The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-15 00:00:00

CORONItIt'S INQULSTS.

On Saturday a COrmler's Inquest was held at
the. Red Lioii„ cdiri4es,...stre4t, On the body of Mr.
Roam's, a tespeetahle silversmith in Fleet-street.,
Who Was fe)111)(1 drowned in the Green Mark boon.
nearly opposite Sir F. BoalnreS fly
the, evidenei rot "rine of his dughters, it appeared
the deiedstd htid been very dejected far many
days past, stipposed to have arheu front donie,tic
mistortimes I; that on. Wennesday afternoon be
went from hOme, and at night was discovered
"hoping in the'ba.ton, on the batiks of which he
had been noticed, walking about fur two hours.—
Verdiet—Fou»d Drotaneri.

Saturday evening an Intinest was held at the
White HAI, Cumberland-row, Battle bridge, be_
'fare THo),i4l'siletLlNG, Coroner . for Middlesex,
an the body.or `lies Susan Cooper, >t ehild.eight
ye;ns obi,, dmfghl 07 to Mr. Cooper, a respectable
lapidary, living at No. t, John-street, Battle-
7,bridge, who„ town her with her little liar-
riet.,.agett teu years, both fell victims to their
clothes taking , hoe, It appeared that Mr. and
Mys: Cooper went, out to. spend the evenint.; st. a
friend's, leaving their. four; children, all girls, the
eldest only eleveit years ohl, at borne. The.eir
euntstunces hive hoew already stated. Harriet
died.. in two days nfterlthe accident lipppened, and
Susan. languished shine, in extreme agony, until
death put an • end to, her sufferings on Thursday.
last.. The Coroner and Jury lamented t!ie
roils, Accidents. of this nature that daily occur
through the gross neglect of parents leaving their
children alone: .-Vertliet—AieWraiitheata.

