Star.
London, England, 1805-01-10 00:00:00

CGRO.V Sl. ZUESTS.

An Inquifitinn w held on Monday lan, before
Mr. Clronei for the county of Middiefez, in
the tura Shott,litch, on view of the body of W.
Cohen.

Werter Smith, a lad aged ts, depofed that on Fri-
day laft he was with another lad acrofs the
fields from bhoreditch to Hackney-road ; that in a
field near the l3un-houfe, called the Fourteen Acres,
he difcovered the deceated, lying in a narrow ditch,
in which theta was about a foot depth of water, with
his face downwards. He was much alarmed, and
ran to Come men who were at work in a clay•pit near,
who affilled in taking the body out. He was quite
dead.

John May Paid he had formerly lived as coachman
with W. Mainwaring, Efq. but of late had refided
in Bloomlbury. He had known the deceafed for
eight years pall, and believed him to be upwards of
sixty years of age. He faw him on Thurfdal, morn-
ing laft, about eleven o'clock, when he Paid he was'
going to the Roman Catholic Chapel; he returned
home no more, but was met by a fervant of Dr.
Franks,about fix o'clock the fame evening, to whom
he laid he was in fea eh of an old flicad and country-
man, whom be would Lind out before he went to bed.
The witnefs flatted his full convietion that the intel-
leas of the &ceded were highly difordered ; and im-
puted to that caufe his Laving wandered to furl a dif-
lance Isom his home, and the (hocking fituation in
which he was afterwards difcovered. He Paid he
was at times given to drinking.
The Corrner obferved, from the nature of the place
in which the deeeafed was found, no intention could
' be tcafonably ir.ferred, on his part, to put a petiod
to his exifience. The more natural conclufion was,
the unhappy ot,j'ea of the enquiry, through fatigue,
or pet haps enfeebled by intoxication, to which it ap-
pratA lie was aJdijted, had fallen into the place in
w:lich he was found, and w.ts ur.ahle to exts irate him-
felf. If the Jury agreed with him they would return
his death accidenta:; but if they colleeed .from the
evidence that the deemed had by his own a. termi-
nated his life, fuels would be their scythe! ; but no
felony could attach, as it had been fworn the deceaf.
ed was not of found underaanding, but lunatic and
deranged. Verdia—Accidental Death.
An fugue& was likewise held on the Lody of a boy
i fOlutd hear Elk-Lux chowncd- It aprcat cd he

had fallen overboard while reeving a rope through a
block on the bowfprit of a velfel.—Verdia, Acciden-
tal death.

Another Tnqiieft was held at the Ship Tavern,.
Charing Crofs, on the body of Eiiz. Tao Lid, found
drowned in thz bafon in the Green Park on Friday
lA. It apise:rri-d that the LlN7e.afed was niece to Mr.
Tantield, of the Triumphal Car public-houfe,
dilly, and had lived with him a, Imam upwards of
three yews.
T. Tanfirld, brother of the deceafed, flated that on
Thurfday fix weeks fhe left the bode of her iinele,
and the latter was ignorant where the was until the
body was difenvered in the manner alr,..nly deferibed.
J. Sutton tlated, that the deer:lied, in colifeiptenee
of a ennui:lon on her head, wh:n a child, fittkred
under a deranvil Hate : her family did
not, however, entertain the leaa forpicioa of the ac-
ciJent, or any attempt meditated on her nun life.
No evidenCe appelred to afccrtaiir by what means
the &reared came ii, the bafon. The Jury returned
a vetdia—Found drowned.