The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-15 00:00:00

CUSTOM h LIST.

Entered Inwards,Septemterl4.—Mary,Padley,lTamhurgh;
Sons of Commerce, Fox, Antwerp; Huppett, Sundshumi
Hernosand ; Neptune, Aurens, Wismer ; Betsey, Cargil,s-
Petcrsburgh ; Jane and Alice, Jones, Petersburg') ; Elinor,
Bell, Memel; Neptune, Roxby, Cadiz; Juno, Blackburn,
Petersburgh ; Aurora, Scott, Archangel ; Blucher, Sehertan,
Swerinemude; Mercury, Allen, South Seas.

Entered Outwards, September 14.—William Manning,
Smith, St. Kitt's ; Mary Ann, Findley, Cape of Good Hope;
William and Alfred, Drysdale, Antigua; Albion, Wart, Isle of
France; Ranger, Henry, Pernambuco; Fux, Fox, Ostend.
Cleared Outwards, September 14.—Colonel :Alen, Lew-
led, Cape de Verd Islands; May, Harvey, St. Thomas ; Nelly,
Gibb, Hamburgb ; Fly, Sawyer, Calais; Mackaiel, Hill,
Hannah; Elinor, Williams, Duhlin.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

DEATH OF MR. S. SIMMONS THE COMEDIAN.

An Inquisition was taken yesterday at the Barley
Mow public-house, Mount-street, before A. GaLL,
E,q. on the body of this unfortunate Gentleman,
who met his death on Saturday night last.
Mr. Simmons, as most of our readers know,
was is most respectable member of the Theatre.
Royal, Covent-garden, to which company he be-
longed many years, and his talent had ever met
with unqualified approbation. The evidence, as
to the calamitous event, was as follows
William Chapman, servant to Mr. Thomas
Vardon, No. 5, Hanover-square, stated, that the
wife of the deceased had some business to do in
the house, and at eight o'clock he called for her,
but she not being ready, be waited until she was
enabled to accompany him. At ten o'clock Wit-
ness let the deceased and his wife out by the area
gate, and having ascended two or three steps its
his way out, he suddenly fell backwards, the wife
close behind him. Witness picked him up, and
carried him within the house, but he died instant.
ly. He did not appear to have been drinking,
and be fell directly backwards. Dr. Hyatn was
sent tor, but be used no means to restore anima-
tion, satisfied that such could be of no purpose,
as the deceased vas past recovery.

Tile Beadle here stated, in the absence of the
Surgeon, that the deceased had died of apoplexy,
as the Doctor informed him.

Margaret Simmons, wife of the deceased, who
gave her evidence under affliction which excited
much sympathy in the Court, stated she bad been
married to him 16 years, and he had called upon,
her, to escort her home, as stated by the last wit.
ness. She, related the manner in which the de•
ceased tell backwards from the steps, and whether
be was in a fit or not she could not tell. She held
her arm out to save him, and having uttered this
expression, she manifested the most agonized grief.
When recovered she said, " I thought I heard him
breathe."

To some questions put by the Jury to the bea•
die, respecting the state of the appearance of the
deceased, who was in a putrid states he said his
face on Sunday evening resembled that of a black
man.

Another witness, of the highest respectability,
stated it to be the opinion of Dr. HeavisideA
that the deceased had died of apoplexy.
Mr. Ege:•ton, the performer, stated, that the
deceased was weak in the eyes ; that Mr. Jere-
miah Taylor, the oculist, had told him, (the de-4
ceased) that unless be was bled often, he would,
:lie by apoplexy.
Mi. Robinson, and several friends of the de•
ceased, were present.

The Jury returned a verdict—" Died by th 4
Visitation of God in a Fit of Apoplexy."

DISTRESSING EVENT.

Yesterday an Inquest was hem(' before CHARLBS
JBI%IMETT, Esq. at the Swan, Battersea, on the
body of John. Thomas Dagnell, Esq. father of
eleven children,, the two youngest twin boys, hut
a•few days old, when it appeared in evidence that
the deceased on Friday last got to the top of one
of his walnut trees, in his garden at Battersea, at.
height of 30 feet, to pick some walnuts, which
he occasionally threw down to his children, who
were under it ; when one of the little ones cried
out, " Father pray do not fall." No sooner had
the child spoken the words, than the branch
upon which. the deceased stood broke down, and
he was precipitated to the bottom, in the pro-
gress of which his head struck some lattice work,
and broke it down. His head was dreadfully
fractured, and helingered until Saturday, when he
expired in excruciating agony. Verdict--•" Ac-
cidental Deatir."