The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-17 00:00:00

THE YOUNG MAN SHOT BY HIS FATHER.

Cottomates INQUEST.---Yesterday evening an
lot-pest was held itt eke Board Room of St
Thomas's hospital, before T. SHELTON, Esq.
Coroner, on the body tt John Fawcett, aged 19,
whose death was caused by a pistol shot wound in
the side, intlicted by his own father. The Jury
being impanneled and sworn, they repaired to
view the body, and on their return, they proceed-
ed to IMO the evidence, which was to the sante
purport as that given ut Union Hall. At the
conclusion of the evidence, the Coroner, at great
length, surumed Hp, and &telt chiefly on points
of law material to the case ; he said, that the
latv would not justify a man who repaired to a
htoise with an intent►t>n to murder one man, and
by mistake killed another. The Jury retired
to a separate room, and after about half an
hour's deliberation, returned a Verdict of "
fld Murder against John Fawcett, sen." and the
Lorimer bound over the witnesses to prosecute,

PAR LTA MENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARctr 16.

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The Indemnity Bill was brought_ up bs, Mr.
Brogden and other Members of the House of
Commons, returned agreed fo. , . .
The Greenland Fishery Oaths -WI!, the Bath
Gas Light Bill, the Exeter Gaol Bill, a local and
A private Bill, were brought up from die House of
Commons by Mr. Brogden, Mr. Dickinson, Mr.
Courtenay, Sir B Wu,. Guise, and other Mem-
bers, and read a fits! ,time.,

The Roy4l Marine 111utiny Bill was read a third
time And pasqed.
The Scots Aqua Vita Licenses Bill pas•e►l
through a Committee, and was reported without
Amendment.

•
Mr. Alcock, from the Treasury, presented Ac-
counts of the Net Produce of the Revenue, and of
Offices granted in Reversion in Scotland and Ire-
land. Mr. Winchester, from.the Post-Office, an
Account of Arrears and Balance's in the Hands of
Deputy Postmasters General; and Mr. Higham,
from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt, au Account of the Stock pur-'
chased by arm on each Transfer Day, since the
commencement of the year.--Ordered to lie up-
on the table.

The Reversion Account was subsequently or-
dered to be printed, upon the motion of the Eari
Gaosvesort, who intimated his intention of
bringing forward, on a future day, a proposition
reispect bit Grant. Reversion.

The Earl of SHARTEsfltinv t..id Upon flip .r,hip
an Account of persons arrested and detained since
January last, moved for on a former day, which
was.subsecrently, on the motion of Lord Hol-
land, ordered to be printed.
The Matgnis of DOWNSHIRE .moved for the
Correspondence between the First Commissioner
of the Revenue and the Churchwardens and Clergy
of the Parishes in Ire'slid, upon the subject of a
Commutatio❑ of the Window 'fax ; which was

Ilis Lordship then presented Petitions from
Dublin and Belfast, against the Continuance of
the Window Tax ; and stated that previous to the
Union, a pledge had been given by the then Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in the Irish Parliament,
that the Window Tax should only be continued
during the War.

The Petitions .were ordered to lie upon the
:Able. •

'1 he Earl of ROSSLYN gave notice of his inten-
tion to move the second reading of the Bath Gas-
light Bill to-morrow.

Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. Winchester, from :be Post-Otfice, presented certain
Papers connected with that Department.—Ordered to he on
the table.

Petitions against the Leather Tax were presented from Bo-
roughln idge and Horneastle.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Lord LASCELLES presented a petition from the retail
Shopkeepers of Halifax,eomplaining of injury arising to trade
from Urilicence(' Hawkers; and against the mode of assessment
of thy Local Taxes.

Sir E. BRYDGES brought in the Copyright Bill. It was
cad a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the
10111 of April next.

Mr. Alderman WOOD brought in the Bill for erecting a
Bridge across the Thames at Ratcliffe. Having done his i;tit)i
thus tar by the Bill, hr expressed his determination to opposei
its further progress in every stage. When the Bridge at(
Ir.....PkfriArs was built, a Colli peusat ion to the amount of i3,010V
was given to that most useful body the 'it atermen on the Ri-
ver. No compensation Was now intended, and' that, he
hoped, would be considered a vital objection to its adoption,
interfering, as it did, with the interests of, a holly of torn
who had already contributed so essentially to the naval 'dos
fence of the couotry.—The Bill was read a first time.