The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-22 00:00:00

.oitolytn.,.o 'N-t)E,i'.

THE tnelanchoiy Otaktrophe of the death 'of
RolisseAtr. a dOitleJltic in the EstAliidi.
'rr,,T•itt of His R. Highness the PitfNCE Of Wit-LllB,
was the stilijeti of an inquisition taken hefoic
joHN W. UNWIN,h. Esq. Coroner for Mnid:eser,
at Brook House, Clapton, on Saturday last, at.
tended with circumstances of more-than common in.
serest.

JOHN Pit [Allis, Esq. Surgeon to His. Royal
Highness's Household, stated as follows : " I was
called in to visit the deceased an the gth of January,
in the morning.: I found him in a state of great agi.
tartan and debility, from excessive vomiting ; he
deClared he was poisoned---le complained of great
giddiness in, his head, and that his palate was al.
kded with a taste of copper; The sickness conti.
nun! upon.
him, and his sight, was considerably im
paired till the followingMoeday, when a vi:.lent fever
gradually ieized him, and he became Trite franc c.
The deceased was reinlved from Carleton 1.4..)u5e to
Chipton, in the highest exacerbation of fever, on
the Sunday, and died there on Wednesday. I open,
ed the body ; the inner membranes of the brain were
in a high state of inflammation, and stime.watcr had
exuded on the surface. Great ilifidnittLition was vi.
sible in the stomach, particularly on site inner sur.
face near the upier, orifice, to about the exient of
the palm of one's hand ; the other viscera were in a
'Per:fenand sound state. DOttCH'S GCORGR PEAR.
fioti; 61,LR;RT BLAINE, lino myself; wire rmt the
ft/Pawing That ay^ primary complaint
Was in, the stomach, but immediate 'cAuse of
death was head." I undersmod the
deceased had. taken' milk, as WrAS his, liStlia
ti,m, and was•'shottly afterwards seized wits
Violent sickness; and pain: The vessel in w!,leh
the milk had been boiled was examii(-3, but
no traces of poison. could be diszoVeted,. nor could
it be foimd, that, poison had been taken by Att.
which' was execrated from the stomach,, or. by in.
speetiOn of the atomach and bowels after death--
yin, I `t link, nothing. could' hav e proditeed 'the et.
lea's which were, exhibited upon thiTSiomach
brainlint arsenic, corroSive ur some
r k:
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CHARLES. PECK..:Esq.. His Royal 'ltighne:;,,'4
Maitre d'HOtel,deposet he hattbean in 11v: habit of
visiting the unfortunate• Gentleman from time
time until his reitiovAl. ,He alway s deeltred he had
teen p6isoned,,and intimated ti sort of suspicion that
an 'officer employed,twder him had been the cause
but, he observed, shortly, after he was seizedo,vith
the symptoms above•described, he had desired'the
sospeeled ratty td taste some of the milk—he had
done so, .and was seized with the Saltlebympternsrat
the deceased. The Witness further stared, the milk.
man had-been questioned. on the subjea, and he had
declared his:whole family had partaken of the same
milk at their breakfast—the Witness also.saw the
utensil in which the' milk was boiled, tvltich was
male of tin, and he described it to, be in a filthy
condition.

Mi. JO/IN GANCOIGNIti the Clerk of His Iti•yal
Highness's St.ibles,- had visited the' deceased airaost
daily ; he unifortnly expressed his conviction that
he was poisoned ; he had intimated to him his suss
picions.of the oilier referred to, but that, swpicion
was simply grounded on an accusation, unauthenti.
cated, that the snspe&ed party had purloined some
property of his-:Royal Highness's, which was nnikr
the particular care of the d:Teased ho 4111,ineiL the
person referred to by the deceased was.of a respett_
able and rp.)ral charatter.

Mr. Mo o taco and Mrs. .51'1 etßi both be.
longing to Carleton HOO4O, had severally viAted
the deceased; they frequently heard him say he was
poisoned; but he did not express any suspicion On
that shbjeet, as applicable to any person whatever.
The Cottotrait remarked to the jury, after the ,
testimony of. Gentlemen of the Faculty, eminent in
in evidence, reuniceNsiT"ti emnbined with the circtunstances
must be inf4rcd the subje6 of this
inquiry died from the eifeds of poisori. it remained,
therefore,. merely to be. considered by the jurors
from what source that poison was administered, It
was avestion of filet, and'tn be eollecied .from the
evidence before them, On whit:h it was .their pro.
vince to decide.

