The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-04 00:00:00

CO RON ERS' INQUESTS.

MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF INEBRIATION.
A Coroner's Inquest was held, at twelve o'clock yesterday,
before 'l'. Stty.t.ToN Esq. Coroner, at St. Bartholomew's Iloa-
pital, on the body oeCharles Combes.
Eliza Combes, daughter of the deceased, who resided at
No. 7. Honeysuckle-court, Moor-lane, deposed, that on Thurs-
day morning last she was in the front room, on the ground
floor, her father and mother were in a back room—she heard
her father take a dish out of the cupboard, and let it fall,
knocking down a teacup at the same time—she instantly rah
into the room, and saw her father in the act of putting, a
•saucepan on the tire, without any water in it-:-he next took up
the dish, which wax not broke, and put it on the copper; her
mother told him to take It off—he _said he should not, but
shortly afterwards he attempted to do oio, and caught his foot
in a stool which crossed the room, and fell with the dish in his
hand, which then contained a large piece of beef—the dish•
broke into two pieces, and his head came in contact with the one
part; be was much intoxicated at the time, and his head bled
profusely ; he rose up and attempted to strikewitncss's mother,
but for what witness cannot say; a surgeon was then sent for,
who came immediately, but her father said he wanted'no man's
assistance, and refused to let him dress the wound ; he then rose
up and walked to the hospital • witness cams with him, and
before ping in he said he would something to drink, which
he did. The surgeons of the hospital shaved his head and
dressed the wound, and he then went out and stopped in a pub-
lic-house three hours, after which he came home, and on
Fri-
day got up in the morning, and was tipsy again the whole day.
On Saturday he came to the hospital, where he remained until
he died.
Coltoemit—You are sure he fell without being pushed ?
Witness—lie did.
CoaoNEß—Did not your mother push him P
Witness —No.
The Sister of the Ward observed, that when the deceased
came in, he said he was pushed down.
CoßowEn—" That cannot be received in evidence."
Mr. J. fl. Perry, house surgeon, deposed, he saw the de-
ceased on Thursday last—he had a severe cut on the top of his
head, four inches m length, which was dressed, and witness
told him the consequence might be fatal if he did hot remain
in the Hospital, but he would not—be was much intoxicated at
the time. On Saturday he came again, and had considerable
inflammation in his head and face—every thing was done that
was requisite, but he expired on Monday evening, about seven
o'clock, from the effects of the wound, aggravated by intem-
perance after receiving it.
The CORON En addressed the Jury on the melancholy occa-
sion, observing upon the deceased's intemperance ; and that
if any one had pushed him down, It wat his wife, who could
not be examined on oath. _ _

Nrerdict—" Accidental Death, through intoxication."

Yesterday an Inquest was held before Mr. Moos, at the
Feathers, Dean-street, Westminster, on the body of Henry
Gerrard, a journeman carpenter, who was on Monday found in
the ditch that surrounds the ineiosure of St. James's, in a tit
of apoplexy._Verdict, " Visitation of God."
esterday evening, at seven o'clock, an Inquisition was taken
before T. Sur I..rokr, Esq. Coroner, at the Star in Nag's
Ilead-court, Gracechurch.street, on the body of Elizabeth
Saunders, who was found with her throat cut, in a cistern.---
Several witnesses proved per disordered state of mind for time
timeliest. The Jury returned a verdict—" The deceased laid
violent heads upon herself in an unsound state of mind."
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, a respectable Jury as-
sembled at the Portland Arms, l'ortland Town, before Mr. Sr i n.-
LING, Coroner, on the body of Daniel Woodcock, a soldier,
who committed suicide on Sunday last at noon.—Verdict,
" That the deceased Daniel Woodcock did commit the dreadful
act of suicide, being at the time in a state of temporary mental
derangement." — .

YELLOW FEVER.—The following circumstance
is a remarkable instance of the non.contagion
of the yellow fever :—A young Englishman,
who arrived at St. Themes with a young and
beautiful country woMan, whom he had secretly
married, was attacked by the yellow fever. When
the disease was at its height, and the symptoms of
inevitable death became apparent, the young wo-
man, in despair, and determined not to survive the
object of her affections, undressed herself entirely,
and placed herself by the side of her dying hus-
band In bed, embracing his body. She remained
for ten hours in this situation, and was with dif-
ficulty removed after he had breathed his last.
She did not experience the slightest symptom of
the disease.

BARONY OF STAFFORD.

