The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

An inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon
before .'T STIRLING, iffsq. Coroner, at the Hole-
Chanceiy-lane, on the bOdy of John
Stiffel, Esq. of 'Took's•court, Chancery-lane,
Clerk of Recoveries in the Prothonotariest Office,
whose &atir was caused by being precipi•ated
from a window on the third floor at the back of
his house upon some railings which were under•
neAth on the ground, which cut open his head so
horridly that the brains were scattered on the
ground and against the wall_

Mary Chapman stated, that she resided next door to the
deceaSed, and had known him for some years. 'Tuesday morn.
ing, about ten o'clock, she was in her front room and heard a
most violent noise of a window breaking ; she went Wart the
cause, and beheld the deceased on the ground; he had nut
quite reached the ground when she first .saw hint ; she was
terrified, and ran and informed her parents. Several persons
immediately ran to his assistance Whether the deceased
.fell through the window by accident, or threw himself out,
witness could nut say. The deceased was frequently in th,e
habit of leaning through the back windows and calling to the
children who were playing in the garden.
Mr. Titus Owen. surgeom, Chancery-lane, said, he had
known the deceased fur some years, hr was a most respect.
able Gentleman. He called at witness's house about a month
ago, with Mrs. Satre!, who had met with a trifling accident.
Witness bad been informed that the deceased had been since
that time subject to fits of drowsiness, languor, and headache.
Witness had generally attended the deceased's family. Wit,
ness did sot think him a person likely to commit suicide, el-
cept through derangement. The deceased's son came to witness
on Tuesday morning, and requested him to attend his father,
who he said had fallen out of a window; witness attended
him immediately, he found his skull was shattered to pieces,
and he presented a shocking spectacle.
Mr. George Clark, watchmaker, Aidersgate-street, said, he
had known the deceased many years. Monday afire noon' he
paid him a visit; he was very drowsy, and while witness left
the room he fell asleep ; when witness returned the deceased
opened his eyes wildly, and stared at him in a very unusual
manner, saying, he had not slept for several nights; en the
following morning he heard of his melancholy death.
Rebecca Ralph, servant to the deceased, stated, that the
deceased had lately complained much of the heat, and fre-
quently sat up stairs in the room, front whence he fell, read-
ing at the window; .a few minutes before he fell from the
window, she heard him cell to a child in the garden, " Do not
make suck a nuise."--Verelict, Accidental Death.

Yesterday an Inquisition was taken at the Fox,.
l'rincess•street, Lambeth,• before CHARLES JRH-
METT, Fegi. Coroner for Surray, on the body of
,Ur, Henry Howard, of that place, who committed
suicide. It appeared, that on the 28th of July,
the deceased went, about ten o'clock in the morn-
ing, to the Fox, where he remained drinking for
about an hour, anti then suddenly lett the house
and went into the yard ; iu about 3 minute after-
wards tie report of a pistol was heatd, and the
body of, the deceased was found in the back
ground ; he •was lying flat upon his back, and
blood issuing out of his mouth, he having shot
himself 1111.0%10 the head. A brace of pistols were
found lying by his side, one of them recently dis-
charged. The domes; ics of trde deceased %vete ex.
omitted, and they 'ail- deposed to the low and de.
spondiog state of his' mind for some time pie.
sinus to his death. Verdict7-Larrucy.

DRRADFUL AccloaNT.—Satutday morning the
following most lamentable and unfortunate oc-
currence took place on Messrs. lloriells' pre-
mises, in the second Back-lane, in Exeter.--
Three men, William Middlewick, Nicholas En-
at ace, Finnemore, were employed in
making a pit, tor the reception of the contents
of a sewer. Middle.% ick having neatly completed
an adit, was in the act of ascending the ladder,
when lie dropped kis 3110 VCI, 811(1, 0111 his returning
for the same, nearly the whole conteivs of the
privy burst upon hurt, and ceased instant
'y ova-
tion. llis companion, Eustace, immediately de.
scended to his assistance, and before he had got
half way down the ladder, the noxious vapour
precipitated him to the bottom,-and he shared a
similar fate. A third man, Williat» Fiunemore,
then went down, and he tell in ; and on a person,
of the name of Giles Tozer, in the• employ of
Mr. G. Turner, silversmith, being apprised of the
shocking circumstance, lie volunteered his ser-
vices, and lie also fell from the ladder. Another
man (hen went down; with a rope affixed round
his body, who was immediately drawn up in a
state of insensibility ; in conse.preoce of which no
others could be found to undertake .the hazardous
task of descending.the pit, until Mr. John Rouse,
ut Exeter, plumber, having been informed of the
mrlanchily eveid, instantly repaired to the spot,
and- with that 111111.181111 y which' ought never to he
forgotten, went down the ladder, and succeeded
iii bringing up three of the unfortunate men, vie.
Tozer, Finnemore, and Middlewick, and with the..
assistance of a person named Risewell, (Mr.'
Rouse being nearly exhausted with his too:lane
efforts), got tip the other 'poor fellow, Eustace,
who, together with Miudlewick, were lifeless;
and every meats used for their recovery by seve-
ral professional Gentlemen proved ineffectual.
Fitinemore and Tozer were immediately put to
bed in a dangerous state ; and we are sorry to
say, that on Monday morning, about six o'clock,
the Fitter breathed his leaving a wile auttowe
child, in the most indigent circumstances, to la-
ment his unhappy deu,ise. Fiunemore, we are
informed, still lies extremely ill.. Thus (liter in..
dividudis lost their lives—two of them in the
cause of humanity, in endeavouring to extricate a
*l,OAm-creature from a premature death.

