The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-24 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.

On Saturday evening an inquisition was taken is
the Committee-room of the _Middlesex Hotpital,
before T. STIRLING, Esq. the Coroner, en. view of
the body of Elizabeth Denham, a remarkable tine
young woman, aged only 20, who destroyed bers4ll
by poison, under the following lamentable circum-
stances:—

Mr. John Robinson, of No. 9, South-street, MarlL
chester-square, deposed, that the deceased had oc-
cupied an apartment in his houi,e for the last several
months. At the tame of her death she was em-
ployed as warehousewoman at Messrs. Gillow and
Co.'s, upholsterers and ht,(l-ticl:zcn manufacteters, in
Oxford-street. For the last three or four weeks
‘vitness bad observed a great alteration in the man-
ners and person of the unfortunate girl. From being
of a lively cheerful disposition, she had become very
low-spirited and thoughtful,and excessively negligent.
in her person. On Thursday evening last, on wit-
ness's returning home, he found the deceased in hi=
hack parlour, very ill, and retching from the stornac.h.
His (witness's) wife was attending on her. lie imp
mediately sent for Mr. Carter, a medical gentleman
residing in the street, who promptly attended.
then it was discovered that she had swalloVed'a.,
quantity of arsenic.

Juror—Can you account for the alteration in hec
conduct which you describe ?

Witness—l attributed it to her having formed an
intimacy with a.young man who was formerly in Mr
Gillow's employment, but was discharged for his
profligate. conduct.
Coroner—Did you see the deceased in coitipiny
with this person at any time ?
Witness—Certainly, repeatedly ; the day before
she committed the rash act I saw them walking 'to-
gether in Oxford-street ; I passed them I observ-
ed that the deceased was in tears.

The father of the deceased, a respectable-looking
elderly man, was in court : he appeared deeply af-
flicted : he said that he had not a doubt but that hiF,
unfortunate child had been the victim of a villain,
who, after ruining her, had robbed her of every thing
she had : the miserable father added, that at the
time of his daughter's death, she was utterly desti-
tute, and be had discovered in her trunk a number
of pawnbroker's duplicates of property which she had
lately pledged.
The Jury returned a verdict--" That the de-
ceased poisoned herself in a state of temporary de-
rangement."

•
Seventeen of the Royal line heroes; en-
gaged in the battle of Navarin, left this town on Wednes—
day morning last, after a month's leave of absence to visit
their friends ; it is a remarkable circumstance that they
escaped the dreadful conflict without the slightest injury.
—Most of them were on board the Albion.--Leicester
Journal.

BIRTHS.
On the 22d inst. the lady of H. Cobb Cornwall, Esq.
of Thavies'-Inn, Holborn, of a son.
On the 21st iust. in Montagu-square, the lady of P.
Christie, Esq. of a daughter.
On the 22d inst. in Guilford-street, Russell-square, the
lady of S. H. Woodward, Esq. of a son.
On the 21st inst. the lady of James Hamilton Story,
Esq. of a son.
On the 19th inst. in Regency-square, Bright4n, thelarly
of J. N. Wigney, Esq. of a daughter.
On the 19th inst. at Gayton, near Northampton, the
lady of the Rev..J. E. Gray, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst. at Camberwell, Mrs. James Layton,
jun. of a son.

r of the R.
E. of Castle
' MARRIED. .. -
On the 20th inst. Henry Rodney Elliott, Esq. tif the
Hon. East India Company's Bombay Establishment, to
Mary, daughter of Thomas Simpson, Esq. Consul of his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands at Stockton.
sanOdnertsohen,l
Member for that
county, to
church denominated
Henry Maxwell, awl nie
• ce to the Earl of Carrick and Lord
Farnham. rnst hat
Sarah
den .hs
countyt.oAhl
Johanna,
naoani
~dceeral
eldest daughter
Sanderson,daaltlidghAt
le
On the 23d inst. at Christ Church, Marylebone, by the
as members of the
Rev. Mr. Hutchings, Mr. jam" Kilner, of Castle-street,
and Miss Elizabeth Madgett, of Castle-street; on which
occasion, they,
Free Thinking Christians,
.denying the doctrine of the Tri-
nity, and oluecting to marriage being
nity, . celebrated as a reli-
the usual •
rite, presented protest of their body against
gious
,
the marriage
ceremony a ..; established by law.

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DIED.
22d inst. Elizabeth, second danghter of the late
On the
11 n sorshie, Esq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and sister to
u_thlolpinreseth.entl9l‘tihayionrofinthLaeitcet,intivrn_:quare,
Jane,
-ii,i;ments, and of the most amiable manners, but who,
nfortunately, had long suffered severely in her health.
a lady of great accom-
rnofanh)e,rynaerpshaew:,
daughter of Mr. Llarriss, of Savile-heuse. the youngest
Mary Steel, in her 88th year. ,
ine and brandy-merchant•
On the 22d inst. at his how at Kingsland, Mr. Wm.
in Upper Clapton, Mrs.
and proprietor of the Kmg's Head, in Threadneedle-street.
On the 21st inst. at the house of her brother, Mr. Ht.lair
Okey, of Burton-street, Mrs. Elizabeth Lucy Shaw, of
Hackney, aged 62.
At talgiee,hi house
On the 17th inst. at Tynningham, Charles, Earl of Had-
dington, in the 75th year of his age.
At Northlands, county of Tipperary, Captain Hamm/re-
fry, late of the 19th Lancers,
The Rev. John Williams, 8.D., late Fellow of Ezeter
College, and Vicar of Probus, Carawal

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