The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-26 00:00:00

COIiONEWS I A QUEST.

An ing,,est was held on Tuesday at the White
Horse pnbhc house, in Gilbert-street, Clare-market,
by 0 is TlitiNy GHIA., _Esq. Coroner tor Westminster,
',lt h.," -0(ely 6'l Janes CoWling,va deserter flour] the
?t.
-.. NVi:st Lou,c.ii, • Mihtia, in which he was a private,
who cut his throat with a razor at 'the abOve house
on. Monday atieryoon. . The - first witness called
was William Hefflet, a corporal of the 4th ci4ll-.
pan v, in the West- • London Militia. ' The witness'
stated, that, .osi Monday lasi, he went into the
Crooked Billet public-house, in Portsmouth-Street,
in-the parish of St—Giles ; he saw the deceased,
'sitting there, and recdguized hirn.as a deserter be-
. longing to the 2,1 .company of
,the West London
Militia, from which he had deserted , five or six
lin.zi:liS ago. The witness addressed the deceased,
and said, " Cowling, how da ydt. do ? how do you
dor
.said the deceased, in answer, calling the wit--.
• nessby his name, and laid du, u a pipe of tobacco
which he was smoking at the time, and went out of
the house The witness tolioweo ann, and called to
him,- in Sheffield-street, Clare-market ; the deceased
, . .
stopped, and the wiliness said, " where are you a-
going ?" the deceased answered, " to a friend round
the corner." Toe witness told him he must.not
part with him, as he was a deserter, from the regi-
ment ; and he 'dust= follow him. The deceased an-
swere, , that his friend had settled alt that business;
and that he was AO pay the aOl. to-morrow (meaning
r!sterday) ior his dischiirge. The witness asked

hits where his friend lived I'The deceased answ,red,
" Round the corner of Gilbert-street ;" and be went
into a tin shop. 'The witness following. him into
the passage, the deceased said, " I have made a tnis-
taket IS nOt the right house ;" and they came
out together ; the deceased went into the adjoining
hoUse, the White Horse, in Gilbert-street. Toe
laid Bold Or his apron, before he got into
the vlss-ige he did not use any force,- but said—
You must net conic in here." The deeased-
said, he must go in to see Fhis friend, and Went to
the foot of the -stairs, the witness keeping close to
him, but finding the staircase dark, the witness
said you most not go up, and a second time laid
hold of his apron„ and perceived the deceased fum-
ble in his pocket, at ,I,vlfich he, the witness, was
very. much terrified, thinking he was going to dO
something to hitu : the deceased got about five
stairs up, the witness still holding Kittle part of. his
garment, at aims' length, and obseried him take
surd tilling Gut of his pocket, and put his - hand
towards throat, and immediately afterwards the
witness heard something kltng ou iliestairs, tike
ties ps of
_water; out iMagining it was blood, he
`(the Wi,nes.) became alame 1, card coll,d out for
assistance._ The first , person that earue was the
maid-st:ivant belonging to the house. witness
said to Ler, " for;God's sake Call some assistance,
for Lan. ,!ini.l th.. t.tatt sort.e mischief to
'himself." The .yoong WoLna:fh:-Ing ten tide:f did not
say at.y thing. 'The witness eau to the tap-rootn,
and desired the, landlord and another 11,511 to come.
They went and brought the deceased down ii.tolhe
passage. He had a razor, covert d with blood, and •
a'case, which he held tight in his right hand.
he was brougi,t down, be p2initrd to Corporal
Hurl t, and said," that is-the wan." He was taken
to St. Clement's Workhouse.

wilham Wilion, the landlord; said, that
about three or four &clock, on M..nday afternoon
fast, as he was• in his bar, he perCeived two Men
g ling along his passage towatus the stairs; he did
n ,t see their faces ; the witness toid hisirtraid-str-
,
vont to go pnd'inquire what they wanted ; the two
men had got about five steps up the s!aircase ; the
servant returned into tire bar, and drn;ped down
in a fit. The witness wept .up five steps of the
slain; he found the deceased leaning .against the
bannisters, and brought him down in his arms in-
to ,the passage : he perceived some blood issue
from his mouth, and some coming through his neck-
handkerchief. He also perceived a razor, covered
, with - Hood, and a razor-case in his righ4 hand,;
while a chair wip procured, the deceased, pointing
to Corporal Hufflet, said, " That is the nian, that
is, the man," aud spoke no more, but threw the ra-
zor and case away. Ibe witness
.sent round the
neighbourhood for surgiCal assistance, and even went
himself, bat could not procure any. He then as-
sisted to take the man to St. Clement's workhouse,
where surgi..al assistance w s imrnedi tely procured,
but the wind-pipe was divided, as well as the jugu-
lar rein, and he expired about ten minutes atter be
„hid b..en taken into the workhouse; the Jury.re-
turned a verdict of self murder, by cutting his thruLl
with a l'azor..'

