The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-25 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

DREADFUL AND EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.

On Thursday evening at seven o'clock, an Inquisition was
taken at the Swan-with-two-necks tavern, in Lad-lane, Cheap-
side, before Mr. §IIELTON, the Coroner, and a very'reSpect-
able Jury, on view of the body of Mr. William .James, an
opulent manufacturer at Coventry; who came to his,death under
the following shocking and singular circumstances the
Jury being empanelled and sworn, they proceeded to view the
remains of the unfortunate gentleman, which lay in the bed-
room of the tavern ; it was a truly shocking sight, the 'head and
face were dreadfully burnt, the hair of the former was all ofr,
and the hands and arms, as also the chest,. were shockingly
scarified. on the head was a deep wound of frightful appear-
ance. The following evidence was given, touching the melan-
choly affair :
'William James, the porter at the inn, examined.—On Mon-
day night last, between 1I and 12 o'clock, I heard the watch-
man give an alarm of fire. I went out, and perceived smoke
issuing from one of the bed-room windows on the third floor,
in the front of the house. I ran up stairs immediately, but
could not find the room. I consequently descended, and went
up another staircase, and ob•ierved smoke coming from the top
and buttons of a door. I endeavoured to gain adi»ittance, by
calling out to the person inside' but could not, the door being
fastened inside. However, I burst it open, and found the de-
ceased gentleman lying on the floor, close to the entrance. lie
was groaning piteously. He was partly dressed, having his
shirt, drawers, and stockings on. The shirt and drawers were
burning when I entered ; also the bed-curtains, sheets, and
pillow-cases. I first extinguished the whole, and then carried
the deceased out of the mon; to the stair-case, where there
were several persons who helped me .a carry him down stairs,
and a medical man was sent for.. . _

Coroner—Tray was the decased n guest at the inn ?
Witness—Yes: he came about ten days ago.
Juror—Was the deceased intoxicated when he went to bed
that night ?
Witness —No, he was not. I saw him about eleven o'clock,
and served him a glass of gin and water ; he was perfectly
sober then.

Juror—Did the chambermaid see him to his bedroom ?
%Vitness—l think not ; he was in the habit of lighting his
candle himself.

Juror—To your knowledge was the deceased in the habit of
reading books or newspapers in bed, after he retired to his
chamber

Wtn ess— I cannot positively say. I found some old news.
papers in his room after the catastrophe. •
Coroner—Did you tind any book or newspaper in the bed ?
Witness—No, 1 did not; all the bedclothes were partly
destroyed. •
Juror—Where were the remains of the • sheets and pillow-
cases when you entered the room ?
Witness—Part of -them were entwined round the .deceased's
body near the door. • '
Coroner—How can you account for the cut in the deceased's
head ?

Witness—l cannot to a certainty say how that occurred;
but I should think it was done in falling ; or it might hare
been done by my bursting the dour open, not being aware
the deceased was so near it. • He had evidently struggled vio-
lently to get out, as the brass, handle of the door was torn
from its place.
Francis Knowles was next examined—He is a waiter at the
inn. The deceased, when he came home on Monday night,
was perfectly sober ; he was in the habit of taking news-
papers to bed with him. Witness was in bed when the alarm
was given, but did not see the deceased till after the surgeon's.
arrival.

Air. Honeyman was next examine& Ile is astir- I
geon, and was sent for to attend the deceased onlionday.night
found him at this house ; he was perfectly insensible,
and dreadfully burnt about the head, face, and arms. I imme-
diately applied proper remedies, both external and internal.—
There was a deep cut on the left side of the head, but this was
of no material consequence. I remained with him about an
hour, and about Live o'clock the folloiving morning 1 saw him ;
be was then sensible, and told me he was reading a newspaper
in bed and fell asleep ; that he did not remember.any more till
he found himself surrounded by a number of people, and in
great torture. He said, he suffered dreadful pain in the stomach
and throat, and could baldly breathe. I exerted my utmost
skill to preserve life, which, however, proved unavailing, -us
the deceased after an immensity of -suffering expired on It ed.
nestle), morning about 6 o'clock. Since death .1 have opened
the•body, and found the inside of the throat shockingly burnt.
The injuriesihe deceased received internally destroyed the vital
powers, which caused death by suffixation, as he inhaled a great
quantity of flame and smoke.
• The Jury -lamented, the sad catastrophe, and returned et ver-
dict of Accidental Death, by being burned internally, which
caused suffocation."

