The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-10 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the Magpie, Rich.
mond, before C. JEMMETT, E 9. Coroner for the County of
Surrey, on the body of Edward Shearman, many years master
of the Parochial School there, who was found hanging to his
bedstead on Monday morning last. The Jury, after sully in-
vestigating the matter, returned a verdict of Temporary In-
sanity. ' It appeared that the deceased, who was a man of
sober and regular habits, had (as was supposed from assiduous
application to the duties of his vocation) been frequently at-
tacked with violent pains in the head, which had been consider-
ed nervous, and, no doubt produced the fatal deed.
A Coroner's Inquest was held on Tuesday night before T.
SHELTO Esq.. Coroner, at the Swan and Sugar Loaf, Fetter.
lane, on the body of Ambrose Gosam, an Officer on half pity,
lodging at 18, Cursitor-street, aged 66 years. It appeared the
deceased had for a longtime been subject town asthmatic com-
plaint. On Tuesday about eleven o'clock, he went to a Mr.
Wild's, and returned in about an hour, when he was seized
with a violent coughing; he drank a gill of wine, and then re.
tired to bed, where he lay about an hour, when the cough again
seized him, and the pulse ceased to beat. After a few words'
from the Coroner, the Jury returned a verdict of " Visitation
of God."

:Monday 'an Inquest was held at St. Thomas's Hospital.
on Thomas :'Cullen; a seaman, who, it is supposed, must
have fell from the main-toast of an outward-bound vessel
off the Nore. The only evidence adduced was that of
Charles Paingdestre, a dresser in the Hospital, who stated
that the deceased was brought there last Sunday we,pk ;
he examined him, and found he had received a violent
bruise on the head, and his left 41311 was also broken after
death it was discovered that his skull was fractured). 'Every
attention was paid to him, notwithstanding which he expired
on Sunday night last.—Verdiet—" That the deceased died in
consequence of the injury he had received, but how it was re-
ceived did not appear to the Jury."

Yesterday morning some thieves entered the
house of Mrs. Worley, No. 8, Charlotte-row, by
cutting the shutters with a centre-bit, but being
disturbed by Mr. Burcombe, who resides next
door, they ran away, leaving some property
made up in a bundle. In the course of the
day, by the vigilance of Mr. Snow, the constable,
the two men were apprehended.

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'rrii LONDON JOVILNALS.

EXTUACTS riteim TUE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
April 10, 1823. •

[MORNING POST.]
Private letters from Paris, after.mentioning the
•Pnexpected return of the 'Duke of Belluno, state
that he had experienced the mortification of
having his services rejected by the very valiant
, %lid distinguished Commander now about to lead
the armies of France to ravage the surface, and
slaughter the inhabitants, of an noon-ending
,country. If it required any other than the
, slightest evidence to establish a fact which in-
volves a charge against the Duke d'Angouleme of
a presumption and extravagance violating de-
cency, nay, even torching the verge of treason,
we should hesitate to yield belief to such infor-
mation upon such authority. But in truth the
character of this Prince and of the Party with
which he is connected, -either as its leader or
its dupe, is now so well established, that any im-
putation upon them of folly, absurdity, or, crime,
is entitled to a more prompt and unscrupulous
credence than it would obtain if attempted against
any other human beings. The imagination must
be indeed active which in this direction can out-
run facts, and the enmity impatient which can
form a wish to forestall them. It is quite as
decent, and probably quite 'as safe, for this Prince,
at the head of a French army, to set at open de-
fiance the decree of his Sovereign, as it was for
him to place himself there, in pursuit of such
objects as lie and Ms party have in view.

-.LIMIT PRESS.]
Sir John Malcolm, we have good reason to
believe, is shortly to be appointed Ambassador
In Persia, Ministers having, at length, brought
themselves to believe that it may not be,quite
prudent to trust to the magnanimity of the Em-
peror of All the Russias, should his influenie in
the Persian Cabinet give to his councils a greater
preponderance than the legitimate interests of
this country might render safe. The Russian
has , long since manifested a wish to make his
dominions morel conveniently extensive, and this
we all know is " an appetite that grows with
what it feeds on." NVe have not quite forgotten

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the Ukase issued about two years since, respect-
ing the ,commercial regulations regarding the
Pastern coast of Asia and the north-west coast of

America.. This. was, of itself, enough to weaken
any superstitious' respect which his Imperial
Majesty might have inspired' into our Govern-
ment in favour of his moderation. Our Ministers
have no objection to his taking the liberties of
Spain into his holy keeping ; but to take a hundred
mi.leg of the open ocean under, his exclusive pro-
tectiop, is an imperial. stretch of benevolence,
and.heing " righteous overmuch," The present
aspect of affairs make it, no doubt, extremely ad-
visable to attend to the `di.Terent objects which

may actuate the ainbition oftis rni .y Monarch,
end no one possesses higher requisites,'.or it in
every respect better qualified to be sent Ambas-
sador to the Persian Court, than the distinguished
individual to whom that important mission is
about do be confided.