Th.- dceased had desegted sevcral times from
the regiment, and lately wa.., employed as a porter
to an 'upholsterer in Moor-fields; he was about
forty -five yea's of ace, and has left a wife and Iwo
children, ,

The Officers appoint( d to execute the disguiting
ceretor oy,ot drivtoga stake through the dead body
of Jams Cowhog, very properly delayed the busi-
ness until -twelve o'clock last rnght, when the de-
Ceased was buried in the,cross roads at the end of
Blackwore-street, next Clare-warket. •

. A melancholy accident happned.On Monday, at
Temple, th.! .seat of Own Williams, Esq.—Two
Gentlemen and t-Wo Ladies ventured, for the
autra,.ement; into •a boat, upon the mill stream, at a
short distance from the %viers. .They Vere at first
so ins,nsibry drawn towards the sluic&ts, that they
did not perceive their danger. As. thly approached
them, the ioree of,the curlent baffled their, etforts
to dire6t the boat,..and they were carris.d upon them.
One of the Gentlemen leaded out on the batl with
the chain in Lis hand, and encleav,nred to pull the
boat from/thr .opening of the sluice.. but .t"t;e torrent
wawirreiistiole, and his strength tie til d nothing ;
the boat tiled, instantaneous!4 sunk,, and way: da.h-
ed to pieces. In a few -seconds t•o of the p
appParei at some distance sUliggling in the streatir,_
which soon threw them on a shoal in the mido-le of
the ri% er. , The third, a young Lady, sister of Mrs.
Whams, rose no more. The Lady and Gentle-
, man so proidentialiy .aved have not suq.-1.11-cl any
material injury, except in their tell share of that
deep atllithon. which.- overwhelms the u..hole fa-
.
wily. •

BRISTOL dqsizEs.

THE KING I'. allt HENRY Lirmcoi.t.

