The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-19 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUES7S;

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Yesterday, at twelve o'clocka Coroner's Inquest
WA% at thee public-house,• culled the Golden
Chain, within the Tower of. London, on, the. body.
of the Rev. WILL lAM TINDALL, Chaplain, of the
Tower,, who shot himself on 'Sunday last, at his
hoOse.on the Parade in that fortress, as Mentioned,
in. our Paper of yesterda'y.
The unfortunate deceased, for some. time Lust,
bad s!lewn evident symptoms of derangement of
mind': he was much abstracted, and frtquently fell
info the. deepest melancholy ; but latterly these
symptoms increased, to an alarming degree. At one
time, he lanCied some' per&ons had misrepresented
him to the DUKE t:f Yoki; and he wrote a very
incaerent epistle to His Royal' flightless on the

stbjea.
Colonel 'StarrH, Governor. of the 'Tower, was
•examined before the 'Jury. He stated, that on the
morning of. Sundry' last, he was'Waited on by the
deceased, to request have of absence. He com.
rlained Much of an indisposition, which he de_
scribed as a. most unaccountable.sensation, such as
he had never before experienced. He'chiefly corn.
plained of a great depression of spirits, and an un.
quenchable. thirst ; he said he was going into the
Country, which, he was sure, would:be of great
ose to him. The Colonel described- him aso man
of .the• most exemplary piety, amiable Manners, and
uptight principles ; r was an affe-ttionate husband,
and a sincere friend; esteemed and respelled
,by, a
large circle of friend's . and relations; he.' was .not
more beloved for his private charader, than admired
for those elegant acquirements which always grace
the Grorleman. He was about ec, years of age, and
had been five years Chanlain to the Tower. The
Colotiel further said, that a most scandalous and
malicious misrepresentation of the cause of this
`melancholy catastrophe
,had been spread abroad by
souse ill monied persons, who imputed it to miscon.
(Ina on the part of Mrs.. T. ; a more gross false.
hood could not he imagined. She was a woman of
The 'most amiable dhiposition and manner's, and,' in
every respect, of the. most .unimpeached-chatatier.
She and the deceased lived together in the most cur.
dial affeCtion and harmony, nor were there the
slightest grounds for such, vile insinuations, the
time thit; shocking event took place, she was at her
aunt's, about a mile from Exeter, which plate,he
was to.have set. out fir, to join her, on that day.
A femati Servant of the decea'sed stated, that
she had observed her master much agitated on that
morning ; he ouninitted many inconsistencies, and
talked very incoherently ;. he went our, and returned
very frequently in the course of the morning. , 'He
Was tO have set out fni the cLuotry after dinner, and
had his clothes packed up for that purpose ; the
carriage was in waiting, and while the dinner was.
preparing, ,about half pail two, he went up to his
bed ch,rnher; shortly after 'she ,beard the report
of, pistol; hut as no one was in •the -house at the
tithe, but herself, -she waited till come person came
in.. They proc,•eded to the room,. where they found
the b. dying contraded on the floor; the scull,
from the top of the nose to the hack. part 'of the
bead, was entirely blown off, and the fragments of
bone and brains were scattered to ,the extremities .
of the room. When,the jury wen flu examine the
body, the pistol wait discovered on the hearth, ^at
a considerable distance from the body ; it was what
is generally termed a musquetoon, the barrel Made.
of. brass, and shAped like a. blunderbuss ; it had
been heavily charged with slugs, a number of which
were found about the room, and some had pene.
trated the cieling. •
The Jury, without hesitation, brought in a ver.
did of Lunacy.
'On Monday last a Coroner's Inquest was held
in Birrniogharn, upon 'a new-born infant,
_Which
was found dead the preceding day in Sr. Bartho.
lomew's Chapel.yard, wrappaup in a linen cloth.
From the very putrid' state of the body, no judge
snenr could- be formed, of the unfortunate
death; nor was there any evidence, after .a diligent
hearing before the Coroner, to shew :Who was the
unnatural mother. .

'On Monday .last, an Inquest was taken by
5. T. SAMSON, Esq. one _of the Coronets fur. the
County of Sussex, on the body 'of George Pres-
ton, a Priiste in• His !Majesty's Royal ?tarFCorpa,
stationed at Ewliursr,,_ which was found in a wood
a few miles froM that place. It came out in. evi.
Bence; that the deceased, had, some days previous
to his being
.dise.overed, got possession, of a stone
bottle,- containing about five: quits of gin, which
be had carried to the .wood, and, there concealed
rUL Sunday sennight, when he invited two of- his
..Comrades to • accompany- him, to partake of his
prize, and gather nuts. They accepted his invita.
dn; tine retuned to drink sortislAys .the other two
dropped down in a stupor, from which Prestonnever
recovered.

The person who was drowned on Sunday last at'
Putney, was a Mr. Rails, of the hetlSe of PfillitlL'
and RECD, Watling.street, and not Las, as men•
tinned in out Paper of Monday, ,by mistake.
Tln following melancholy event took place on
Friday last Warre, E,q. and family, who
. were engaged in a' tons thrOOgli the Country, took
their departure from Russ on the above day, in tine.
of the pleasure boarsf on an excursion Joon the Wye,
and had proceeded as far as Caldwell, the usual
place of stopping to take some refreshment on the
voyage. After dinner, his two sons expressed a
wish to bathe, which was not lobjefted to by their
father, as they could both swim ; befdre they had
been long in the water, the eldest; a fine youth-
about 17 years, of age, called out !for help, when
one of the boatmen instant ;y plunged in to his as-
sistance, and becoming entangled together, sunk to
the bottom, The waterman, disengaging himself,
'rose to the surface, and with difficulty reached the
shore lin every e(f,irt to save the youth was in.
tffeaual.
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