The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-22 00:00:00

FATAL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.

Yesterday an inquisition was taken at Middlesex
Hospital, by T. STIRLING, Esq., Coroner, touching
the death of William Robinson, aged 72, which was
occasioned by a fracture of the small bone and lace-
ration of his left arm, by a wash-hand basin, thrown
at him on the night of the 2d instant, by his son.
The deceased was a shoemaker, residing in the
front room on the first floor at No. 40, Great St.
\ndrew-street, Seven-Dials. His son Daniel, his
wife, and a grand-daughter, all slept in the same
room. On the above mentioned night there were
three or four persons, friends of the deceased,
spending the evening with him, his wife, and grand-
daughter, in his room. A great quantity of gin was
drunk. The deceased became intoxicated, and was
about to retire to bed, about half-past eleven, when
his son Daniel, who had been out all the evening,
came home very drunk.
Elizabeth Cory assisted the son to take off his
clothes, while the deceased's wife performed the
same office for her husband. Cory retired from the
room to her own residence. The son being in
,bed,
and about to change his shirt, could not get one
of the wristbands undone, and tore it off; upon
which the old man, who was also sitting up in bed,
putting on his night-cap, said, " Tear it all to pieces."
The son replied, " I'll tear yours." The old man
immediately said, " Come on—come on," and
jumped out of bed. Blows immediately commenced
between them, when the deceased called out to his
wife to give him the poker, and he would " split
his skull open," and caught up the fire-shovel. The
son, who was near the door, caught hold of the
wash-hand basin, and threw it at the deceased,
which struck him on the arm. The grand-daughter
immediately gave an alarm, and ran out to procure
assistance. John M`Kenzie, a lodger under the de-
ceased, hearing the cry of murder just as he was pre-
paring to go to bed, hastened up stairs, and met the
grand-daughter, Mary Robinson, who told him Dan
was murdering her grandfather. Upon getting into
the deceased's room, saw him and his wife down en
the bed, and the son had his father's head under his
arm, and was in the act of striking him, when
M`Kenzie seized him, and forced him out of the
room. The deceased had the fire-shovel in one
hand, which was bent under his body, the other was
'bleeding. Secured the son, who was drunk and
furious, and procured the attendance of the parish
surgeon, who desired the deceased to be taken to an
hospital. M'Kenzie walked with him to the hos-
pital, and saw him put to bed.
The hou3e surgeon stated that the fracture was of
so serious a nature as to require amputation. The
deceased was told so on the following day, but would
not consent to the operation. He went on as fa-
vourably as. could be expected for about a week,
when symptoms of inflammation took place : the
deceased was urged to have his arm amputated, but
would not consent; the inflammation increased, and
was succeeded by mortification, which terminated in
death.

The Jury, after deliberating about ten minutes,
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Da-
nielnobinson."

The Coroner issued his warrant for his coin-
mvtal to to Newgate, and the witnesses were bound
o
give evidence.
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We are truly concerned to relate, that the
SpecilY, BISHOP, from hence to Jersey, was lost on the Sth
instant, off Cape la Hogue ; the crew was saved., had
a valuable cargo on board, amounting, it is said, to nearly
20,0001.--Hants Telegraph.

A Savings Bank is about to be established at
Bromsgrove, and a liberal subscription has been entered
into by the inhabitants to defray the expellees contingent
on its opening. The Earl of PLYMOUTH, we understand,
has accepted the office of President, and the Rev. Lord As-
TON that of Vice-President,— Warwick Advertivcr,

Mr. CROKER visited Mr. HERRIES yester-
(lay, at his residence in Downing-street.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign and Colonial Offices.
Prince LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador,
and Count .LUDOLF, the Neapolitan Minister, transacted
business with Earl DUDI';EY yesterday, at the 'Foreign
Office, Downing-street.
The Earl and Countess GREY and family
purposed leaving Howick on Thursday morning for the
south, btit were prevented setting out by the severity of tFe
weather.—Netecastle Chronicle.

