Star.
London, England, 1825-12-03 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Tuesday, an Inquest was held at Plymouth, before
R. J. SQUIRE, Esq. Coroner, touching the death of Mr.
George Hugh Chambers, Midshipman of his Majesty's
ship Genoa, and attached to the Reynard tender, who
was drowned on the evening previous, in Mill Bay,
during a severe gale. It appeirs that on Monday
evening, about six o'clock, the deceased was ordered in
command of the gig, to take some of the Officers on
shore and return with the boat. The evening was very
daik, and the wind blew so strong that the_ coxswain
overshot the landing-place at Sandy Cove, and in
going round the quay to the other landing-place, the
boat got on a rock and immediately turned over. All
hands, ten in the whole, were thrown into the water
It was close in-shore, but the sea was rolling over the
boat heavily. The deceased, Lieutenant Hardy, and
two others clung to the boat, but a tremendous sea
washed them off, and the deceased immediately disap-
peared. Lieutenant Hardy swam to the shore, and the
two :nen fortunately regained their hold, and were
rescued from their perilous situation by Mr. Thomas
Brown Sandsbury, Mate of the tender, who having
reached the shore in safety, as well as the remainder of
the persons who were in the gig, and hearing their cries
fer help, swam off and dragged them to the shore.—
Immediate search was spade for the body; and the aid
of a lanthorn being procured, after some time, they
found the boat washed on shore a little distance from
where she struck ; the body of the deceased was laying
near it. It was immediately conveyed to a public-
house near, and assistance procured, but the vital spark
was quite extinct. Verdict—Accidentally Drowned.

A boy, who was burnt at Wells, Somersetshire, on the
sth ult. by a squib, has since died in consequence.
Saturday, a large sum of the new Silver Coinage,
nearly 50,0001. arrived at the Custom Houses, Limerick,
under care of the Commissariat from Dublin, prepara-
tory to exchanging the Old Bank Tokens on the sth of
December next.

The foreign exchanges were higher yesterday, but
those on the north of Europe more particularly. The
scarcity of money limits all the operations of this kind,
and a great number of bills remained over. For bills on
Frankfort, Vienna, and Trieste, no money could be ob-
tained, except at such an advance as the parties drawing
would not submit to.

IMPERIAL DISTILLERY COMPANY.—A Meeting of cer-
tain shareholders of this Company took place yesterday,
at BATSON'S Coffeehouse, when, after complaining-that
the Directors had spent 30,0001. without the sanction of
a Public Meeting, and that the greater number of shares
had not been paid on, it was proposed to declare that
the Company did not exist. This resolution was, how.
ever, rejected by a majority of one, and the Meeting
separated without having done anything.
A duel was fought yesterday morning, in Battersea-
fields, between two Gentlemen named HUNTINGDON and
bleTcars, the former of whom was wounded on the
side of the head severely,- but not dangerously. The
parties and their friends wart to the Red House by
water, where they prepared for combat.
Atansusto FlRE.—This morning, between twelve
and one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the house
of Mr. Wicker, baker,. near Oakley-street, Waterloo-
road. The watchman, who was Cie first to discover
the fire, alarmed Mr. Wicker, who, with his wife and
two children, made their escape almost in a state of
nudity, to the Toll-house. The engines were pr3mpt
on the spot, and, aided by a plentiful supply of water,
confined the flames us the above house, which was re-
duced to a heap of ruins.
Mr. Henry Squire, a volunteer of the second class,
belonging to his Majesty's ship Shamrock, Capt.ih
Martin White, now in Plymouth harbour, was nti,sed
from his cot on the moaning of Monday, tile 21st ul,.
He had retired to rest at eleven o'clock the preceding
night, but when his turn of duty came, at tour o'clock
the following morning, be was nowhere to be found.
His bed had t very appearance of having been occupied,
though the linen was quite cold, and his apparel lay in
ihe same po3ition as seen the night before. It was sup-
posed that he had walked overboard in his sleep unob-
served by the sentinel who was on deck, or by the cot•
poral of the watch, who was below. Though every
means was tried arid drag-nets were used in various
'parts of Hamoaze, the body was nut found until Wed-
nesday morning, when a boat's crew belonging to the
same vessel, a bile passing down the harbour, observed
.a corpse arise to the surface of the water, which proved
to be the body of the unfortunate young tientlcroan.