The Jury returned their yerdin—lnlfialMunici•
against *tome person or persons nni6own.

. Natural Curiasity.--Eight years entice' a peat.
tree. was planted in the parish of Tintagel, in Corn_
wall, which blossomed three times the saute }'e'at,
and bore fruit twice; and it has continued to do so
for seven,years in succession. Last'year, being the
eighlh,,iioce it was planted, .it .has blossothed and
borne buit."th tee tithes. The.first.bearing weighed
from Li. to t 6 ontices c..ch tar; the next some-
what'stilalle;ri' and ihz.. last Itearinglof whiCh a part
is,noW•on,the"tree) is, of a comuinn size:
,Satlutday ie'nnight w,ts pr,,dueetel in Axlitidge
market, a 'Steer of the native bree4:only one year
and eleven, inonths old, which ..weighed upwards of
5 cwt. and had 561b;0r rniigh fat ; bred and fatted
by Mr. Mills, of the King's Arms, Cross, on hay
and grass only, and which, fir general .flittiess and
fineness of Inca!, was never exceeded.
At the Freston Chiisttnas Show last week, a nuns_
her of dealers of the first revettability
Good horses were greatly sought after, .and hr rtgllt
high though but few were it niarkt.-
dinar), horses l ail hut a yet j'. bad- sale'.
The ienpolicy of poeriqt;llatioa. was never niore
discetnable'than. at picselii. Although deiar.bought
experience has repeatedly evinced its
many , now perecive, frui i .'Pickett in the ensuing
Lottery beir4 git(ddy ptret7, arid the
worai certarlity that the whole of its Numbers n
be diapokP'of bekre. the Drawing on
the 28th irimint, that 114 havo.now not a nnonent.
to
,spare to possess themw!yes r,i•.l an nee in the.
richest Schenie ever (del ed to l üb:ic ention.
I he Ticletts are, nearly zdi .01,1 ; but the rollie
may 'dercm I on being sithllic,i with Tickets and
Shares" at theC.liffeient, Lottery Oflices whilst cher,:
are any -Ticket; left.-- I he price will ad ea::ce. daily.
Married, at Edinburgh, on the Rib inst. Capt.
jolt NITONE, el the Cohistrearn Guards, to I\?{as
CHARLoTTE GoitooN, yotii4;est daughter of
CHARLEs GonpoN,
Died, at rockingion, S.,merl,etshire, in the gosh
year of his age, JOHN DoN NE, Elq.

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WWI '1 REASON.,

having been received at MatlborowAh
f 'H,C, S ttotiay,' that coining was cat ried
ry great or B,t in a cottage occupied by
Beard, platsterer, in,a lane near St, jolc,',,
l:,,nedields, • a warrant was isoted
a . bove (Alice. On Sunday Lovett, Foy,
JcA ??trick, 'Officers, were sent to execute
• „Aril., Wno sectired Thomas Board and his wife,
:try yesterday underwent a long examinatitn
;ie Officers repaired to a field adklining: the Pri.
110Tleir's CWage ; soon after dusk on Sunday evening
Foy advanced, and on listening at the door,. be heard
the P.isoner at work with scouring-paper. He gave
a signal to the other Officers, who surrounded the
house, and, aided by Patrick, Foy lo .ked in at a
high window, where he imperfetily saw what he
had heard. They attempted to force an'entrance •
at the doOr, when the wife called out to her husbonsi
to guard himself with his pistols. He did so,, and
flew to the window, where he swore that it would
be death for any one to- stir an inch towards she
house. Lovett gave the Prisoner to understand, that
if he fired his own life must instao.tly be forfeited,
and theittote needless to 11::Di“. Foy inune_
diately oi the i.kindow, and cocked his pis.
tot, also giving loin a few seconds to deliberate whe.
titer he would re.ign or be .shot. The Prisoner, after
a pause, fired his pi.tiol in the air, ,and began to
throw the coining implements out of the window ;
but the Officers-soon lorced an entrance, and secured
all. it :striated that the Prisoner, at the time of the
alarm, was finishing a quantity of sixpences, large
and plain, resembling the Irish coin, nearly one bun.
dred, of which were std on his person, and in the
rontn. There were also a quantity of crooked six.
peceS, exceed inglY welt finished; must of which were
stamped with a letter, or an bale punched in them: va.
fleas offensive weapons were found in the house, viz.
cutlasses, pikes, nistols,tec. by which the Prisoner
kept
;persons in detail who were acquainted with his
way of life.—The nigit,trate rematked, that the
faCts were aid na attilbt could-he, conceived
but that ,the prisoner had m,Bnufkiattred the whole
of them, as he was eve.; working on therii when
eurpti?trll. lle thanght it necessary that the Pri.
saner should be remanded, in order that otter fads
may he proved against him by witnesses who gsere
absent. He was accordingly remanded for a second
cornirotion,—The Woman was' discharged, there
bring no evidence against her.

