The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-28 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Saturday, at three o'clock, J. W. Unwin, the
district Coroner, and a respectable Jury, assembled
at the Marquis Cornwallis public-house, Curtain-
road, Shoreditch, to inquire into the circumstances
attendant on the death of Mr. Henry Featherstone,
late a. member of the Society of Friends, and a neat
relative of a respectable family of the same name.
When the Jury were empannelled, they proceeded
to view the body, which presented external injuries
of a very equivocal natpre. It lay in a shell at his
lodgings in Union-place, and the face and frame ex-
hibited marks of severe personal injury. The chest
and loins were bruised and discoloured; and On the
latter there was a deep incised wound. On their
return to the inquest room, the following was the
evidence submitted for their consideration.

Mrs. Mary Clarke examined.--I am the wife of
John Clarke, a cooper, and reside at No. 1, Union-
place, Curtain-road. The deceased lodged with us
about four months, and expired on Thursday morning.
I did not know of any previous complaint under
which he laboured, with the exception of his being
an habitual drunkard. He did not leave the house
since Monday evening ; nor can I tell the particulars
of his death. He was about 57 years of age.
Anne Croucher said, I reside next door to where
the deceased lodged. On Wednesday morning
was called 'on by a neighbour to visit him. I did
so, and went up stairs, and saw him in bed; his face
appeared much inflamed, and I asked him if he had
burnt it; he replied that he had; and I next asked
him if he would take a'little tea or gruel ? he said
he would, and that he would prefer the latter, as he
had taken nothing since the foregoing Monday. I
accordingly made some gruel for him, which I took
to him, together with some spermaceti oil to anoint
his face with. I called again in the course of the
evening, when I found the last witness and her
husband with the deceased. They were then giv-
ing him some tent wine, and he appeared to me to
be quite sensible. I called for the last time on him
on Thursday morning, and on my approaching his
bed-side, he stretched out his hand, and said, "he
had been cruelly used." He shortly afterwards ex-
pired, while leaning on my arm.
Juror.—Did you hear that the deceased had had a
fall ? Witness—Yes, Sir, I heard he fell from the
first landing down stairs, and was taken up by Mr.
Clarke. _ _

A Juror here observed that no part of Mrs.
Clarke's testimony tended to give any explanation
of this fall. In consequence of which, she-teas re-
called and examined.

Juror.—Have you any knowledge of the deceased
falling down stairs ? Mrs. Clarke.—l saw him force
his feet through the balusters of the first landing,
but I had not power at the time to prevent him ; I
called out to him, and warned him of his danger, but
he did not attend to me, and having forced his body
through, fell on the second lower step.

Mr: John Jones, was assistant to Mr. Parkinson,
a surgeon, of Hoxton-square ; 'he opened the body
of the deceased, and found the stomach and internal
parts in a healthy state; externally, there appeared
several discoloured marks, which seemed produced,
by violence.
Coroner.—Might not those be produced by a
fall ?---Witness.—A fall, such as has been described
would not, I think, have caused so many injuries ;
there are no less than four or five on the face.
The Jury here manifested a strong desire to re-
examine the body, and on their departing for that
purpose, a Quaker gentleman, who had paid an un-
divided attention to the proceedings, addressing the
coroner, said that the deceased was most respectably
connected, but for the last 25 years had become
completely abandoned, and gave himself up to every
kind of dissipation. The trustees of the parish bad
directions from his uncle not to let him want for
any of the necessary comforts of life, or even for any
sum be might require, provided he applied it to a
proper purpose; but such was his passion for low
company and drink, that notwithstanding every in-
dulgence, accompanied- by the most constant and
friendly admonitions, he still remained obdurate and
irreclaimable. On the death of his uncle he left him
150/. per annum for life, which he was to receive at
stated days in the week, lest his extravagance should
precipitate him into absolute, want.
The Jury having again returned, obersiernvceedd tothe
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that,
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The evidence closed here, and by the • desire a

the jury, the room being cleared of strangers, they
returned, after a consultation of nearly an hour, a
verdict of " Accidental death."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

SATURDAY, JAN. 26'.—High water seven p.m.
Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Dolphin, Smithett, from
Dublin, with the mail—Mount Vernon, —.—_, from
Savannah, with cotton—Chatham, Bragg, from New Or-
leans, with cotton—Argo, --, from Limerick, with
sundries—Apthorp, --, from Boston, with ashes—
Jessie, —. from St. John's, N. 8., with timber—
Sarah, ---, from, Newfoundland, with fish—Lion,
Tulloch, from Palermo, -with fruit.
Two brigs off at Ave o'clock.
The Rover, from Pernambuco to Liverpool, put into
Newry, damaged.
Eight bales of cotton were found north of Holyhead Bay
yesterday, marked B.
The Dyson, from Liverpool, at Rio do Janeiro, in
52 days.
The Grampus, Mathewson, from Liverpool, for Charles..
ton,• was spoken, Dec. 27, in lat. 31 14; long. 75.
The Clyde, Scott, from Liverpool, at Bombay, md was
to sail Oct. 10.
The Lochiel, from Liverpool and Jamaica, at
Honduras.
CLEARED OUTWARDS..--The tbeona, Warren, for
Leghorn—Lady Digby and Henry 'Puke, for New Orleans
—Thomas, for Charleston—Wilhelm, fur Genoa—Endy..
tnion, for Bombay—William Wise, for Monte Video—and
Memnon, for Demerara.

Telegraph, Jan. 26.
Jan. 24.—At five p.m. arrived at Holyhead, the Jane,
from Waterford, with grain.
Jan. 25.—Sided'the Solway (steamer) for Watirford.
Wind W.S.W.
The ship Chatham passed Holyhead, homeward bound ;
was boarded by a pilot. • • • • •
• A large • ship passed Holyhead hotheward bound ; lost
her main-top
Wind W., blowing fresh,._ 5 p.m'
risast
T• •
Point Lynas.—wo pilotboats oft:
he Speedy, for Malaga, passed Holyhead
Head,
natotjGnhaornnoiang ff.
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2 6°w:rini—ndlrsWest, blowing very fresh at intervals--at
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nine a. In. still blowing fresh.
The Essex,, for. Savannah,
was off this port
this afternoon.

THE. BEAR.—Saw an embryo bear, most
delicately formed. Bears seldom attack a man, and when
they do seldom bite, but use their paws, and squeeze and
buffet, and very commonly, by a most ingenious manaluvre,
completely scalp their adversary. One does net unfre-
quently meat a Kamschatkan thus scalped. Smorgonia, in
Lithuania, is the great place where bears are taught to
dance. Bears have, nest to apestin many respects more than
apes, a resernblance to man. BLustEsuacH told us a most
amusing story of a show, in which an animal was advert
tised of an unknown species, but which BUFFOtit who
was asserted to have seen it, pronounced to be a Inertna .
nce
to have his breeches taken off. BLUJIENBACJi Went,
if
This was rather believed by the owner, and
from his repug
saw by the aide a heated stove, although it was
hot weather, a strange figure, with a board before
as if for support, in a hussar's dress, with enormous
ruffles, and under pretence of his biting, a great muffle
about his mouth. Burrow immediately perceived that it
was a beat, but in examining his breast found it white
and hairless. In short, it was a shaved bear. Burrow
'whispered ti) the man, frightened him, aad procured in
the evening to see him in his nakedness, he was taken out
of his clothes, not his clothes from him, his cloak having
been nailed to the wall behind him, in order to keep him
upright, and BurroN was astonished to see the likeness in
the habitue totalis to man.--London Medical Gazette,
Jan. 26.