The Sun.
London, England, 1805-10-02 00:00:00

COI?ONEIrs uEsr.

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seven o'clock yesterday evening an Tnquest.
Was taken betbre It. SIIMJON, Esq. one of the Co-
fonersfor the City of Loodon, and a respedable
*Jury, touching the ci.tuse of death of Mr% D.Lti3h,
Wine-mem:limit, of George-yard, Lombard-street,
whose Melancholy death we stated in our Paper of
yesterday.
he Inqeest' was assembled at the George and
Tavern, and the Jury being sworn, pro-
ceeded to the 'house of the deceased, immediately
tidjacent„ to vitem the body, On their 'return to
their Jury room, the first witness examined was
.Mr.. Atkinson,' an Apothecary; ' wi) usually at-
tended Mr. Ktishis fittuily. Lk stated, that he
was cidled to the deceased Won eduescley morn-
. in .
morn-
. consequence of the Mil:try he had sustained
on the preceding night. He found the deeeased
with both eyes qUite black, in consequence of a
blew on his nose.; he had a slight contusion on the
:right side fereheltd, with a trivial i tie of
..the skin twin the temple., close to the bruise ;
complained also old pain on his right side, which,
on examihation, exhibited a black Spot on the
lower part, over the,seeend rib : the deceased said
Ire felt the _sensation of a fradure of the rib, but
there was none. He stated; that he was coming
home the night before from the Star Tavern, in
Nag'shead-cOnrt, Gracechurch7street, to his own
honk', through the courts that: lead. into Ni,
choles-lane ; . that he had stopped ter a neces-
sary occasion and that some: per son from be
hind knocked hint down ; but he could, give no
deScription of the person. There was no sYmPtnal
of inflammation from the blows on hiS head, nor
did he complain; of any pain in that put. His
,eyes were: ack Merely from extravasation of blood
in the cellular - Membrane : the only painful sense.;
tion of which the deceased complained, was a pain
on his side, from: the contusion received there. Mr.
AtkinSon ordered hint Soine proper medicines ; he
',vas not centirk%l to hiS bed, nor even to his room,
ate his meals as usual, appeared in :bodily health
.the whole of: Wednesday and Thursday, but on
'the latter night,Mr. Atkinson was sent ter at a late
hour, and in a great htury, to the patient, and
timed him 'then rather light-headed, ant talking con-
st uttly and incoherently. was scarcely possible to
india lam to go to bed ; he had at very bad night;
grew worse next day, talked incessantly, could nut
be induced to keep his room, and became so unruly
towards Friday night, that recourse was had to
the aid of 'a. Keeper from Mr. *Warburton's pri-
vate mad-house at HeXton; and a strait-waistcoat was
put on him. DuringeSeturday and Sunday he was
quite ungovernable ey ordinary ; men,
even with the strait-waistcoat, Were scarcely able to
restrain him. Abdut .1 1 ort, Sunday night he Was
seized with convulsions, anddied about 12. Mr.. A-
tkinson then stated, that he had ekarni ned the bodywith
Mr. Norris ; they found the bead, abbut the eyes,
&relit:ad, anAnderneath, seperrielally,black, from
external violence, end, on opening it, observed the
interior blood-vessels'remarkably turgid, and between
the convolutions of thcbrain much coagulated lymph,
the extravasation of which they considered as the
cause of the deliritim whieh had occasioned his death;
but did not consider these symptoms, proceeding from
elaternal injury the flocelefed received ; there Was no
fradure, and nothing. that could evince any con-
Ansion o bruise that broke even' the skin, the
au x-. of blood having proceeded from .t he nose.
Oh opening the alxiontrin, they foUnd the liver much
enlarged, hard, and of a very dark colour, quite in
a state indicative of a disease from hard drinking,
which Mr..Atkinstm belieVed to be the cause of the
inflaintriationancl eensequent The• de-
ceased, whom Mr. .Atkinson had known for four-
. teen years, was much addided to drinking during the
last tem. , Mr. Atkinsoti was still inure convinccd'ot
this, beentuc, albou.lt !ii),:teell months ago, the deci.as-
ed, in consequence of a tit of excessive drinking,
was seized with an epileptic tit ; and, after lie had
recovered, he xeniained : forty-eight hours in a state
of '.high delirintn, and under indispensible coercion.
Upon the whole, Mr. Atkinson was dilly convinced
the intlanimation and delirium of Which the patient
died Was the result of habitual and excessivo intoxica-
tion.'

The written report, sighed by :fir. No-Rats, the
Surgeon, who had been oblig-ed to leave town, ex-
al:Ay agreed with the testitnony of Mr. Aticinson.
Four other witntsses were cy..aroined namely,
Mr.f .Folker, the keeper of tie. St,,lr tiVertr; Capt.
Reynolds, of Prospe&-pkteth, Beriunndsey ; Mr. An-•
ey„ Mt.ttillinall, and another Gentle:pan who were
present at the Star on Tuesday night, Mllen the de-
ceased etinte there Intuit 11Ito:6eztted, saw
hint go away, and return in' about flint. minutes,
bleeding and dirty; a 3 before described ; but not it
titde cat f,heir ich tended to prove that the, de-,
ceinied talii any sort of altar{ .it with any of the:
persong present---4ior eras there the slig-htest trace
of proof how the dt cLased. exalt, by the. ill-treat-
menv:lie had.received, further than l i own declara-
tion,'a3 already Stated.
'The Coroner, aoh much per pictiitJ ";r rempitt•i-
'hated all the material testimony to :the Jury, who
found their VerdiEt-7-Ditv! a natai.4 dt,atli„ front an
billanmation of Ma Lain:" • •

The. following almost tinpreccth divastrous
circumAanco ocenried to a labouring f »sitily at liar-.
ley:, in the Flundred of Chrisulittreh, if unp3itire
the. recital of which in have a s.,dutary effe,t at this
se;;Bon Of the year, when LtinfiliVool333 are in such
general acts : Martin Dean, ,a young mart about
yeara of 'age, having !left 54.g0e mnihroorus at. a
neighboor'i liOnse, liked them so much thfit 110 de-
termined to obtain 801ne for hitmiell, AccordingiF,
on f'3at urday pro(:nred a quantity of toad-
go:ds, roiStaking them for noishroools, and carried
them Wane, wlien his mother, being also ignorant
of taro mistake, ilrepaN,.d them tier dinner, and,
her hitsbancl departed on business to iiincr-
wood. In the m(!an titne Martin Dean dressed trte
soppo,cd mushrooms, and with his brkithers and sis
ters (five in number) partook of them ; but their
pi)ifionoui quality was sniau C.Kperienced,, for the whole
tit' the' family were, in a short time, m the greatest
agonies , and death the next (II put a period to the
existence of Stephen, one of them, imd the day fol-
lowing to that of Kinnah, and Martin, the sad cause
of this most unfortunate accident. 'rho otlaz'three
children continue dangerously ill, but it is hoped