'We have already mentioned that Mr. Pets,
had informed the agent of Sir GEORGE ER-
NINGIIAM that the Crown would offer no opposi-
_

Lion to his claim to the Barony of Staffurd. The
circumstances of that claim are as follow :7-

In the year 1807, on tile decease of Lady Anastasia Howard,
the niece and surviving co.heir of John Stafibrd Iloward, loot
Earl and Baron of Stafford, the late Sir William Jemingitam.
Baronet, cousin and heir to Lady Anastasia, and gieat nephew
to the Earl, presented a petition to his late_Majesty, claiming
to be summoned to Parliament, in respect pf the Barmy of
Stafford, which had devolved upon him.

Sir Vicary Gibbs, then Attorney:General, to whom the ped.,
don was referred by the Crown, in his Report thereon, after '
stating that the pedigree of the petithiner had been satisfactorily
proved before him, recommended the Crown to refer the peti, -
don for further consideration to the House of Lords. • ,
Sir William Jerningham died in 1802, and Sir nente;
eldest son and representative, has, from that period to the
sent time, continued to prosecute his claims to the Barony.
The Barony of Stafford is very ancient. Edward Stafford,
descendant and sole heir of the . body of Thomas Plantagenev
younger son of King Edward 111., was Duke of Ruckilfgham
and Earl of Stafford in tl:e reign of Henry ViII., when 14
was beheaded far alleged high treason. Ills only son, &levy
Stafford,' was restored in blood (1 Edw. VI.), but admitted Only
to the Barony of Stafford, which descended thimigh 'rata
generations, to Henry, Baron Stafford, who died without
eaving his sister Mary his sole heiress, and she afterwards
married. Sir William Howard, second son of the Earl of
Arundel.-
The Barony of Stafford was reskrred or reLcreaied, by letters.
patent (12 Charles 1.), by which Mary was made. Baroness of
Stafford. Her husband also was made Baron, and subsequently

Viscount, of Staffbrd.
The only doubt which has been suggested as to the validity of
Sir George Jerninghtim's claim to the Barony under thls,pa. -
tent is, that it may possibly be affected by the attaindet. of 'hie
ancestor, Sir William Hovinird, the Viscount Stafford pist
mentioned, which attainder took place in the reign. of king
Charles IL ; but Sir George's claim is founded solely on his
being the great grandson and repret-etitative of. Mary, 13bsonesI
of Saffordabbve4nentioned, the wife of the Iriseount, and wha
after the death and attainder of her said husband was summon-
ed, as a Baronesi, to thp Coronation of King James 11. In re-
spect to the attainder, however, it may be proper to state the
following circumstances:
In December lOU, the House of Commons, in the then Par.
liiuuent, impeached Sir Wilburn Howard Viscount Suiffind,
The high treason, in conspiring the death of King Charles tilt;
Second, And the subversion of the Government; amid in De•
cember lop, the Viscount was tried before the Peers in Perlis-
ment ; and 54 of the Lords finding him guilty, and only 31 of
them finding blot not guilty, lie was adjudged to death, and
executed accordingly:
About four years and a half after having so condemned Via.;
count Stafford, the House of Lords becoming convinced of his
entire innocence, and of the perjuries of the witnesses against
him, passed a Bill, by which, after reciting its being then ma-
nifest that the said Viscount was innocent of the treason,
laid to his charge, and that the testimony upon which he was
convicted was false,—lt was enacted, That the said judgment
and attainder should be reversed, and made void,- to all intents
and purpose.-:
The Bill of reversal was immediately sent by tit:, House se
Lords to the then House of Commons, and was read twice in
the latter House, and ordered to be committed ; but on the
day subsequent to the one on which it was committed, news of
the landing pf the Duke of Monmouth arrived in Londe).
which caused an adjournment of the two Houses, by command
of the King, and nothing further appears to have been done OA
the Bill.
Some time after the dissolution of the Parliament, in which
the Lords so Jimmied the Bill of reversal, the Viscount Sta.
ford's eldest son was created Earl of Stafford by letters patent,
with limitations to the belt's-Male of her body, and with re»
mainders over successively' to his brothers-in.tailanale ; anti
the letters patent recited the innocence of the Viscount, and his
having been convicted on the testimony of perjured witnesses,
and made his widow Countess of Stafford, jin. her ly?, and gave
to her daughters and younger sons by him, the same precedency
as if their father had been an Earl, and remitted all forfeitures
from die said attainder; and under the same letters patent the
Earldom of Stafford continued, till thete.was a failure of issue
male from the Viscount Sudford, by the death of John Stafford
Howard, last Earl and Baron Stafford, without issue, in the
year 1762, leaving his three nieces, the Ladies Mary, Ann, and
Anastasia Stafford Howard, co-heiresses. Between these
Ladies the Barony of Stafford descended in abeyance; and to
the survivor of them, who died without issue id the year 11107
as before stated, Sir William 3 erningham Was heir.