Puur.tc-Ors.tcf,llATTorr.GAßDErr.--bot Sawn.
day three pers,tis were apprehende.t try White.ftivs,
vt the instance of several respectable wholesaletlea.
leas in London, charged with defrauding theM and
the public at large, by obtaining goods under false
names, ender the firm of a mercantile house ; their
books and letters of correspondence were secured,
so as to lead to a belief that the principals of the
gang will be apprehended. They were committed
for reexamination.
• Yesterday man and a woman appeared at the
Office to exhibit atticles of the peace against Jo.
Oathatt Trutt, for a v iolent assault ;. who, in his
turn, charged the 11139 an stuyiLion of having com.
mitred tt 1•Iony, tome trontlip. since, for which zool.
reward was offered fur the tipp.thension of any of
the party. The man was, under suspicious circum.
stances,. committed to the House of Collation, to
be brought forward on a future day.
•
James Pike was inclined, -at the lite Sessions for
Devo., for assaulting JimesLL'Ail;, Esq. and his
wife, and setting a Mastiff dog on them, as they
were pissing the Tnribridde Tornpike4ate, in June
last. The case having been argued by Connsel on
both sides, the Defendant was found GuWty ; and
the Court (having severely animadverted on the
atrociotmcondott of Pike, and the daring testimony
of Elizabeth Collins, his witness) sentenced Pike
to pay a fine of 201. and to be imprisoned•tintil the
fine was paid.

,
Friday an inquest was taken at Milford, !Imp.
shire, by Mr. Baldwin, 'on the body of M.G.,ld,
one of the six men belongin3; to the Rase gevenne
Cutter, who were upset ItOilt near Hurdle ,
on ;wit inst. Vertlid—ifecilelltal Death.,
Oo Sunday sennight, about eight o'clock in the
tveoing
,p,s(t of the ruins of Mr. 011ivant's,fAory,
in Bury ...st vett, Salford, which was burnt the preced.
ling week, tell down, and totally destroyed two ad.
joining houses, having crashed them to the, ground,
utetii,!r with all the houseb,,ld furniture ofthe unfor.
tunate occupiers, %aware poor people, and (4- course
moth distressed by the accident. Fortunately no
rives were lo.t, the inhabitar.ra haying-beenprevi.
ously apprised of the danger, though not in tame to
sale their itftC:b.
Aet Dtft'Xigaii murder has been committed in. the
parish of Craighish, Argyllshire, upon Allan
M4Lean, late of Barrackan, in that parish, who was
stabbed with a knife: in the left, side, in. his own
house, of which he immediately expired; John
Campbell, of Ardlaroch„ in the same parish, charg.
ed with the perpetration of this murder, has made
his cseape ror the present, but stria search is mak.
ins after liat„
• . A melaocholy accident happened at Greenock' on
.IVllnday semnight :—As a slonp.riggvtl gab.art was
going-down the River, a squall overtook in.t.r at the
133r0f Quick, and drove the boom ,Isith,ttieh
lence against nor of the hands, named Duncan
that he 'fell tivetboartt. 'lhe accident
took place so near the shore that it W 45 ObSefi.
Ca) arta ii boat itniaediately put off; but, alas Z too
late, is iq sopiritred the man Milt instantaneously.
11-13 bOdy has been found a little below the
Powder Magazine.
On 1111( evening of, Wednesday I,e'nnight a fire
broke not on the premises of ---- Skyline, Big.
near N,,rher‘h, which destroyed the-whole Of the
out.buildingi, together with several head of cattle,
end other property, to a 'considerable am ount.—
The'dwelling.hotote was fort,unately detached, or it
would have shared the same late. The corflagra.
ti,o was occasioned by die earelesmos of a set.
vaot, who had a lighted candle its one of tic out.
hcsuNes.