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character; CiiNle this Mottling to a clay laritittrer
litioleri he pretence of measuring something, and
laid=soini.: lire upon the loft of the. house, which
'broke Out into &Imes', oath horn( t% garret. Then
he 'trent to another house at some distance, and
was going to set tire to a truss .of atraw with
matelres, witun he was disturtied. , Thou he wont
(inure, wife' e he imide the following preparations
to set tlie II cici6e on fire n ;-,-O Ix rabiu in the
as :dtl le of the room he laid .ts bag tun tit gull.
)),.. der, r with 0 grenade' filled with' powtter i
ittkratigh the root he Put two loadetfmnsketS, then
be went to the house of his latlrer-in-law, which
is only tea paces off, and set it on firebrands..
Not satisfied with this, lie wounds his father-in- . . .. .
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lawar.with a stretch in the arm and the right hund i
tsVOTPIEE ATTEMPT A.T ASSr,ISIINATION.--Yes-
cat• his inother.in-law over the skull, wounds her • ' . '
terdity moriung, , abut one o'clock, as Mr. JAtußs
eyes abet cheeks, cuts .her upaa the back and - ii t,
Hanover-street, . Long,acre,
shoulders, and his oviot wife, who is near her time, A . I"! -of N 4). 81 •
'titinin !mine through, Itose-streat from
was r.e g
*coupling to :seize his arm, he WOutids in several ,
sneadtag'the preceding eveniag with Spirlefrielitli,
places and mityclers her ; then; Ihivior,,, pierced his .
al young man, of respectahle appearance and ad-
horse', be shoots himself with a double barrelled pis-
t ress, Cattle 'tin to ban and presentetl,a photo( to
tol, so that the w bole is torn away. Tbe above ionise
his breivit Mr Day h instant I s ly held up hit is qttitehartit dOwn •; happily,
.the ►grenade. in Ilia
liand•to ward 4*( 4, when the other 6l'vd, but
lawn roma did not eaten- foe.- That the villain providentially a idiom effect ; the, flash beitig:so
(who, howevvr,. must be prelim-tied to have been
close to Mr. I.)Avtcs, for the mom he-did not
insane. belore tic committed such. """rd (4. homy hut lie was wintitiled, and be cut.
cried pot ninr-,
crimes) proceeded in appearisoce (mite coolly is der as loud as he could: the other, finding his
%hewn by the circumstance, that 'the day before
object defeated,' struck hits with the pistol 40'081
be had said' at the ale -house, that be would Make the head, On which , they closed, and.. With .fell.
April Alois of the whole parish. The old fat 'WI'
end mother-in•law are indeed still living, but their ► I,r, tne„aly; ,PlEmt,Vii‘,4,cl:! sir" ing.iilleC of rat,l(",',9:nd;t,he
tecovery is desqtrfired 4. 'Wad rat
b6ttlileispelteltatie‘ri :h"o'L;;`,:.aw. i;.na-‘4lc'c'tlibie.:ll"iirl'utileieuitil,obTleis,P. L'aiitrtilile'y'ghl:
come to us front a quarter that may
scantly repaired to the spot, some of whom recap
upon, ;ire we should have considered it as a first of
Hilted Mr. DAirlits, and UCCOUlpanied him ti, the
April story, and have throwts.itaside.)' , ,
Watch,-House, where he gave charge or his assail-
eat,
in LoudOn &It Apyil, 33-11. Watcli
eat, who was taker; 'into custody, . and wba,. oti
being asked what was his motive for inch a '4.11„.
bol:wai attoMpt, said, he had done it in his ,01V il
defence: •lie refused to send for any friends, sny
•
lug, lie would eXplain every thing before the.% .
gtstrate. he constable of die 'lligitt asked him
why lie carried loadad pistols about him ? He re-
plied, he was a gun-sititli by trade, anti bed. the.
piStol to repair it; that 14 mime is Joseph King,
non, re's-itliog at No. 5. Angel-court,
.Long-acre,
He was' then sent-died, and-a, tiftakfitli of powder,
and another flask full of slugs and large shot n- ra
§- e
found on him ; but be relosed to account
.why Its; '
had No..i, things about him, sayingile i
het:g'oitrillrdiiaten;
ewer any vest ions put to him by u
but whether robbery or murder was his object is
'tot yet ascertained : he is,. however., .t:pt. in.
Close custody• . .
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Seicita.—.Friday afternoon a circumstance
happened. at the. n,,y4, flosidtal at Mislay,' very
tli,ittesiwg to the feelings or allhelonging to that
I,stablithiutnt : .a r,olilicr of (lig 28,1 a reginicrit,
xvhilst doing duty as a sentiliel,'"plact-d, with ap
patently the most compuseilitrenicilitation, tha
but•ctui.of his musket, iii an angular direction,
part without his box, lea o t his head towiiid., Olt;
muzzle, and then' fired oft. its contents, x% h icli aii,
I)6'u',ti 'his head about the s tot, and presented.. a
spectacle must shocking to behold , he tell dead
opon his knees. = The only eireunistanee know+)
to have moved him to this dreadful act is, that,
for some bread! of his duty, lie had been placed
under confinement, and 'lie feared this would.
shortly lio followed by saute severer NNW:Meat. '

