The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-15 00:00:00

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tonoNEes INQUEST.—Last night at 7 o'clsck
an Inquisition was held before THOMAS HlGcs
Esq. Deputy Coroner for Westminster and the
Duchy of Lancaster,in the Statnping-room in his
Majesty's Stamp Office, Somerset House,,on the
body of Leonard Huntingdon, Esq. Second Clerk
in the Lottery Office, and Deputy Receiver'
General. The Jury consisted of respectable in.
habitants of the Duchy of Lancaster, who being
sworn, took a view of the deceased: The body
lay by the side of his desk in the Lottery Office,
and a quantity of blood had issued from two deep
wounds in his throat ; an office knife lay by his
side ; on the opposite side of the office was a stool,
on which it appeared the deceased sat when he
inflicted the wounds ; a quantity of blood lay in a
heap by the side of the stool, and from thence to
the place where he fell was a track of gore.-
Mr. Langley, Surgeon, Newcastle-street, Strand,
deposed that he had,examined the deceased, and
found three wounds in his throat : one had di-
vided the carotid arteries, and was of a descrip:.
tion to produce death. The wound on the right
side was the deepest; it might have been cut
with the right hand, but seemed to have been in-
flicted by a man left-liana.] (a spectator said
that the deceased was not left-handed), as the
incision commenced on the right side of the.
throat, and concluded under the chino
.1 have
no doubt but the deceased did the act himself.
The knife produced is the instrthilent mast likely
used by the dectittsed to ctillict the wounds. A
number of witnesses were examined, who found
the deceased in the Lottery Office in the situa-
tion described by the Surgeon on Sunday morn-
ing. A rope was found in the deceased's pocket.
Several Clerks in the same Office with the de-
ceased, proved that lately his• mind had been
greatly disordered, and that he drank a quart- .
tity of brandy on Sunday morning before he com-
mitted the act. There was very little defi-
ciency, if any, in his accounts. Verdict—
" Lunacy."

Sunday last being the birth-day ,of his Ma-
jesty the King of PORTUGAL, a Grand II
Mass was celebrated in the Chapel of the Em-
bassy, in South-street, Grosvenor-square, in the
presence of his Excellency the Ambassador and
most of the Portuguese and English Catholic
Nobility.
The Royal Clarence Lodge of Freemasons, at
Frome, which has been for a long time closed, is
re-opened, in consequence of the exertions of
Colonel TYNTE, Provincial Grand Master of the
County of Somerset.

The remains of the late Marchioness of WO
CESTER will be removed from Apsley House on
Wednesday next, for interment in the family
vault of the Duke of BEAUFORT, at Badminton,
Gloucestershire.

Nine persons have been thrown into prison by
the British Government at Corfu, for petitioning
his MAJESTY to take into consideration the man-
ner in which they are at present governed—.
one of them has since escaped, and is coming to
England.

Mr. TROTTER, it seems, is about to resign. the
Chairmanship of the Surrey Quarter Sessions.
A powerful corn-mill is about to be erected M Dorchester
gaol, which is to be worked by the prisoners condemned to hard
labou r.

CORPORATION OF DUBLIN.--The Committee
appointed to prepare an Address to his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK, for his Royal
Highness's undaunted defence of the Protestant
Ascendancy in Church and State, and which
passed the late Quarter Assembly unanimously,
on the motion of Captain Fitzsimons, seconded
by Mr. John Pym, will meet on Monday next,
at twelve o'clock precisely, at the Assembly
house, William-street, for the purpose of draw-
' •
ling up the same in appropriate terms of affec-
tionate respect and loyalty. The- Lord Mayor,
with his accustomed assiduity and decision, lost
not a moment in issuing summonses for the above
purpose.—(Hibernian Journal.)
THEATRICAL FaAcAs.—Yesterday, Mr. GLOS-
sop, the Proprietor of the Coburgh Theatre, was
brought to Bow-street Office, on a warrant, and
underwent a private examination before RlcuAnD
BIRNIE, Esq., charged with assaulting Mr. WIN..
STON, of Drury-lane Theatre. The assult com-
plained of was, we understand, a horse-whipping,
which Mr. GLOSSOP gave Mr. WINSTON, arising
out of a theatrical dispute. Mr. GLOSSOP was
ordered to find bail.