VESIALE Rennes:.—For the last ten daj►s SM..
ral Harts of the outskirts of town have been in-;
tested by a powerful woman, who makes her
appearance on the road after dark, and robs any
lone female or infirm person with the greatest irn.
punity. About a week ago she attacked an el-
derly man beyond Camberwell, on his way to
town from Sydenham, and robbed him, of his
watch, some silver, and a small bundle which he
carried in his hand, with which she escaped acro.
the fields. On Saturday night the same depreda-
tor robbed a female near Clapham Common of a
shawl and about 15s. in money ; and last
night she made her appearance near Stoke New-
ington, and plundeted a lad of a bundle of new
clothes, with which he was returning 'to that
place from town, and in about an hour after-
wards she succeeded in robbing an elderly man
of all the money he had about him, and a gotd
headed cane. It is supposed she is attended by
an accomplice, who is near at hand to aid her
escape, in the event of resistance or pursuit. The
Police Officers are on the alert for this lady, and
they will no doubt secure her in a few days.

ROBBING ERRAND.CAIIM—The practice Ot.t
stealing boxes and parcels from errand-carts in
going out of or returning to town, has become
very prevalent, but in no neighbourhood is it
carried on to such an extent as at the east end of
the town. On Tuesday, a box was stolen front
the Romford errand cart, which contained property
to a very considerable amount ; among the
articles were the following :—An Indian crape
scarf, a lace ditto, engine-turned gold watch,
tine gold chain, &c.i two white morning dresses,
a brooch, a pearl necklace, three white muslin
skirts, three petticoats, three pair of silk stock-
ings, &c. They were the property of a lady in
the Commercial-road. Information was given to
Forster, of Lambeth-street Office, but although
he found the box (empty) in George-yard, none
of the property ln.s been found. Two men were
stopped in Wentworth-street, with a box con-
taining a great quantity of bed-linen, and, from
its appearance, there is little doubt but it was
stolen from some errand-cart. No owner has,
however, yet been found for this box and its
contents.

A young man, named Walter Clark, has just
committed suicide upon the ramparts of Boulogne.
The evening before he had been at the tavern
of M. Dupuis, to whom he gave two
Ivbiell piece
s of
gold for two glasses of brandy, had
called for. M. Dupuis not being able to induce
this young Englishman to take back his two
pieces of gold, repaired next morning to the
Commissary of Police to give them upf and
ob-
served that the owner must be out of hisniind.—
Three hours after the unfortunate Walter Clark
confirmed the justice of this remark, by puttina
an
end to his fire,—(Jdurnalckt Debates)

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'Ti E LONDON, JOURNALS.

DA 1.14
I..latrasts from the Morning Papers, September 4

[MORNING HERALD.]
have received the following from our
Piizis Correspobdent
SEPT'. I, lB23.—The French troops
Nave tbade an attack upon the Trocadero, and
haVe'been repulsed with considerable loss. They
we'r'e preparing also for an attack upon the bridge
of Suazo, which communicates with the Isle de
Lebtf.:.There is some confusion at Madrid, and
cnitiiderahle alarm amongst the members of the
ilionoy, in consequence of the near approach to
Madrid of a regular 'body of Constitutional
hoops."

• [Tits TimEs.l
114rOday extraordinary
.courier arrived
-fr'ato`Spain, with advices from Madrid of the
27ttliartdA from Port St. Mary's of the '23d ult.
Wttiiilitioned in our Paper of Monday, that a
lettei had.-been addressed by the Duke of Al)..
to Ferdinand VII., proposing, on cer-
lairi 'terms, to make peace with the Spanish
nation 4, and have now to communicate, accord-
ing Id the best information that can be obtained,
the mode in which the propositions have been
replikl to.. .'We are assured that the answer of
Ferdinand hfts been written with his own hand,
though pi'obably at the dictation of his Ministers,