FASHIONABLE ARRIvALs.—The Duke of
Marlborough, in Henrietta-street, Cavendish- square ; Mr.
Robert Knight, M.P. in Grosvenor-square; Marquis and
Marchioness of Salisbury and family, on Saturday, at their
house in Hanover-square; Earl Talbot, in Arlington-
street, from his seat in Staffordshire; Lord and Lady
Holland, at their house in Berkeley-square, from Holland
House; Mr. awl Mrs. Manley, in Gloucester-place, from
Bath ; Major Thornton, in Regent-street, from Gibraltar ;
Mrs. and Miss Snow, in Park-street, from Bath ; Major
Thynne, in Park-street, from St. Albans ; Mrs. and Miss
Briscoe, in Albemarle-street, from Paris; Count de Vaude,
in Brook-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Munday, in Glouceiter-
place, from Brighton ; Major Hill, in Pall-mall, from
Paris ; Captain and Mrs. Deacon, in Burlington-street,
from Bath ; Lord and Lady Brudenell, in Great Stanhope-
' street, from Dublin; Lord and Lady Elliot, in Dover-
street, from Paris; the Countess St. Germains, in Park-
crescent, from Brighton; Hudson Gurney, Esq. M.P.
and family, at their house in St. James's-square, from
their seat, Keswick Hall, near Norwich ; 'Sir Henry and
Lady Fitzherbert and family, at their house in Henrietta-
street, Cavendish-square, from their scat, Tessington,
Derbyshire; Hon. Colonel Anson, in Curzon-street, from
Mr. Coke's seat, in Norfolk; Captain and Mrs. Murray,
at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Wm.
Mills, Esq. at ditto, from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Pro-
theroe, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from their
seat in Herts; Admiral Sir Jan.es Saumarez, Bart. at the
Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, from
Jersey ; ' J. Lambert, Esq. ALP. at ditto, from Ireland;
Sir Wm. Cumming -Gordon, Bart. at the London Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Brighton; Sir Charles Lamb, Lady
Montgomery, Lord Eglinton and family, at ditto, front their
seat in Sussex ; Mrs. Erskine, at ditto, from her seat,
Bromley Lodge

DEPARTURES.-Captain and Mrs.M4Nagliten,
and Miss Emma Roberts, for Calcutta; Mr. and Abs.
Daring and family, for their seat in •Herts ; Thomas Yard,
Esq. from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Brighton ;
C. Cooke, Esq. from Jordan's hotel, St. James's-street,
for his seat in Hants ; Mr. and Mrs. Balgury, from the
Burlington Hotel, for Derby.
RUMOURS.—(From a Correspondent.)—The
Duke of DErowsulßE did not see the KING till last Satur-
day afternoon (although it has been stated to the contrary),
when it is understood his Grace tendered his resignation as
Lord Chamberlain, which, after a long conversation with
his MAJESTY, was accepted. It was his Grace's intention
to have gone to the KING at the Royal Lodge, Windsor
Park, immediately on his arrival in London. On his
Grace's arrival at Barnet, he engaged an express for A man
to gallop to. Devonshire House in Piccadilly, to prevent his
Grace's letters being put into the general pest. Though
the express arrived twenty minutes before the Duke, he
was too late to stop the letters. A messenger was then
sent off to the general post-office in Lombard-street, where,
on producing the Duke of DEVONSHIRE'S letter to stop'his
letters, they were produced. The letter in the greatest
request was from the Marquis of CONYNGIIAM, the Lord
Steward of his Majesty's Household, written by command
of the KING to his Grace. .The import of this letter pre-
vented his Grace from proceeding to the Royal Lodge im-
mediately, as was the intention of the Noble Duke.—
Morning Herald.

