The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-27 00:00:00

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ia Evesit;int's7huildings, •14111ei'S. t herwe
TtioNt.vs- S•rtamtvo, Esq. Coroner tar Aiitifitti,
on the body of Margaret Pearson. l t adpeat ed
evidence. that the deceased, who was 70 years t.f
age, was employed on the preceding day to e.tealt
the .house of Mr. Jackson, of Crescent-place; anti
about two o'clock she was taken in a fit, and car-
ried home to her lodgings in the•honse a,l tieorge
Brown, Cart iage- bnilffer, N 0.7, clarention place,
where she shortly afterwards expired. Mr. Rich-
ardStinirrell, sutgeort, mho attendtitl, deposed,
that. he'believt:d the deceased at in a fit 61 apt).
plcxy.—Verdiet--.Died by lite Vixitatioo of God.
Another ltopiezt was held at tour o'cl-ek, 'yesterd" evening, at the Slanted Dog, Strand,
on the body of William Hardinghant. It appeared,
on the evidence of his brother, Charles Harding-%
ham, a shoemaker, living at No, 37, St. Martio":•
lane, that be:and the dee,eased went to bathe in the
'Thames, oil Nlillbank, about nine o'clock, last
Sunday morning ; that the' deceastql was a gito,l
stiimmer, and swam aliont 100 vards, when ending:
himself grow weak, he calla tl to his brother tt,
bring him a boat ; but berate he could 'effect it, the
deceased stink to rise no more.

Air. Sullivan, boat-builder, at Mil'bank, pro-
cnred drags and nets, and used every poss,ible
deavour to get. the body, but to no purpose.
Nlr. John Lucas liardingliam, 'an attorney's
clerk, and 'brother to the decetoed, and Mr. Peter
Wall,. his brother-in-law; employed a boat,
drugged fur tlic hotly the remainder ut the after,
noon, but to no purpose; and the body Win 100114
floating. in the river, oppo,ite St-land-lane Stair'l
about half-past five o'clock on the preceding
Verdict—Accideolully drowned whilst bath-,
big in the firer Thames.
Mu Rua! I .•,--ths • Monday last an Inquest t 1 tcs'
held, at Kirton, near: Bristol', 'by" C. MASTIN,
.Gent. coroner, 'you the body of a ne%%'-hikrit
female child, Of. which Eliza/re/4 Witiug, wit*,
of *John was delivered on Wednesdi, y
the. kith. The said Elizabeth Wilting stanus
charged by the iii iiaitiuu With the wilful ;wader
of her said child, Num the 1111. W clear and
aa-
tisfactory evidence, by forcing it to swallOw tol
quantity' of, butter -of antimony, in Ilaternan's
Drops, of which she had possessed herself a few
days previously to her confinement. The Coroner
imMediately issued out ii:wurrain of cullilnitillent
01 her two n Castle, as soon as it shall
boonl sale and practicahle,to remove her.

.The brig Snri.r.se, Capta a Itoso, belonging to
Jaines 131;lek and *Co. on her voyage Iruni the.
Clyde to St. l'honots's and this with t 1
most vahhhie cargo Otis lost in the
,end of Decetnber, on the coast of Africa, lit'diriy-
,oppoiti-to the Canary hittilliS and the crew
and passengers were noirched fowl cell ys' j.wr-
ticv up the ciitititry, in :fstate of shve,ry.
had arrived Ist :Sviez, within eight. slays' joitr-
ney,ol Alogatiorc. The riecolints of this ill isfor.,
tulle came through the British Consul at Moga.,
11:jih usiug every exertion to FCCMCIP
the
,eaptives, and with' every hope of success.
`rite passengers %rue Mr. W. Black, son of thts
principal i.cOprietor of the ship, another:Gentle-
pan 01 the what ih tt partner in the
'inure ; and Mr. Basinful, trout Port
(Jamaica Gazelle, June 1.) ,

Ltatherieigli, t small town in ,tite COlllll y of
Devon, exisE ttvo remorkable •eo,f(111-1i10—ohe, that
crery .mnraing and evening, soon alter the•elnocli
dock has,Stinek fine and • nine, a bell from the
same steeple announces, by aistioct\ strokes, the
number Of •ike day-tit the -month. otiginally in-
to-1110, ,perhaps", for, the information of • the tin-
learned vii!aTgers ; the other is, that 'atter a funeral,
the elitireli ring" a lively peal, as, in other
places, aria a wedding and to. this custom the
parishioners: are perfectly reenticiletl, by the con-•'
sidvration that the. deceased is r.emoved Itoin a„ •
.SCCIIC of trouble to a state Of rest and pence.
A singtiliir instance of maternal affection. (if we
may be allotVed- the terM)' Occurred in a gitlfielY at:
Abbey, near Leeds.,, a•ft(w days ago,—
, A game hen'. had been pot there With a brood of'
young pheasants;:' A *b. ,twk iii endea vOuring
ponne.2 upon one of -these, was arrested to its.*
protiiress hyt he hen : it long conflict etisned, and the
hawk Was at length so disabled as to he taken alive ! •

Last ,veek, is the stay goes, a Couple of '
friends calle(I at the puhlte-loose of Mr. °Oen,
at illockly, and whilst regaling themselves, ado;;
belonging to' one of them cause stidr!enly in, awl.
.dropped at leis master's feet a bundle, containing;
a goatitity of bank-notes ; 'both instantly stoup-
Cillo'take it up, hut' the owner at the dog failed
in•getting possession of it, and the other securing.
it, pleads the title of ,betterlortune to justify his
claim to detension, whilst 'the •other.asserts his
right, from the ag,:ticy of his dumb steward, and
has already Made it the subject of legal inquiry.
Rumour haS iwelled the amount of the notes to
15001,4 and what is singular, no person, in the
qUatity of owner, has yet come forwuid to settle
the. disputes.—(Manchester Paper.)
About three o'clock. on Sunday we bad a ire- •
mentions storm, which continued about three
hunts. The:tlashes of lightning were extremely
vivid, and, as Well as the thunder, were alino;t.
incessant ; the rain, at the some time, falling in
torrents. The liirlitning killed a co,w belonging
to Mr. Langford, of Comlover Grange, and some
other accidents Itite Occurred, The'-re was a tee-
Mentions StOttil on tVednesdAy, it; the vicinity of ,
Stretton ; and the farmers in this county altnok.'
despair of get Ont in their Itsy in a State fit hit'
lodder--(ShretvebarylChrimiele.),
The following: distressing circumstance occur-
red at Hull, last Tuesday :—As liosortiworth.
of Kilviogton, near Thirer, fla%-dresser, aged ,71,
was Walking on the quay ut Mr. R. Watson, Suit-
house-lane; Staid's, a boliftin of flaic wits throw 4
upon him from a ch,iin!,cr on the secnettl fioar of a
warehouse, which srrik hitit on the hew ()coo-
sioned his death the following morning, although
medical assistatice- was instantly procoOni, We
ustuleriktand he has left lt/chiliiren Ford 36 woad"
child&n.—What rs very remarkable, he hint for 7%
considerable dole been 11'1:1 gin, the passiniktr4
Against the danger of goin4 near the plocv:". diJ
the hobbio which leg ninth hint was ocur:y the
hilt in the clvihther, Otieer
.to.'Nei,e
previously been sti uck~ by one of the bobbins, at,l
is in eahsiderable tiangerl.