The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-24 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

SurcinE.—Last evpning, at seven o'clock, an
Inquest was taken at the work-house, Bishopsgate, on the body
of Mr. John Henry Frankyer. It appeared that the deceased,
in the month of March last, entered the service of Capt. Har-
rington, at Batavia; he was a young man of respectable appear-
ance, but he worked in the ship on his passage to England. After
he had left Batavia, he used to cry and be particularly dejected,
and frequently expressed a wish to return to Batavia. On arriv-
ing in England he resided with his master in Devonshire-square,
and preserved the same dejected appearance. On Monday
evening about six o'clock, he called to a Miss Hedger, who was
sittingin the parlour, thanked her for the kindnesses elle had
sluown to him, while he had been in the house and during his
illness : he then left the parlour, and she followed, but he en.
tered the dining-room, shut the door, and discharged a pistol at
his head, which blew off the hack part of the skull. The pistol was
one which his mnsterhad recently had cleaned; they were keptttn-
der his son's lied, but the deceased found them. Ile had loaded
both, intending, it is conjectured, to discharge the other in case
the first did not take effect. On searching his trunk, after his
death, there were found a miniature of a young lady, a hand-
kerchief with several peculiarly tied knots, a pair of costly brace-
lets a pair of lady's silk stockings, and a lock of dark hair;
and some documents which went to chew that he had the ma-
nagement of one of the plantations up the country, and bore a
most excellent character.—The Jury returned a verdict of
" Insanity."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday afternoon, at four
o'clock, an Inquest was held betnre Mr. II mos, Deputy-
Coroner for Westminster, at the Monster tavern, Sr. George's.
row, Chelsea, on the bodies of Joseph Knowles and John
Smith, two f the vat.wien employed in the extensive distil.
lery of Messrs. Cook, Smith, and Co., who on Monday even-
ing were suffocated by falling into one of the back vats in the
distillery. Verdict—" Accidental Death, through suffocation."
Deodand on the vat, Is.
SUDDEN Di:A.m.—On Monday evening an Inquest was
held before Mr. Moos, one of the Coroners for Westminster,
at the Queen's (lead, I):lke's-court, Bow-street, on the body of
Mr. Thomas Pastur, who died at that house on the previous
Saturday. Ile went to bed in apparently good health on
Friday night, and remained in bed until Saturday evining,
when the waiter entering the room found hint on the On: of
death. Medical aid was procured, but in vain. The cause of
his death was not ascertained. Verdict—" Died by the Visi-
tation of God."

Bra.r.'s Lire IN LoNnore, of Saturday, Nov. 27,
will contain the best. account of the Fight at
Warwick, between Hudson and Cannon. (It
will be kept on sale, at the Office, in the Strand,
London, for three days after the 27th instant.)—
BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON, AND SPORTING Cnrto.
Prtcr,t, combining, with the news of the week,
a rich Repository of Fashion, Wit, and Humour,
and the interesting incidents of Real Life, the
price of which is Seven pence, is a full-sized
Quarto Weekly Newspaper, published in London
every Saturday Afternoon, in time for that Day's
Post, by which it may be received in any part of
the Country, within one hundred miles of Lon.
don, on the Sunday Morning.—Orders attended
to by all the London and Country Newspaper
Agents, Booksellers, and Postmasters ; also by
Messrs. SMITHS, No. 192, Strand, London.
As connected with this appalling sobject, (the
fires), we . may notice an instance of deparavity, which is un-
paralleled in the annals of crime, anti which might have involv-
ed a another district of the city in the same devastation which the
High-street has been subject to. On Thursday evening. sur-
geon was brought by a woman, residing in Cowan's-close, Cow-
gate, to see her son, a decrepit lad about 1/1 years of ae who is
afflicted with strangury. The surgeon, by the light of a
small fire, observed the lad stretched upon some straw, with
his head resting upon the hearth, and in a state of complete in-
anition. The mother told him (for the lad could not speak) that
he had not tasted food for two days—a story more than :pro-
bable ; upon which the surgeon not only prescribed medicines,
and a copious supply of warm milk,lbut gave her 6d. to purchase
the milk with. He then took his departure. In the course of a
short time, the mother, who had gone out, returned home in a
state of beastly intoxication, wanting her under v,arments, which
she had pawned, anti having spent both the sixpence and the
money she had got front the pawnbroker in the purctv.se of
spirits; she vocceded to kick the poor helpless famished lad ;
and, in the, teight of her frenzy, threw the straw and other
combustibles upon the fire. Very soon the apartment was till-
ed with smoke and flames, which the neighbours extinguished :
and then conveyed the fury to the police-office, where she now
remains.—f The Scotsman.)

There is now living in Hereford, on 01(1 woman,
named Smith, who is in her 81st year, and she has never from
her birth tasted of any kind of spirits, wine, malt liquor, or
' cider ; her sole beverage has been tea. This respectable and
eccentric female has been married 58 years 1 her husband is alive
and in his 83d year, a:AI both of them enjoy excellent health ;
and:though, during their long peregrination, they have been
deeply wounded by the arrows of misfortune, the v-nerable
pair murmur not at the fiat of Omnipotence, and are contented
and happy.
PICKPOCKETS ON TM: EXCITANG E.--Yosterday
a commercial Gentleman of great respectability
came to apprise the Loan IVI A Volt publicly that
the Royal Exchange Will infested by a gang of
pickpockets, who were dressed so like merchants
that their real characters could not easily be dis-
tinguished. He Wits himself walking from the
south gate of the Exchange towards tiweeting's.'
alley, when he passed four of them, who looked
like men of business standing together in con.
versa Con. As lie passed through the knot, he
felt a twitch at his pocket, and afterwards found
that his pocket was cut through, but not suffi-
ciently to permit his pocket-book to drop. Ile
had 1,7001. in bills of exchange in the pocket-
book. The communication was made to put
commercial men on their guard.