The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-15 00:00:00

CORONER': INQUE

Ye/Imlay an Inquisition was held at the Swan
Inn, at Stratford, ili Essex, Am die hotly of Joseph
Biggs, who died on Wednesday morning.
After the usual preliminaries of opening the husi.
tress was gone through, evidence was t. ailed, which
went to the following .rints On the 3oth of Au.
gust last the Stratford Volunteers were out at rxer.
rise, and on their return home past the SNan Inn,
at Stratford, the deceased thought proper to com-
mence a coatlimah like bkto up on Corporal Smith,
in the course of which he made use of words fitter
for a c •achman to utter than a soldier under awns to
bear with.

The Corporal, who was described as a man who,
though in bode a lion, in peace was a lamb, found
himself so irritated, that he. ran at the opponent with
his musket, and struck him so hard with the butt
as to traduce his forehead, and produce such a con.
cussi-n on the brain as to cause his death, which
Came on 13 days after, he having lived until Wed.
nesday morning last, when the mortification having
attained its height, he expired without a gro,m,
The Jury, under all the circumstances of the case,
found a verdict of—Manslatishter against Smith.
An Inquest was also held on. Wednesday last, at
South End, on the body of Mr. Inbetson, late Un.
der Secretary to, the Admiralty, who, to misc.
9heoce of violent agitation, occasioned by an alter.
cation befween him and Lieut. Norm in, C. Inman.
der of the Signal Post at that place, fell down in a
Ht of apoplexy, from which he never recovere4l,
After a deliberation of near five hours, thtiing
which it &MAW Mr. ihbetson had been previously
afilitted with two apuoleftic fits, the Jury returned
a vertlia.....Died by the visitation of God.
On Thursday night the 'Coroner's bluest was
held at the Swan Public. House, Salisbury Court,
Flemstreet, on the body of Jane Bird, who hung
herself in her chambers the same morning. It ap.
/leafed the deceased was fifty.twe years of age, and
lived with her sister at No. ia, Bell's-buildings,
Salisbury Court. She had long been employed as
forewoman to a reapedableThholstery Warehouse,
in St. Paul's Church. Yard, and bore an excellent
character. On the Thursday naming the sister of
the deceased went out to purchase meat for dinner
in Fleet Market; she was gone about twenty
notes, and on her return, missyg her sister, she
went up stairs, where she beheld the deceased quite
dead, hanging to the post of a Tent bedstead. She
had tied a shawl round her neck, which being made
fast, the unfortunate wornan strangled herself ; her
knees rested on the bed, and the struggle to deprive
herself of existence must have been violent, as the
bed-post was not more than four feet and a half
from the floor. Assistance being procured, every
means were used by a professional Gentleman to re.
cover her, but to,no purpose. The deceased fur se.
veral days preceding had shewn strong symptoms of
mental derangement ;. and the Jury were induced, on
the clearest view of the eitcUtustance, to pronounce
a re rdiCt' of—Lunacy.

The following article is extraCti:d from an Arne.

rican Paper :
It is satisfaelorily established, that, previous and
subsequent to the acceptance of the challenge, given
by Mr. BUICA to General 1-lamt ',Tom, Mr. Burt
was in the daily habit of shooting at a mark. On
the 4.th July (after the challenge was accepted) he
dined with the Cincinnati Sudety, in company with
General lima t t.Tost. There is every reason to be.

licvc, that, before he left home in the forenoon of
that dry, he pradised shooting at a mark in his
garden. Every Member of the Society remarked,
when he entered, the austerity of his countenance,
which was preserved during the day. General HA.
MILTON was cheerful, and favoured the Society
with several songs.
Nothing can more clearly manifest the desperate
purpose of Mr. Botta than this daily pralice, espe.
eially when we consider how sensible he must have
been. that General HAMILTON was dragged into
the interview.

Mr. BURL, however, was not only istent upon
calculations of certainty as to the life of his anta.
gonist, but also as to the preservation of his own.
An extraa from a London Paper, in regard to
the resistibility of silk, appeared in 71a Abetting
Chronicle, an American Paper, about ten days pre.
vious to the fatal interview. We knaw that Mr.
BURR practised shooting at a mark; but we are not
sure that The Morning Chronicle quotation was
" tat" into his hands, and that he tried the exile.
rimen; of shouting at silk, in order to ascertain
how he could' best preserve himself from the ball of
his illustrious viaim, in case he fired. rafts, how.
ever, warrant CUlliedikfei very unfavourable to Mr.
BURR.

After the challenge was accepted, Mr. TN RR
WWI; a note to bis tailor, Mr. FeANc is DAVIS,
requesting that he , would make him a silk coat
(having, already the under garments of silk) by
Monday- evening, and adding, that unless it was
then htought home it would be of maw, as on
,Trsarfioj,lisorm;v, 6y Jour o'clock, coat to leave
fawn/ Special dire horns were given to make the
coar unusually large. It was made according to
order, and delivered (9 Mr. BUlllt, on, Monday
evening. la this coat, which WAS black, he killed
General HA MI LTO N.

The Public will reason. upon these (As for them.
elves,, and draw. .their. own infcrenccr :—I cannot,
however, conclude without expressing the satisfac.
••
tion I derive from the prospea that the perpetrator
of this deed (without a name, will in wine sort be
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