The deceased-has left a wife and six children to bewail
hii untiinely end.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.

Thursday
,night a jury, compOsed of the respectable_ inhabi-
tants of St. Olave's parish, sat at the Woolpack pubWhouse,
Parish-streei, Tooley7street, before 'P. Sue I.T 0 Ni; 'Esq., the
coroner, for London and Southwark, to inquire Into the cause
of the death of a young woman named Caroline Omen, a dress-
maker, lately 'residentat Pimlico..

The Jury; being swOrn, proceeded to exercise the first -part
of their duty, that of viewing the body. On their rettan to the
jury-room,
Captain Wm. Hocken, of the Commerce schooner, Fal-
Mouth, was examined, and deposed, that on Sunday Afternoon
last, between a and 4 o'clock, the deceased, to whom he had
delivered a letter a few days previous; from her aunt, at Fal-
mouth, offering her an asylum, in the melancholy event of the
death of both her father end mother, lately in London, came
to nattle-bridge.stairs with intention of going
,on board his
vesnl, to acquaint him with her determination, on the subject ;
she had passed over tile two first vessels, and to affirrd her the
means of reaching, his own, the covering of the main gangway
was placed to the next vessel for her to walk on ; when at the
moment she pressed her font upoli it, a sudden squall came on,
that occasioned the vessel to lurch, and the board falling from
under her, she tell into the river and was drowned, in despite
of every effort to save her. The body was picked up on Wed-
neitlay.
The sister of the deeettied was in attendance in an adjoining
room, but the Jury not considering it necessary to call her in,
her feelings were spared on the heart-rending occasion.
The Coroner with much feeling dwelt upon the deplotable
! circumstance, concluding with the observation to the Jury that
no doubt existed of the manner in which the ill .fated girl met
her death, and it was for thein to say whether it was not alto.
gether the result of accident ; when an immediate verdict was
; returned to that effect.

Flac.—Yesterday morning, between one and
two o'clock, the inhlthitams of Golden-lane
were throWn into alarm by the discovery of
flames bursting from the lower part of the house
of Mr. Gat:GORY, a baker, situated itt about the
centre of the west side of Golden•lane, which
appeared to threaten destruCtion to the nume-
rous tenements joining the back of his premises,
and which extend to Goswell-street. 11. appeals
that Mr. Gregory was in the country, and left the
care of his business to his son, who is a journey-
man with his Bather, he unfortunately fell
asleep in the bakehouse, leaving a light, which is
supposed to have been knocked down by a dog
kept there, and thenco communicated to a parcel
of shavings. Tie was awakened by the excessive
heat, and had scarcely time to escape. Mrs.
Gregory, a remarkably lusty woman, who slept
with an infant in the second floor, had great dif-
ficulty in.:making a descent by a ladder placed
for her. Two engines had by this time arrived,
which were soon followed by others ; these as-
sisted by u tolerable supply of water, made the,
most active exertions to stop the progress of the
devouring 'element, but not before the next house
—a green grocer's, was discovered to be in flumes,
About 5 o'clock the front wall of Mr. Gregory's
house fellinto Golden-lane, but fortunately with--
out doing personal injury to any of the numerous
individuals then collected. The damage was
confined to the prejnises mentioned • of which
Mr. Gregory's were insured to the full amount,
it is. said ; but his less fortunate neighbours, a
young couple just commencing business, Ve to
lament the loss of all they posse,ted.

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons it3 Ex.8i11510001.2d....4 3 5 pm.
34 per Cent.
Ditto Red.
4 per Cent. New 951 Ditto Advertised
Bank Long Ann. ... .. shut Bank for Acct. "—
India Stock..,.t • *hut India for ACM
Ditto Bonds, 4P. c. 1 3 pm. I Corn!. for Acct.
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South Sea Stock

PRICES OF FOREIGN F
Austrian Bils, 5 per cent.— --
Brazilian lids 55
Buenos Ayres litiv
Milian lids, ct.... 50
Gilonibian

Do. 11124 .
Danish, 3 per col.
(heel( 13els

Do. 11326 ..,
Outttimal4
Ilegican 11(1s. 5 p. c.
Do. 1925, 6 p. c.

