The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-28 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

• SUDDEN DEATH.
• Last night an Inquisition was taken at the
sign of the Coach and Horses in (Niettluit-street, Bond-street,
before Mr. Iftoos, the Deputy Coroner for NVestminster, on
vieveof the body of Mr. ,Peter Bailey, late Editor of the periodi-
tal publication The Afriseuni.
John Searle deposed that his father was proprietor of the
hackney-coach, No. 120, apd resided in Jane-place, Old Kent_
road. Witness was 16 years of age, and was driller, of the said
coach. On Saturday evening between seven and eight o'clock,
witness was called from the stand at the end of Qtebee-street,
by the doceased's female servant, to take up, at hr. late resid-
ence, No. ii. Cumberland•place, New-road, near the Vorkshite
Stingo. The deceased and his wife entered the coach, and the
deceased,who appeared in good health and spirits, desired him to
drive to the Italian Opera. Witness drove gently to the Opera,
and, reaching it, some of the watermen in attendance opened
the door, and before the deceased and his vtifagot out he was
compelled to move on a few paces, to prevent obstrtlction.to the
other carriages that were approaching. Witness got. off his box
to let his fare out, when the lady told him the gentleman was
very ill, and that he must drive back again, to Cumberland place.
.Witnes, accordingly. proceeded towards home, when the lady.pulled the check,stnng in Warwick-street, and desired him to
pull pp at the first chemist's shop became to. Th© first he came
to was llttSsrs. Butler's, in Regentestreet, where he sew a lad,
and the lady told him the gentleman was dying,. and requested a medical man might attend him. The lad replied, no person
was present that could render any assistance. Witness then
drove about in search of intdical aid for nearly three marters of
an hour, and at length arrived at the house of Mr. King, the
surgeon, in Conduit-street; when, on opening the coach-door,
the deceased was lying on the seat a lifeless corpse. He was
carried into the house, and every exertion was made to restore
him, but life was extinct.
The Rev. John Corfield, residing at Kensington, deposed to
having assisted to take the deceased out of the coach, who was
quite dead, and pulsation had ceased.
Mr. Hunter Nicholson, assistant to Mr. King, the surgeon
in Conduit-street, deposed, that he used every., endeavour to
restore the deceased when brought into his presence, but
could not. His dissolution was occasioned by the bursting of
an aneurism of the aorta in his inside, from which an effusion
of nearly two pints of blood had taken place, and had lodg.
ed in the chest. He understood he had laboured under the
disease for some time, and the least exertion would produce
the effects that caused his death. 'Was infonned that he
had sung an Italian air in the coach just before he expired, and
that he ejaculated " Oh, Mary. 4", and then fell dead in the
arms of his wife.
A friend of the deceased said, that the' deceased possessed
considerable literary acquirements, and that he was about
pursuing his avocation, in attending the Opera, for the pur-
pose of making his observations on the same and theperfognere,
for the weekly publication, The Museum, of which he was
editor, when he died. He has left a family of three children to
bewail his loss.
The Jury expressed their regret that so much time was
Lost before medical assistance could be obtained, as, in all pro-
bability, if it had been immediately at hand, Iffe would have
been preserved.
Mr. Nidasoa, the surgeon, said, that he was convinced that
had he seen him at the moment he was first taken ill in the
conch, he could not have preserved him.
The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a ver
diet of—" Died by the Visitation of Gov,

SUICIDE:
On Saturday last, an Inquisition was held before J. W.
UNIVIN, Esq., Coroner for the Eastern Division of the County
of Middlesex, at the Pitts Head Tavern, Tyson-street, Beth-
nal-green, on view of the remains of Mr, Joseph--Moses, well
known as a stock-broker in the City of London.
The deceased was of the Jewish persuasion, and had done
considerable business in the Spanish Funds, the fall in the
prices of which had greatly embarrassed him, and in a state of
mental distraction he put a period to his existence.
The Jury having viewed the body.
Mrs. Moses, the wife of the deceased, was examined, and she
stated that her husband had been, for more than three weeks, in
a state of Mind the most distressing that could possibly be con-
ceived, which she attributed to his losses in funded property.—
During each day for that period he had been in a
melinc.holy
state, and at night he could not sleep, but frequently got out of
his bed and traversed the room for half an hour together, and, by his sighs and groans convinced her that his Mental suffering
were very great. , On Friday morning hist, after a very restlesss
night, the deceased rose from his bed, shout seven o'clock, and
went down stairs ; and during the absence of the servants, he
suspended himself by a cord, from a staple, which was fastened
in the wall of the kitchen. And after he had hung about Ave
minutes, he was discovered, and cot down ; his face wattdis-
coloured, and he appeared quite lifeless ; there was no breath-
ing or motion of the body or perceptible pulsation. Medical
aid was immediately called in, but every exertion to restore animation
.proved unsticcessful. She was convinced the de-
ceased was Insane at the time he put an end to his existence.—
Verdict—/asaaiN.

It has been for sons tithe. past in cortternpla-
tion by the leading Intigs of this county (Durham) to have a
meeting on the subject of Agricultural Distress and Podia-
mentary Reform; within these, few days, however, the mana-
gers of this scheme have suddenly abandoned, it, baying been
deterred, it is said, from the further prosecution of their project
in consequence of its being generaity known. that the great Dr.
Cohbett intended to make his appearance. indettl we learn
from tolerable good authatiiy, that an old liouse on Eivet.
bridge has been conveyed to the Doctor for the porpose of
enabling him to attend anti exhibit his invincible front, should
any such meeting take place. wo hope the opportunity wbe afForde4 him, for we cannot contemplate may thing whichill ,would be productive of greater amusement to the public than to see tbe ThAlical Whigs of Durham and the exhibitor of Paine'a
bones fairly pitted at 4 County 51eft.ink—(1)4thilin ColaitY,
Advertiser.)