Star.
London, England, 1823-07-23 00:00:00

CORO Ell'S ILVQ UES r.

An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon before
THOMAS STIRLING, Ecq. Coroner, at the Middlesex
Hospital, on view of the body of George Robinson, a
young man. aged 16 years, who was unfortunately
killed in consequence of falling from the window of
a house, N 0.20, Stratford-place, on Thursday last.
Ann Davis deposed, she resides at N 0.20, Strat-
ford-place, Oxford-street, and is housekeeper there
to Mr. Emerson ; deceased was also footman in the
family. On Thursday last he was engaged in clean-
ing the windows, and came down in the hall to
answer the door. The witness informed him she
would open the door in future, and he returned to
clean the drawing-room windows. Shortly after she
heard something fall very heavy. On going up stairs
she found the deceased lying on the pavement. Thel
wooden work was not rotten to occasion his fall. The
deceased was ordered not to clean the windows on,
the outside, and witness was desired by her mistress
to fetch a glazier; she charged the deceased particu-
larly not to go outside; the accident happened about
eleven o'clock in the forenoon ; deceased was quite
sober; the witness considered it purely accidental.
Stephen Hunt, servant to Mr. Warre, No. S, Strat-
ford-place, was passing by N 0.20, and saw deceased
cleaning the window; he cautioned him to take care,
as he considered him in a very dangerous situation,
and he observed to a person passing his danger; the
deceased made some reply, and went on cleaning
the window.
Stephen Clerk; one of the surgeons in the Hospital,
said the deceased was brunet there on Thursday
last; both his arms were fractured, one 'hadfa cosh-
pound fracture • bi had also reCtilved s'ome injuries
in the front part of his 'heed; which were :tack's;
to cause deatlLL-Tfiwltiry- .the
body, and on theit return, .
The'CORONER 'said tber utitild iwititsmacti-
dental death, occasioned by fa linvfo. the window.
A Juror said it should be accompanied with their
opinion that no blame•could attach to the mistress.
The CORONRR said it was a pity it was at all al-
lowed: it was a bad practice altogether. •
A verdict was then returned of" Accidental Death."

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.-(From the Cam-
brian.—Further particulars.)—A number of persons
who had been attending Divine Worship at a Calvi-
nistic Chapel at Lansamlet, desirous of reaching home
by a less circuitous route than crossing the regular
ferry, about SO got into a small boat at Foxhole, a little
above the town, and had nearly reached the opposite
shore, when the boat came in contact with a vessel
that was moored to the quay, contiguous to the pipe-
' manufactory. This circumstance, though trivial in'
itself, snalarmed the women, that they all rushed to
the same side of the boat, which was immediately
upset, and -ihe whole of the persons in it (with the
exception of two, who were fortunate enough to leap
into shallow water) were precipitated into the current
of the liver, at the time rendered-more rapid by a
strong flood that prevailed. The scene that now en-
sued -was painfully awful: men and women were
seen struggling to gain the shore, and the shrieks of
thelatter for assistance were heart-rending in the ex-
treme. Every exertion was made by theseamen and
others present to save the unfortunate persons from
perishing, and through their praiseworthy effot ts se-
venteen or eighteen were brought on shore; but, alas!
ten of the number sunk to rise no more. The bodies
of the unfortunate sufferers (with the exception of that
of Llewellyn Thomas, a coppersmith, aged 24 years)
were found on the same evening, and on the follow-
ing day • they have since been interred by their sor•
rowfatfi:iends, and the regret felt4or their untimely
fate was evinced by the concourse of people who at-
tended on this solemn occasion. 'Those who perished
were—Wiltiam Beddoe, shoemaker, aged 46 years,
(on whom an afllicted wife was dependent for subsist-
ence), and his grandson, George Beddoe, a' child,
about six years old; Richard Jones, shoemaker,. aged.
fifteen ; John Rogers, tailor, aged twenty-fivelleav-
ing a pregnant wife and two small children to lament;
his melancholy . fate); Margaret . David, aged 27,
Margaret Williams, !tied 21, and Elizabeth 'Mathew,
aged 15 (first *cousins), of near Swansea; Eli—
zabeth John, of Cnap; -near Swansea-,'aged' 24; and.
Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Mr. Jones, baker, of
Greeohill, Swansea, aged :14. This lass named. indi:
vidual was to have been, mart-lett on:Moridar neat to
a young man named Owens; who, in hilitteitipts to
-save her life had 'nearly &tied theiltid-fittit with
herself. Inquests were held-on the blidies on-Monday
by Dr. J. C. Collins; Cormier, when the eerdicts were
of course the same in each, viz.—Areidental peak-
Imprisonment for debt has in effect beenabolishod
at Albany, in the United States, by:the Coirri-of Com-
mon Pleas ; whlals his extended liMits so
km to talc in nearly the whole. city. -