[Tux Times.]
The Proclamation which ere. nowi we presume
has been addressed to the Spaniards •by their
invaders, found its way into our journal of yester-
day. It bring together all the no-reasons for
one of the most abominable and cruel acts that
modern times have witnessed. We have often
compafed this invasion of the Peninsula to that of
Buonaparte iti 1808. Besides the general simi-
litude of two measures, each has.its peculiar and
character4,c f.eatures,of atrocity. In some re-
spects, the more recent is the more criminal.—
Buonaparte was certainly invited, as an umpire,
to settle the differences between the father and
son, however perfidiously he may have provoked
the appeal to 'himself, or however dishonestly he
availed him Self of the arbitration. after he had
accepted it. 'Da what party has ever called in
the Bourbwcs to decide the difference's now ex-
isting in Spain ? or, where has the document
appeared in which the call was made ? The Duke,
of Angouletne's .Proclamation has no reference
to such an invitation:: it in truth declares.
the invasion of the Peninsula to spring from
the mere motion of the. Bourbon Faction in
France. They have waited with patience,
they say : " Two months and a half have
" passed, and they' have in vain expected the
64 establishment of an order of things in Spain."
They, therefere, unsought, unwished-for, now
step forth of themselves, to impose those laws
upon an independent country, to which they
had thought the native inhabitants would subject
ther*elves, from the mere surmise of what
might, please foreigners. But the Spaniards,
it seems have carried 44 their efforts beyond
St their own frontiers." " They have tried
44 all means to corrupt the army of his Most
44 Christian Majesty." Bur whence came it, we
ask,- that an army of his Most Christian Ma-
jesty- was -within corrupting distance in time
of public peace? A foreign army upon the fron
tiers of an imkpeodent state is an aggression ;
and who would not endeavodr to weakeit the
force of those by whom they are to be invaded ?
Let.us put a similar case :—suppose England de-
prived of her navy, and hostile fleets hanging
upon our coasts and stopping up the outlets of
our ports,' while party; fury raged ,in 'the interior
of the country, Should not we endeaveur to
seduce the foreign seamen 'to desert L Should
not we invite them to run their vessels u:;der
our batteries and join Us ? And should not
wo be • justified irusuch proceedings upon every
prioeiple of self-defencel -,The aggression Is in
placing the fleet in a menacing position, not in
the efforts made by those who are menaced to
draw part of it away. Upon: -what a frivolous
lying Buonaparte-pretext was:•the French army
firsl assembled on the Pyrenees : it was a sana-
tory cordon,: then it was an army of observation.
Was it ne_vcr to be approached, even with fair
words till it. had drawn Spanish blood ?

CMOUNING cifitosicl.t..l
Those of our Readers who yesterday perused
with attention the French Generalissimo's Ad-

dress to the Spaniards, preparatory to his cross-
ing the Pyrenees at the head of an armed force,
must have 'been struck, not only with the false-
hood and canting hypocrisy of the language made
use of, throughout the whole of this State Paper,
but also with the bold and barefaced avowal that
the French Army enters the Peninsula,not to avenge
injuries received ; not from any actual motives of
provocation, but to stir up parents against their
children, to arm a band of furious fanatics, in
short, to plunge, in the first place, the country
in all the horrors of anarchy and civil war, and
then, if the effort is successful, to give UP the in-
habitants such a code of laws as a Committee of
French Ultras, with the Duke d'Augouleme at
their head, -shall condescend to enact. Never
was a greater insult offered to the understand-
ings of men—never was a greater outrage com-
mitted against national independence. By every
means of artifice, by an appeal to the basest
passions, and by the expenditure of immense
sums of money, the French succeed in collect-
ing and arming bands of hirelings and disappoint-
ed persons, such 'tis for pay may be found in
any country ; they exultingly denominate them
the Army of the
,Faith, as if their countrymen
who follow the constitutional banners were so
many heretics ; and having done this, they call
the country anarchical, and insult it for the
work of their own hands. The chief employment
of the French Government and the Paris Police,
during the last two years, has been to devise
means by which they might be unable to dis-
cover every fanatic, and disappointed Spaniard
and Portuguese, both in and out of their country,
who could in amp way serve' their base pur-
poses.' WTith this object in view, both portions
of the Peninsula have been thronged with agents
and spies, whose only occupation has been to
corrupt and divide. In both the Madrid and
Lisbon Palaces, the effects
.of their vile machi-
nations have been felt.—They have prevented
Ferdinand from seconding the efforts of his
loyal peOple ; they were at the bottom of
the revolt of the Spanish Guards on the 7th
of last July, and the projected massacre that
was to follow ; whilst, in Lisbon, it was they
ho set the Queen at variance with the new
order of flans, which she hAd previously sanc-
tioned and approved of in the most open, enthu-
siastic, and complimentary manner. Yet all this
the Duke d'Angouleme now calls " the counsels
of benevolence and reason," and says that
he is going " to put an end to the anarchy that
tears Spain to pieces ;" that he is going to restore
despotism and the Inquisition, and replunge
the country into the same state it was in
from the year 1814 to 1820, when the dun.
geons were crowded with victims, and the liberal-
minded, who were fortunate enough to escape,
were exiles in a foreign land, many of them
at the time `fed by the bounty of Louis XVIII.
himself. These are the blessings the Duke and
his amiable spouse would gladly bestow upon
the Peuinsulars ; these, are the acts of ." bene•
volcnce and reason " they are so eager to 'dis.
pease; acts which, if they can only succeed,
eventually enrol their names among the Roya
Saints of France.