FOll THE SUN.

FRAM! ENT ON GOVERNMENT and MONA PARTE

Jr is tinlAwini to resist a good Government 5

bill not ri,....idrions or corroptiotts, Which are,
its destrtiction. l'o resist these is to (port
it.

Bad as the Government of France was, the
People might have matte it better s but lost in the
wilt's 31 yid! liherly,. their leaders engendered
the evils they•intended to prevent, HMI I hey was ied
With unoffending nations, to constitute them one
and iltdivitlable. They then ruined a good cause,
and cultivated a wict,ed one, until all their ag-
gressions, enormities, and atrocities, have ended
in defeat and disgrace, misery and bloodshed.
A*.hens began its ruin in a mad expensive war
on Sicily, which never gave it offence. This
brought Lacedemon on its own subjects and al-
thongh under Alcibiades they were partly vic-
torious, it was at last conquered under Lysander,.
and became subject to thirty Tyrants.
Lacedemon a'so, in lording-it over Greece, had
the same fate : several cities warred against it,
together with the Thehans, headed by Epaminon-
(las, until they:all fell under the servitude of Ma-
n

The lust of dominion increases with the vanity
of success, until all is lost in a genera! grasp.
The state of France, under Unman Butcher,
vrt,o turned the fields of Europe into slaughter-
houses for men, leads to these thoughts, with an op-
/It-opt i ire reflection that, like Agag, a wicked King
of Amelak,and aneuemy ot lirael,lie deserves to be
hewn in rei es by another Samuel, exclaiming,
by sword has made women childless, so

shall mother be childless mong women."
After the murder of the Fret.ch King, the Go-
vernment fell it:to the bands of Adventurers, who
'murdered one another, until Blonaparte, a Gene-
ral ot Art;Hely (a-parvenu), came to Paris, seized
the Chair of the Convention, front whence he
forted his hi mho, and made himself Chief Con-
sul ; in character, as it seemed to be the
sense of the People, England made peace with
him. This, in his ambition, he broke before the
year was out, and he, was afterwards beat by sea
and land, as well as defeated in his designs on
India, by the arms of Great Britain and Ireland.
He invaded surrounding Nations on the Conti-
nent, and his injtirie., insults, and perfidy, at last
roused them into a genet al alliance against him.—
They pervesed his efforts, and drove hint back to
the capital. England, alone, fought bin] through
two Kingd.rns, Portugal and Spain, into France;
R +ia , Prussia, and Germany drove hint out of
:Muscovy; Poland and Austria up to the gates of
Paris, where he was compelled to declare his ab-
dication of a Throne he had usurped, on the
sparing of his life. This brought home the legi-
timate Sovereign to rule a degenerated people in
peace, and improve lue Constitution of their

Con u try. '
The humbled Tyrant now of necessity submit-
ted to cooditions, and the Isle of Elba was chrism
for his retreat. Here he remained but a few
months, when he quitted it, broke his engage-
ments, and landed again in Frunce, t+ here he ap-
pr .a&,ett the seat of Government, which induced
the King, in his- prudence, to quit it, anti seek his
ssfcty .41 it, frontiers. Such an unexpected and

pit-viral *invasion justly excited the resentment o

the Allies, tsho re-armed to chastise his ingrati

Wife They came, they saw, ar.d compered him
11, at ran a,Nay to Farts, and they fOilowet'

'1 to its walls. lie declared, a second time,
his abdit a•i''n of a 'Enron e lie had polluted by his
a tumination-,, and an usurpation doubly audit-

clong, diso,yned by the Senate, deserted by the

Army. and in fear of death. Then he fled to the

west shove of the kingdom, in hopes of escaping
to America, hot prevented, lie resigned himself a
pr sutler to England, in_ preference to any other

Po,ver, under which he•suspected he should lose
Lip life. England, therefore, in her mercy, tran-
sl►orte<i hies for life to the Island of Saint 'Mena,

as a criminal of the blackest dye.
This has brought forth many writers to bran-
dish their pens, and shed whole floods of ink, ob-
liquely insinuating ►hat little Old England, in her

tr,incendancy, tr4s (tone wrong ; but let them-be

informed that this laws natures, this complica-
tion-of • all vices,. this outlaw, the moment lie

quitted Elba, and trod the souihern shore of

Gallia, was a trespasser on its dominions, a capi-

tal &Unguent, more deserving of trial and con-

vicrion,. sentence and death, by the hands of a

public executioner, than the mild mode of banish-

meat he is now suffering, followed by the scorn
Of WISDOM arid ♦IRTUE, and pitied only by IGNO-

RANCE and VlaS.

TERR7Z FILMS.

Pickled salmon writ never known so dear in
Lmi(lo,l as during the resent slimmer, ihe re-
tailers bovine to pay to the wholesale dealers for
3t after the r6te of 21. 59. pet kit.