and ktiatit is one of the most spirited, dignified,
and luminous documents that has issued from the
samet'source during the present contest, exposing,
vithpowerfill talent and in a highly indignant tone,
be hypoEritiCalpretences and violent aggressions
of the French Government. Ferdinand, who ad-
di•esses' his letter to " Monseigneur le. .Duc et mon
" Cousin," begins by stating " that he is. free,
" and that if he has suffered any curtailment of
" his liberty, it- has only occurred since an in-
" vading. force entered hiS,dominions, for the
4C purpose. of delivering him from bondacre."--
" His Royal Highness," proceeds the bondage."--
" laments the existence of disorders, which he at-
" tributes to the work of faction, and professes a
'.4 desire to save the further- effusion of blood.
" 'Royal Highness, his Majesty the King of
"• France, and the French Government, who are
alone the authors of the war, are alone respon-
-44 sible for the blood that has been already shed,
" and which may yet be shed." The , Royal
autograph pies on in substance to state, that
if .any calamity happen to himself, or to
his Royal Family, from the accidents of .the
threatened attack ; or if the " faithful people of
64 Cadiz," so worthy of his royal regards and inter-
est, suGred those disasters which are the usual
concomitants of a protracted siege " the King of
"France, and his Royal Highness the Duke,"
'would have, to answer to the world and to poste-
rity for those calamities and disasters. The
latter part of the letter, though we are not en-
abled, to speak on this point with perfect preci-
Aim), contains an appeal to England to save by her
interposition 'both, _Fiance and Spain from the
tainniiaea with which they, are threatened. • This
*reply of the:. King' is dated on' the -,',Lc-2d, and 'was
YeceiVod On the same ',day at the FreoCh
,ht ad-
quarters in Port St. Mary's.

. n ' NEW TIMES.)
The fetters from Paris mention a decline in
the Rentes on Monday. They opened at
,92 45,
subsided at one period of the day 91 SO, but
recovered to 92. 15 by four o'clock ; and it was
said that at a Jater hour they were done at 92 35.
The Ltiberal Journals affected to hint at the pro-
prifavourable news,. but little atten.
tier, was, paid to them. A more operative, cause
tending ,to. the Zepression of the Funds was the
want. of, confidence, among the Brokers, produced
braieTfoßeces of Cleret and others a.week or
two ,ago, which circumstance was more -par-
.tieularly felt on Mouthy, on account of its being
tt settling„4tlay, Nor must it be ;forgotten
that the operations., of, "the campaign,, short
arid decisive AS it ,has hitherto 4een, must have
,iinvolvedAhe French Government in great ex.,
pence, stilich..it will, ere long be necessary to meet
with -a new Loan, or. an issue of Exchequer. Bills---.

'circumstances :to which the monied men in
:Pieria of course look forward, and which must
feperateus.sorne drawback on the tendency of the
Funds to rise.—r-The Phrisiun prices reached yes-
terday upon our own. Consols sustained a fall
froth 83 to 82 for the .itcount. Spanish Bonds
weid-ako lower here, although ;they remain eta-
.tioftary at Paris ; :they closed yesterday at
Colombian Bonds have risen to 4t ;' probably in
codsequence of the advice of some disinterested
friend who has 'gone to. the expence of it seven
'shilling Advertisement to caution the holders not
to eel], wforif die), do they will repent of it."
Some of .ticerir cOrtaialy Seilent that they ever'
bought either these'or Poyais Bonds, which lat.:.
terhre /wittingly 101.

• [swim' elms.]
Tuesday's French Papers reached us yesteri
day. Atigoulemols-propositions, it appearsEwere
at once rejected by. the Cortes,; and the 'long.
cherished hopes of negociation, echoed in; all the
French Journals, have vanished for the present
into 4f thin air." Ther,Pilote and other papers
state, that all hopes of arrangement are decided (y
lost., it iinow asserted, also., that the convention
of Ballaiteros was merely conditional, aud only
suspension or active hostilities between, him an
Molitor, Uri Übe result oftbe negociatioas shout
be known._ Should no treaty ensue, the .Spanis
General, it is added„ was to be at liberty to re-
new hostilities. Though such a treaty as this
were really entered into between Ballasteros and
the
,French, still Molitor- would, take care to eta-
°lion% the Spanish troops, in such a way that
they could not renew= the combat, but .
.at a
deep disadvan'tage. ,13a,%-lasteros, we are Per.l
goaded, will not fight again) unless the
Cortes obtain some .tfecided success, either ot.
Cadiz or in Catalonia. Angouleme, iuthe interval,
had determined, on consultation, :to attack the
Isle of. Leon. Twelve, battalions, ,of Which five
were of)the loan], were unitedat Rota. On the
night'of the .33d, the French gun-boats sailed
from the Prado, under a heavy fire of the ene-