MPS AT. ONE O'CLOCK
Neapolitan, 1824
Peruvian Bonds 3l
Portuguese 13onds
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Ditto New
Russian, New, sp. c.......78} 8
Spanish 1821, 5 p. c.
_-- 1823
French Rts, 5 p. c. 97 991 • 25c.
Exchange ... 251 50c.
Exchange ... —c.

PUKES OF SIIAUES AT ONE O'CLOCK•
Per Share:

An.
glo.3Texican Mining Company
Anglo-Chilian Mining Company
General Mining Association
Pasco Peruvian Mining Company
TialPuxatma' bliniilg Company
New United Mexican Mining Company
Great Westminster Dairy Company li

Bank Stock 233
Gov. Deb. 3A per eent. —9041
4 percent. New do...A*ll°p.
Gov. Stork, 31 per ct. 8141111
ConsoN 3 percent.
Royal Canal Stock '
Grand Canal Stock ... —
Ditto Loan,- 4 per cent. ...
Ditto Ditto, ti per cent.-- --

PRICE O} IRISH STOCKS, MARCH 21.
Alining C0nipany.....,...i Pm.
St. Patrick Insurance —
National ditto
Hibernian Bank .7 dis.
Fish Shares
J'atrintic ditto l4 di(.
Royal Irish Alining I Pm.
New Brighton 6; -
Hibernian Uns Company --

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THE SUN.

LONDON,
SATURDAY BrEArl NG, MARCH 25, 182(;.

Dispatchesare said to here been roceived, last
night, from the Duke of \\ Er at St.

Petersburg h.

New York and Philadelphia Papers to the
1701 ult., were received this morning at the
North unit South American Subscription Roam.
A Philadelphia Journal o► the 12th, gives an
extract of a letter from New Orleans which
appears to have suffered more severely than any
part of the United_ States. From the failure
of the " first Commercial Houses," money is
said to be " out of the question." British
Commerce, by its. innumerable ramifications,
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extends to every part of the Globe, and there
can be little doubt, that the disastrous reetilts
of immoderate speculation in this Country, will
be felt even in the Indian and China markets
FROM RIO JANElRO.—Captain Davis, arrived at Boston
from Rio, states that the Don Pedro, Conunotlore Jewett, was
the only vessel of war there on the Ifith Mc. She was from
Ceara, at which place she took on board 769 pas.9engers, who
left on account of the famine, out of which 160* died on the
passage, and 200 were well. NVlion Captain D- left, the
Government were pressing every man into their service they
could find.

Letters from the South represent that the disease called the
Influenza prevails in the interior of South Carolina to an
alarming extent, and the deaths ark very numerous.
We have seen a letter from an intelligent Gentleman of New
Orleans, received by the late arrival at Philadelphia, which
confirms the previous cases of the failures in that city, and re-
present the alrairs of the merchants of that place in a very
ruin• us condition. The latter states, " Our first commercial
houses have nearly all failed, and as it respects money, It is out
of the question; the Bunks refuse to discount the best paper in
the place, confining themselves almost entirely m such paper
as is connected with their own safety."—(Philadelphia Gazette.
Feb. 12.) .

Letters and newspapers from the South represent that the
disease called Influenza prevails in the interior of South Caro•
line to an alarming extent, the deaths and very numerous, and
the working hands of whole plantations are disabled by lt.
( New York Nat. Advocate, ,P,cl. 17.) ,
POPULATION OF LOWER CANADA.--Returns from the,
districts give Lower Canada a population of 420,679 60%114'
The aggregate number of emigrants arrived at the port of Que-
bec in the lost seven years is 68,!44; a third of them, it is
thought, have gone to the United States.

A German Paper received this morning, con-
tains a longarticle from Rome, respecting a Bull,
which has for some time been the subject of dis•
cussion at that capital. This long expected docu-
ment will, as it is said, be n fulmination from
the POPE, against such Societies, with a view to
extirpate that political heresy, of which the (Ab-
ject is 44 to overthrow the throne and altar—to un-
-44 dermine public tranquillity, and everywhere
" to spread licentiousnes and murder." Periodical
meetings of a large number of
persons—for
ever purpose assembled, will, as it is asserted,
he interdicted in every country •in Europe 44 Eng-
land perhaps excepted." Perhaps, not only Eng-
land, but every country of which the established
faith is Protestant, Will partake of this indulgence
for overwhelming, as may be time power of the Holy
Alliance, they will .not be suspected of so glarini
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