The following report of this trial is copied frOrri
The Bristol Mercury. •
Wednesday Sir Henry Lippincott, Bart. was
'tried, on the prosecution of Mary Milford, spinster,
(aged about seveutern),for the violation.of her. pen,
soh ; to Which he pleaded Kot
The case, on the part of the prosecutrix, was
°Repeal by Mr.- SMITH ; and the evi-ence detailed
by the prosecutrix. appeared, in a vary modest and
prepossessing manner, to develope a sr eae of much
depravity. She stated that on Sunday, the 31st of
DecelOber last, in, company with another youit
woman of the name of Mary Jones, as they were
going to the Cathedral, between 3 and-4 o'clock, as
she supposed to evening prayers, Mary Jones stop-
ped to speak to two gentlemen--one in regimentals,
the other not ; that Mair Jones shortly ovettoak
the prosecutrix, and instead of leading her into the
Catheiral, conducted her through the arch leading.
into the Cloisters ; that they a ent up, a -flight of
stairs, and Mary Jones led her into a room whiCh
had a sofa in it, and that, until she arrived in th it
room, sire was not aware but that she was going
into the Cathedial ; that immediately .afterwards
the same two gentlemen Jones had previously spo-
ken to "(who proved to be Sir Henry Lippincott and
a Caption Gregory), entered -the room ; ftat Cap-
tain Gregcry proposed to Mary Jones to go with
him to his room to dress; that Captain Gregory
and Maty Jones len•her ; that Sir Henry then. be-
gan to take bberves with her person ; that she
resisted him ; that he °tiered her money, two gui-
neas, which she refused ; that he the(' proceeded to
acts of violence; tht he held both her hands be-
hind her b) the wrists ; that after using every effort
to extricate herself, after making evely noise in her
power, cra ing out tied steeping with her feet, she
at last fainted away, and he accomplis'ied his pur-
pose. That immediately on quitting the room, she
informed Mary Jones of what had passed, who
censured her for not communicating it wi ilst in
the room ; that the 'same evening she informed a
Mrs. Sarah Janes (a witneSa, who could not, we un-
derstand, be found) and on the following day made
a similar communication to Mrs. Roberts, (the
keeper of a huckster's shop on the Back, and with
whom she lodged), also to Sophia Jones, the sister
of Mary Jones ; .that on the Monday se'Onight,.
after the Niolatipn, the prosecutrix, accompanied
by Sophia Jones, met Sir Henry in College-green,
in the evening ; that he laid hold of her, and in-
quired now she did that she replied by upbraiding
him with having used her ill enough already.—
That Sir Henry thereupon flung her into the arms
of a lusty gentleman passing by, and said, " here,
take this lass—l was intimate with her yesterday,
se'nnight.--The above ti&s were delivered by' the
yealog- worn with much seeming relodance, and
alter touch entreaty by the Learned Recorder and
her Coons 1. She then Underwent a long crosssex-
arninatioa, in which she positively denied that she
bad ever said she had not fainted away, or that she.
had ever talked of money as a remuneration for the
.it jury she had sustained .
Mr. Short, surgeon, bore testimony to an ap-
pearance of her person having been violated, which
lie observed, on examinat ion, ten days afterw*ards.
On the part of Sir Henry, it was sworn by Mary
Jones, that- the room into which she 113,1 retired with
Captain Gregory was not more than eight feet dis-
tance from the drawing-room ; that
,she heard no
noise ; that she returned to the drawitig-room iii
about ten minutes, and found Mary- Miltbrd lying
on (ter bonnet ; that she did not appear discomposed
or agitated, and that she sat upon Captain Gregory's
knee. 'fins witness pro%ed the door to have been
locked on the ptosecutrix, and that the carpet and
sofa were rumpled.
Here Mr. Thompsos; attempted to cross-examine
the witness, as to the prosecutrix having informed
her of the violence complained
.of, after she quitted
the apartment ; but the Learned Recorder consi-
dered it unnecessary, inasmuch as that part of the evi-
deoce stood onimpeached ; and'neit tier Mrs. Roberts
nor Sophia Jones were examined as to this point,
' SQphia Jones-deposed, :that Mary Milford had
told liar, in-a suos,quent conversation,' that Sit
Henry had not violated her person ; and that she
had, at Milford's request, applied to Sir Henry for
pecuniary recompence, She, however, Admitted,
that she bad not made such statement at the Coun-
cil-house, when she gave her information, and con-
firmed the prosecuirix's evidence of having met Sir
Henry on the Monday, when he flung her- into the
arms of a rlusty gentleman, with this addition, that
the prosecUtrix called Sir Henry a villain, and that
he used
.the expression above'stated.
Captain Gregory Was minutely examined as to
any noise' in the house, and the apps arance of Mary
Milford on his return to the room. He swore that_
.he heard no poise, and that, on his return, the pro-
secutrix appeared not discomposed. On being cross-
examined, he admitted that lie found the door lock-
ed upon Mary Milford, and that when he entered
the room, Sir Henry said, "she would not consent
.to. his being connected with her, nor receive money,
although he had offered it."

Mrs. Roberts (who was originally before the Ma-
gistrates, a. witness in support of the prOSeeUtlOn)-
deposed,, that in .several contersaiions with her oil,
the subjeet, Mary Miltbrd hall' used frequent equi-
vocations ; aid that she had said, she believed she
had not fainted ; that she, Mrs. Robert's, had fe-
rpent,ly cautioned her; against keeping company
with Mary Jones, who was " a woman given to the
town ;" and that during a visit that she (Milford
had raid in Lond,,n, in August, she had heard
that t, e. Duke of Gordon would be obliged to pay
3000 . for such p. h. 5 nesss, whether the atteinpt
could be proved or,uot. It shou:d -)e observed that
h:ipr.:vionsly denied all this, in her cross-
examination.

Mr. Allard, Mr. Lowe, and Mr.- Taylor,, (of
"VS,Totton'-under-Edgc), were cubed upon to .rebui the
eviderc,: of Mr. Short.

Alter an irnprtial charge from the Recorder,
The Jr-ii cow.ultei ab,,ut a minute, ankreturn-
.ed a verdict of—Noi
The R..ei!rcier,.iii Conou•iion, observed, that whilst
he rtj,,iced in the acquittal of the prisoner, be could
clot c. , sides .mny sari of censure due to' those who
,couduct c d the pros:Tution.