°Lb BAlLnr, AgAiL

111 P, JEW v. TUE CARPS:ITM

Ateixieell Hume, late Carpenter on -boar(' hit
Majesty's ship Veen, *stood indicted for haying
defrauded Isaac. Levy, a Jew Agent, out of the
sum isf 1001.- in goods and monies.
Mr, ADotvittis briefly stated .the eireumstances
of the case to the Jury, and in support of the pro-
secution, called isauc'Levy, who deposed, that he
is a navy agent ; that he carried on his business,
at the: Commercial Chambers, Minories. About
the 16thor 17th of February, 1815, the prisoner
caine to the witness) and told hint that he was en-
titled ,to. it large proportion at prize-money for
the capture of, the Island of Java, and that he was
recsiunmended to him (prosecutor) to• purchase it/
saying it was to he assigned free from all inems-
hrances. IVitnesi asked him if ever he had an
agent, or if he had made a prior assignment ?
width
.the prisoner replied, be bad Made no as-
signment, and had always ipassed his own aC,. •
counts without committing them to an agent.---,
The amount of the prize-money due was tot as•
certaiued at this time, and witness purchased it
upon a speculation, paying-him (the prisoner), as
a cantideration, lit money and goods, 1001. An
application- was afterwards made to the regular
agents for the payment of that assignment, when
it was ,discovered that a previous assignment bad
been made by, the prisoner.
. Cross-examined by Mr. WAl.Vonrs.—He was a navy-agent—
um a slop-seller.
What money did yon pay the prisoner, Mr. Levy ?--11..
Sixty pounds.in aoaies_and the remainder in pods. •
Q. WhAt, all in hard cash,. Mra.evy 'No, Sir, soft
cash---,:s laugh). Ha did not know that the prisoner's share
Tr the capture would came to between I; and ;001. Tbe as-
*foment was read over to prisoner—he would ‘• siert,. dot,"
His son and a Mr.' Edmunds were subscribing witnesses to it.
Mr. Ituconnta..--The prize-money for the island of Java
must have been considerable. I should like to know how you
made the bargain, Mr. Loy I took it alt upon specu-
lation, my- Lord ; she was but a frigate.
Mr. ItEcottont.—Then you yOurstlf being a prize-agent,
Air. Levy, mean to tell the Gentlemen at. the July, that you
did not go to the. regular agents appointed by Goverment to
inquire whether the prisoner was entitled to it. or hUol.?—A.
Yes, soy Lord, I took it upon speculation, whether it was worth
U. or UV.
Charles Edmunds produced an assignment, which the pri-
soner executed in his presence : wttness was ()Neal the 8104.
seribiag witnesses to it.
,It bore date 20th February, 10.113.
Ir wait read over to prisoner at the tithe it was executed, and
lit exprtsied himself fully satisfied. Prisoner di livered it as
his act and deed : it was his signature to the receipt.
Cross-exaurnitil.-I,le saw the money paid.'
Q. " What! the whole of it, Mr. Edmunds tt 601.
or 701. I don't know exactly ; prisoner was 44;11.0:ed."
Mr. account:a. "That stabiles/ seems to you to he a mho
for every thing."
Edmunds. " I do not know what motley was paid; I wilt
nut swear to any'specilic snot. I made novbservatiou on the
badness of the prisuner's siguatore."
Mr. Henry Cook, clerk. to Messra. Branton and Wallace,
agents appointed by Government to' diStribute the prize
imi:iry for the island of Java, said he recollected an applica-
lielngtmule tor the payment of the in ize money due to
the pris'oner, It .was _nut boa over -11.5.i4 in' consequence of
the prisim4 having previottily mado over a, jet irate assign-
ment to" Messrs. Branton and Wallace far l t.tl. and two
thirds of that ma vv, ,e due to the prisoner. • Witness pro-
titre ell the assignment. '
Cross-eammoed. 'The first payment was 1.1:;I, and witness
thaortilt that 701. or :•.01. more worth' conetade the whole.—
Tile capture was i.,:ertl•Mber tan, Mid air impossible
to say, wisest Si island 'like jeVe 514*telell, what the
'prizes WOUI4I 4111t,1110
• Mr. Mai the s was't he attesting-wit ness...to the deter pro-
duced, tie saw it attested by the istivitirr.
The two assigoluents were tit cu read, end Mold-
ed to the July, when Mr. WALI,oar) observed,
that the signatures purporting to he the pristmer's
were as ditfereut, as hands could niake.them ; but
as he was not instructed to prove it a forgery, he
would content himself by addressieg the Jury,
which he did in a very energetic manlier, descant-
ing with notch torceupoo the nsurions principles
cif Mosaic ageoey, lie did not, howeVer, 611 any
witnesses to controvert any specific fact spoken tai
by any of the evidences called for the proieention.
-During the time be-occupied : the Court in his ad-
'dress to the jitiy, the Jew (Mr: Levy) was almost
iti a fit of laughter, particularly. when any he=
morons observation fell froth him touching the '
:honour of their people 4 ' • r
was" about to suns up the evi-
dence, but upon a reference to the indictment,
he found that it' set forth, that the prisoner hail
defrauded the' prosecutor- of ','lool. in 11801141,"
wheicas it appeared In evidence that Levy paid
the money iii bank notes,:-and it bail been held in
kW, that bank notes were., Nut. /mom), although
they were an eluivalant for money. The rose-
cnior had himself ,admitted,' that the Sinn Was
paid in soft end not in hard cash, consequently
it was-fatal to the indictment. I(thelndicitilent
liad set forth bunk stoles; it would have beeti right;
but as it stood, it
,app.eared to be diamond'etit dia-
mond, and the prisoner was entitled to an 'acquit.;
be Jury accordingly found the prisoner
Not Guilty.
Street stood inflicted capitally-for break
big and. entering the dwelling-house of the fun.
S. E EArdtey, and stealing therein a groat quan-
tity of svearing-apparel, the property of Edward
Parsons. The Jury found him Guilty of stealing
wily. He was then indicted- for breaking and
entering the dwelliog.house --of Archibald' Jobe
I.rriMrose, 'EI. commonly Caned Earl of Rose-
berry, and stealing therein -a variety-of articles of
sveariag apparel, the property of Charles HMIs.
Charles lions depoied, that he ;s postillion trip, tit*
Earl of ltoseberry ; the stables were in South
-Portlithd Mews ;von the rith :of • February, about
half-past nine o'elockithewitness saw, the stabies
quite .secure ; be,reterneti at- ten (.)4clock, and
discovered the door had beets hroken-open ; he.
hinflthedoor he found a. tobacco , pipe, -matches,
&c. ; a .box. coat, begat coat, arid other, articles
were. missing.

