
foundation Dr. Mier elevates the banner of alarm,
and calls upon his countrymen to resist ecclesi-
astical pretensions, which may lead to political
re-subjection. One Pope gave the New World
to Spain before its extent was observed ; ano-
ther may endeavour, through the influence of the
Priests, to restore to his Catholic Majesty that
portion of the gift which he once possessed, but
could not retain. Troops were at first sent to
pave the way for missionaries—missionaries may
now be employed to open a passage for, armies.
After this expression of alarm, the Doctor pro-
ceeds to discuss the rights of Leo XII., and the
character of Ferdinand. The Pope claiming
only to be the vicar of Jesus Christ, and
Christ having said that his kingdom was not
of this world, neither can that of the vicar be
worldly. How, then, can he interfere for Fer-
dinand, who is described as" a political as well
as moral monster ?" The Mexicans, he contends,
have always been good Catholics, though they
have resolved no longer to be slaves. They have
decreed that the State permits the exercise of no
other religion but the holy Roman Catholic Apos-
tolic religion ; and a Minister was about to set
sail for Rome, to conclude a concordate with
the Vatican on terms consistent with national
it_dependence. If his Holiness refused to receive
the Mexican, as he did the Colombian, Plenipo-
tentiary, from a regard to the remonstrances of
Ferdinand, with himself, and not with the Mexi-
can Government, would rest the responsibility
of a separation from the Holy See. The Court
of Rome, in the Doctor's opinion, will now be
more cautious, and will not refuse a spiritual ar-
rangement because Ferdinand proclaims a poli-
tical heresy. The Doctor examines the Pope's
encyclic epistle in detail, but his further obser-
vations would have little interest for the English
reader.

[MORNING POST.]
A file of Bombay Gazettes to the beginning of
May reached us yesterday. Reports were in
circulation at that Presidency, to which consider-
able credit was attached, that our forces to the
eastward had actually engaged the army of
Bundootah, who had suffered a terrible defeat,
and had escaped with difficulty from the field,
having lost his leg in the early part of the
contest. The latest accounts from Upper
liindoOstan state, that Sir D. Ochterlony had
not left Muttra on the 3d of April, at which
period the most active preparations were going
on,' but nothing of importance had occurred.—
The ships Bombay Merchant and Helen, from
Rangoon, had arrived at Madras. The Govern-
ment Cazethigtates, " that at the time those ships
sailed (April ;3d) Donabew had not fallen ; but
'there was ho doubt of its being in our possession
immediately. The enemy had made several
sorties from it, and had suffered most severely.
.A.'heavy firing was going on when the ships sail-
ed. The 'gallant Major Yeates, of the 26th, we
regret to find, died of cholera on the 12th ult.
The Siamese 'army remained close to Mortally)."