FROM ANOTHER.)-The Duke of DORSET
and the, Marquis of WELLESLEY are each spoken of as
likely to succeed the Duke of DEvonstituE in the office of
Lord Chamberlain of the Household. Mr. Wm. PEEL, it
is said, replaces Mr. SPRING RICE as Under Secretary in
the Home Department.--/bid.
The Marquis of ANGLESEA was educated at
Westminster School, and we understand that it is the in-
tention of several Irish Gentlemen who were educated at
that Seminary, to invite him to a dinner in the course of
the season, in Dublin.—Dublin Evening Post.
BRIGHTON, JAN. 20.—The consecration of
our beautiful new Church, dedicated to St. PETER, by the
Bishop of the Diocese, is fixed for Friday next, Arrange-
ments are made for a Musical Festival within the walls of
the edifice on the preceding day, under very extensive pa-
tronage, and the demand for tickets is already very great.
At the Atataces Ball, at the Old Ship Rooms, on Wednes-
day evening, a new set of quadrilles, by KIRCHNER, de-
dicated, by permission, to the Ladies Patronesses, were in
high request, and were played throughout the night.
GIBBON AND Sir T. A--E.---About the time
that every knight-errant was inclined to break a spear
on the Gibbonian shield, Sir T. A—E was advised to enter
the lists, and he informed me that he should engage in a
controversy with Gsaaos. " With Gummi., Sir ! about
what—his fifteenth and sixteenth chapters ?" "No, about
his pump." At that time he was next door neighbour to
Mr. GIBBON, in Bentinck-street, and there was a pump
common to both premises, and some wits had furnished
Sir THOMAS with a learned dissertation on the subject.
When he first wrote to GIBBON, the great historian sent
for a workman, but be could find nothing that was amiss
with the pump ; but the first letter not obtaining an an-
swer, Sir THOMAS folloWed it up with a learned " bis-
-I.sertation on the Origin of Pumps," and favoured me with
the sight of some copy, which he said, "If he could obtain
no full answer he should publish, and he was assured that
it would sell." I told him, " I did not doubt it ;" but,
being intimate with his lady's family, I earnestly entreated
him to desist. He, however, pursued the persecution, till '
GIBBON became much annoyed. Some time after I asked
Sir TnostAs what became of his controversy. "Oh !"
says he, " GIBBON never dared to write an answer ; he
gave in, and only at last sent a message to desire that I
would take the pump altogether, and do what I pleased
with it.'' The Essay on the Pump was not ill drawn up
either as to elegant style or historical information, whoever
had been the writer of it.

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rtblißeantoettfiv:ei:aeTi it not So much has been said relative to the Genoa
improvements
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ingenious plans had emanation from this Dock-yard, we
should be inclined to drop the subject altogether. The
Genoa was the first ship supplied with lower masts on Sir
1 llonEux SErrmos's principle of 4S pieces. The 103!""
. mast was struck by eighteen large shot many of whi'ch,
went quite through, and its standing fora mow'
Finch a terrible fire establishes, beyond a doubt, its supe-
riority
employed to
in action over masts made on the old
dvautage. We
respect to stowage it has another great a
o.n her lower. gun-deck,
plan,. tatindolent
remember when one of the old forty-fours
tike out to the Mediterranean, a made hrvel-rnlst for the
Cu/sdonia, on the old plan, which, from its enormous size,
was with great difficulty stowed
hut a few days since a transport sailed from this port, for
the same station, with two lower-masts for line-of-battle
ships, on Sir ROZERT SErrasus s principle, all stowed
securely between her docks. The muler in which the
Genoa's wounded mast was fished roes great credit to the
carpenter. From the immense quantity of plastering it
has been an object cf much curtosity......Deu onport Teleu.

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS,

The Duke of WELLINGTON returned to town
en Sunday evening from the Royal Lodge, in Windsor-park ;
his Grace entertained a select party to dinner at his resi-
dence, Apsley-house, Piccadilly. The members of the
new Ministry formed by his Grace assembled at the Noble
Duke's house at ten o'clock at night, and continued in de-
liberation for about two hours. The Duke attended yes-
terday at his (Alice in the Horse Guards, and transacted
official business with Lord F. SOXERSET, his military
secretary.
The Right lion. STURGES BOURNE arrived
in town yesterday afternoon from his scat in Hampshire.—
After transacting business at the Office of the Woods and
Forests, Whitehall-place, the Right Hon. Gentleman pro-
ceeded to the Colonial Office, and had an interview with
Mr. HusrassoN.
Earl TALBOT visited Viscount GODERICH
yesterday, at his residence in Downing-street. His Lord-
ship also paid a visit to Mr. PEEL, at his residence in
Privy- gardens.
Earl DUDLEY) Mr. PEEL, Mr. HUSKISSON,
Viscount MELVILLE, and Mr. ARBUTHNOT, visited the
Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday.
Viscount MELVILLE and Mr. C. GRANT
visited Mr, HUSKISSON yesterday, at the Office of the Se-
cretary of State for the Colonial Department, in Downing..
street.