The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-27 00:00:00

IIVQVOTS.

An inquisition-was tak6n.yesterday at, the Ligl3t
Horseman, in Orange-street, Letester-quale,
1-101toNY (SELL, Esq. the Coroner for Mid-
dlrs, x, on the body of Andrew Tranter, footman
to the Prince of Wales, who .shot himself at Carlton.
•

Tne first witness was John Barr,, a foreigner, and
who ;at. d himself to be, the PrinCe's Hussar.. He
stated, that he had beep upall night in the lyotman's
room', and a little betUre. six o'clock. on Tuesday
morning, Tianter, who,lia(t-been about eight years in.
the Piince's service, came in reeling against the
chairs, and aSkd' witness the hour; and on being
told, he opened the shutters of the hail, and asked
n he could get the Prince's cloaths to be
:brililsed, and said something. about a review that
morning. Witness informed Tranter it WaS LOU soon
to get the cloaths,• as the Prince's page in waiting
was, not up, and they then both went out at the
it'll door. Witness went to the porter's lodge, and
. on
,ios return, in anout ten minutes, he saw Tranter
sitting in one corner of the footmiin's room welter-
if. his blood ; he inquired the cause of it, but the
tormer did not answer him. • Witness gave an. alarm
- to a cook, and to Seijeant Wright, a night porter, at
he lodge; neiore Wright and witness,. got ~ back to
the deceased, the'', heard. the report of a pistol, and
on entering the room;Tranter had moved, and was
sitting in 'the 'middle of the room—his coat,
waistcoat, and cravat weie off,
.and his shirt was on
fire, ,s was also his waistcoat, which was lying on
an adjoini .3. table, and there w,ls a pistol smoking
under the cravat. Wright asked Tranter what was
the matter, and 'who had hurt him c The former
replied that he had done it himself, and he should
be off in a few' minutes. He left a paper in the
window, addressed to his sister, which witness, un7
de-rstood to'be a sort of will, which stated that she
should have what. property he possessed, after giving
401. to a .natural child of Ms. Tranter lived about
twenty minutes atter the second .shot was fired.
Witneis conceived him. to be a good fellow-servant,
end never heard of his having been. given to gaining,
or any other propensity ,that might rack the mind'.
The deceased, to usethe_witness's own words, was
rather snuh, (meaning tipsy) when 'he came in,
but he was accustomed
.at ~ttmes" to get inebriated.
Witness never conceived him •to be in any -way de-
ranged,
nor could he account :ur;the cause of sui-
cide.

3. Wright corroborated, the testimony of the- prer
ceding withess, ai.d he described the words of the
deceased, on being inerivgatL.,cl,: thus : I have
done'the deed, and I iiave )but a few minutes,to
live," Witness saw the det>eased come in at twelve,
and go out again at one-On Tuesday mottling. He
talked with him sometime, and he appeared rather
wild, and went off
,in a great hurry._ Be wasac-
custotned to drink very freely, and witness could
not account in any otlier way for his rash conduct.
TWo pistols were found in the room.

Mr. Phillips, d Surgeon, proved that the deceased
had met his death by two Pistol,balls, one of which
bad entered the breast, and he conceived must have
lodged in theback-bone, and the other .which had
entered on the left side, must, have lodged in the
lungs. •
To prove a kind of derangement three witnesses
appeared, one of whom, the Prince's chairman, G.
Bowring, stated, that the deceased had been much
-altered for some time, aid that about ten days ago
he exy.),,,:seil, much lipsiety at hong obliged to drop
the acquaintatict-fof,a Jewess, in the city, in conse-
quence of religion prove tin th,ir UlllOll. Witness,
11/110 was in great .contiociice jocosely
asked him how, tie would get rid of three other
aid he expressed gnat Two or three
ens ago the deceased ibtormed th.z.witnesi that he
had quarrelied with, himself,. and lie had agreed to
in ke it up with liinbelt by a treat of a glass of ale,
and after -running on %v.:114, he observed, that the
best nay to rid himself of his troubles wohld be to
clap a pistol to hi 4 head, as one thing and, another
distracted him.

'Mr. Rymer, and another witness &so spol:e of
a material alteoi ion in the deceased for three months
past!._ _

The Coroner left it entirely to the Jury. to. weigh
the evidence,.and they returned a ,yerdia.ofLunacy.
The deceased-wab 40 years of age.,
Another inquest was held by the same:Coroner,
at the Coffeehouse, in Villiers-street, Mel-
phi, on the body of a young woman,- eighteen-years
of age, named Leah Wall, who was drowned by
falling into a water-tub, at a house, No. 18, Duke-
strce+, Adelphi, • •
The Jury were-i long time in examining the pre.-
miseei. The tub into r: hick she 'tell was sunk in
the back yard, and the deceased was in the habit
of filing it. On Tuesday, night she was missed for
above'half an hour. Ott search being made, she
was discoVered it) the tub, which is only three feet
deep... Her head was downwards. On being taken
our, there was not any sign of . life. Medical -as-
sistance was immediately procured, but' it was too
late. The Jury returned a verdid of Accidental
Death. - •

Another Inquest sat on the body of Mr. Pevet;
whom we stated yesterday to hare cut his throat,
and it turned out that the loss of an 'only daughter
had caused -a despondency in him which led to
suicide. Verdict—Lunacy.

On Wednesday evening, about 9 o'clock, a party._
of young fellows, having been in a boat to see the
-Vauxhall wherry rowed tor, went on shore at Bank-
side, to a public hou.se, where, after thinking freely,
they re-entered. their boat, to go to. Pepper Alley
Stairs; near London Bridge :_a quarrel took place
between two of the Party, who went to blows,
When they both fell merboard, by ,Nshiclt one 'of,
them, of the name of Soames, about 20 years of
age, was drowned ; the other was, with much dif-
ficulty, saved .tram sharing the like fate, by another .
boat coming up at the time.

As Mr. fticimrd Young, 'of Killingholm, in Lin-
culn.hire, firmer,. was returning from plough, on
Friday evening fast, the two horses he was leading
were stricken by lightnitz; and-killed on the spot:
hitnitil and his little boy, who had hold of his hand;
/44 not recdse.the,led'st injury.