The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-22 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Saturday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the
Ship Tavern, Milbank, on the body of Susannah
Humphries, a young lady who fell out of a boat,.
and was drowned, on Thursday evening, below
Chelsea Reach.—Mr. J. Sutler, stated, that his
mother, the deceased, two others, and. himself, took
a boat for a party of pleasure, and having spent the
afternoon at Battersea, they were coming home,
when the deceased suddenly _fell overboard, and im-
mediately sunk.' A gentleman -of the name of
Sparks, who was of the party, instantly leaped
into the water, but was unable to save her, as she
never lose ; and the body was found the next morn.
ing by some bargemen. This statement was cur.
roborated by other witnesses. The deceased was
a fine young woman, 21 years of age, and was on
a visit from Kent to Mrs. Sutler, a, Lambeth. She
was on the. point of. .marriage . with M:. Sutler,
whose feelings may be better conceived than de-
scribed.

Siturday GeoßoE HODSON, Esq. Coroner for
Middlesex, held an Inquest on the body of Eljzabeth
Woodcock, an unfortunate female, who was burned
to death or Thursday last. The Jury having exa-
mined the body, which exhibited a dreadful spedacle,
the evidence was called in, by whom it appeared
that the-deceased was upwards of fifty, and lodged
in a garret at No. 4., Lacetler.place, Broad.street,
Bloomsbury,--On Thursday afternoon a thick smoke
was-observed to issue from the window of her
.apartment, ;mil she uttered loud screams. An alarm
'being communicated, the master of the house, Mr.
'Taylor, and a neighbour named Wallace, ran up
stairs with water, and, at their entrance into the
room, beheld the deceased writhing in tortures on
the floor, all in flames. 'With difficulty they ex-
tinguished the fire from her clothes, and immedi.
ately sent for a Surgeon, who applied every remedy,
but their endeavours proved ineffectual ; her arm
was nearly consumed, and other pasts of the bcdy
so scorched, that she languisiled in a state of in.
sensibility till Friday morning, when she expired.
It is conjeaured she set her clothes on fire by lift.'
ing off a saucepan, which was found near her with
broth in it, that she had prepared f)r dinner. The
Jury found a verdict of—Accidental Death.

An Inquest was also held on the body of a la.
touring man, found dead on Thursday, in a saw.
pit, at the back of Rossell.square. The deceased
was discovered by several workmen, with his head
resting on a stone. He WAS quite dead at the time,
and no one knew his name, or who he was. There
was no mark of violence on the body, and the Jury
re t tirned--Died by the Pisitation of God.

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Saturday several Justices of the 'Peace for the
County of 'Middlesex met at Guildhall,) Westmin-
ster: The Sessions was finished on' Fiiday, and
?this Meeting was for the purpose of hearing a young
Woman swear her illegitimate child to a man. The
girl, whose name is Pettyford, 'stated 'on oath, that
when 'she first became acquainted with the De-
fendant, she lived servant in a house of ill-lame, in
King-street, Soho ; her fitst and only abode in
London. The father of the child, whose name
Jones, was waiter at -a neighbouring tavern'-; he
waited With beer on the Prosecutrix ; and on the
evening' ol'the •general illutninationfor the.ratifica-
tion of the •Definitive Treaty of Peace, was ad,.
rnittd to her chamber. , The fruit of this amour
wae.3 child, born in August 18133,.; and Jones, it
appeared, had_repeated his visits, She aseqUivo,
cally denied that she had ever before or since sal.
fered any person,to,t4ke like liberties. An attempt
was made by Jones's Counsel to make her confesi,p
familiarity , with others, but this, endeavour was,
frustrated by the decided manner in :which she ad.
hered to her original story. The
.Court sentenced
Jones to pay the expences of the accouehement, and
also to pay 43. 6d, weekly for his love begotten
babe. ,

An old man was killed a few.days since, by fall.
Ling from 4 mow of peas, at Lovington,Dorset ; and
*We young women have been drowned in the tame
Cnuntypone at East Lydford, ;be othernt Coinp.
ton Pauncefoot. An old man
Lwas,also drowned, .a
few,, dap ago,, as Mids,otner.Norton ; and another
4geti man fell down stairs, in the Parish of Cloford,
fraanred his skull, and died.
Mr..B. at; inhabitant of the neighbour-
hood of
.Allenity, Common, was on Tuesday found
drowned in a pool in th.at Parish.

A singular, escape from imminent danger hap,
petted on Wednesday to.J. Crowe, Esq..of Lacken.
ham :—.41/Ir. C. in a one.horse chaise was driving
himself and his Lady through_ Calton, and passing
under a tree which some persons were at that time
felling, it fell upon the horse, and instantaneouly
killed him i,•bttr Mr. and Mrs. C. received not the
b allest injury.. _

An alcercation having arisen, at Doncaster, be.
tween the 7butchers and skinners,. an opposition
took pLce on Si riiiddy Or the shambles, by the lot
troduetion of, a butcher from Sheffield, who sal.
mutton,ut pi. per pound. The populace, exultind
in this Tedutlion, proteded,the new vender, nng
a cannibal „Amongst them, ,to testify his joy, atd
several pounds beef steaks raw t Another,similse
la(ely amused
.the..inhabitants by citing, in
the same maker, a. whole raw shoulder of minion I

To.mortosi 'training, nine o'clock* mast bring
forth Twenty
Thousand P.ancls.—Perhaps Fort
Thoiaiand Pounds. Possibly Sixty . Thousand
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isted. Who will nor, 'thin, renew their Chances,
on such an occasion, as it is‘nOt very probable that
the like opportunity should ever happen in any fu.
ture Lottery ? Besides, the Price of Tickets and
Shares is extremely reasmable, and they may he
had at HORNSBY and Co.'s., No. z 6, Comfit',
warranted undrawn.