James itlitrsh, coachman to die Earl of Roy/.
berry, deposed,', that the box:,-coat and stirtout
coat were his ; a cover cloth, now prodticed, was
the property of the Earl-of- itoseherry.. A con-
stable produced some shirts, walucoats,.stockings,
&C. found at the prisoner's ludgingsi: ail of wltkit
Hints identifita atehis property..
The evidence being closed „qr. ApoLPuus sub-
mitted that the description of the prosecutor-in
,the indictment 'VAS incorrect ; he was .there de-
scribed as Archibald ~Jotitt 'Esq. com-
monly celled Earl ofAtoscherry ; and as he is a
`Peer of the 1 arslur, though not A PCur Pariia-
thrnt, he Could ...nut be describetras
Mr. ALLatc-said there ti'as ntile fuee
of the record It) leaves ant the intermediate pints,
consetioutlay the Esquire was such apart,of the
title as could be dispensed with. After consider-
ible argument, the Itecorderwent to 43/11

k4ialtv with

the qattlinitif tierje;inl; tin
shonitleertainly reserve the point in the
tio,n of the Jiulgeg.
The Itri wirer Wos again cninta',:y indicted far
streaking and entdriog the soibles vi'
dwelling-house of Lieut.-General titnries llirton;
~and, stealing a watch, two great h
coats; .tei'#
40‘vos, pillow, cities, tinti.n greot quantity of *ear.
in apparel, the. property of Isaac Morgan,
pistol, the property Of iieneral Barton.
Acts being proired, the Jury, hoot hesitation;
tottnyl the priinner.Guilty--Deutit.
There were five other indictmentS of a similae
nature against the priioner, upon twhich the Contc
did not think proper to try him. The proseci),ort
in all tlx eases being ptesetit, they were ordered
to he. paid their el(peuers.
Thomas Wells, a clerk itt the emplityment d
Messrs. Other, anctionbers-and sueveynrsi
of the Kent-road. was 'convicted. of embezzling
anti approprhoing tollis;ownqtae, the sum of`lBlt
Ids. paid to hint by A1r..11-Vh, on account of bit
employers., He was recomnieuded to mercy. •
The following were capitalireouricted:;--
itubert Vale, for breaking and etWring the dwaing`bmia..n
of 'Richard I..rt-ett, and iieating three 6hte•ehothsg thref
er yam's, 3,:g. value .tos. and upward, ,
of jtulleiiiiirily rlMlolsofiuhr, littriii:44;:ttilrilfrol.linusttit. 7 of
14
value
154
Jciie Verbui•p, for har4!arionAi breaking and ordain; the
&Telling-braise of Itialird Let.:osti acrd-stealiug three Ole'
cloths, three sUeer spoon', ad. bit poverty.

POLICIt IN rEE.E4iGUNCD.