Star.
London, England, 1822-04-12 00:00:00

IVORTHING, APRIL 11.

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This highly-distinguished watering-place has, by
virtue of a recent Act of Parliament, undergone ♦a-
rious conspiauous improvements under the able di-
rections of our Town Comtnissioners ; we particu-
larize the elevation of the Esplanade, for its promi-
nent accommodation, extending from east to west
nearly a mile in length of unmolested promenade;
the new foot-stone pavement, with an additional
number of lamps, generally adopted throughout the
town ; and facility of the new royal patent coaches to
and from the Metropolis, in six hours, which has ren-
dered it not inferior in point of attractions to any
watering-place in the kingdom.
ELEGANT GLASSES, FURNITURE, -
No-
bility and Gentry are invited to inspect the Ware-
room. of COOPER and So N, 93, Bishopsgate-street
Within, where is exhibited an assortment of new and
second-hand Plate Glasses, admiiably suited to every
description of drawing or dining-rooms. In the fur-
niture department is comprised every new and ele-
gant article of upholstery, cabinet, and chair-work,
the prices of which are reduced to such a scale of
economy as to attract and ensure the patronage of
rank and fashion.

HARD TINIES.—That you may know how scarce
money is, it has been remarked that there is but one
quarter of a dollar in Worthington (Ohio), and that
has been borrowed so much from one to another to
pay portages, that it is worn smooth, and is now a 20
cent. piece.— Washington Gaulle.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—An Inquisition was held on
Tuesday, before Mr. UNwIX, one of the Coroners for
Middlesex, on Lucy .7,ml:son, an unfortunate woman,
whose body was taken out of the Regent's Canal on
Sunday, at one o'clock in the morning. From the
evidence of two watchmen, it appeat ed that the de-
ceased was seen in the City-road, between twelve and
one o'clock in the morning, excessively intoxicated.
She walked towards the bridge ; shortly afterwards
a plunge was heard, and the deceased was seen
struggling in the water. She was taken out soon
a'ter, and conveyed to the neare:>t public-house, which
was the Windsor Castle. The landlord was up; the
watchman (Inwood) and several other persons asked
him for Con's sake to admit the woman into the
house to save her life. She was then warm. The
landlord said he would not take in his own sister, or
any other person. lie then shut down his window,
and took away the light. Witness doubted whether
she had been under the water.—W. Brookes, surgeon,
saw the woman lying on a table in front of the pub-
lic-house; pulsation had ceased, but the body was
warm. Thou;.;lit there was a possibility, if she bad
been admitted into the house immediately, and appa-
ratus had Leen used, life might have been saved. He
tt ied eve: y means in his power to restore animation,
but without effect.—The Jury returned a Verdict,
i• Found drowned."—The Coroner, referring to some
late instances of a similar nature, and in reply to some
questions put to him by the Jury, said that he wished
it to be understood as a general principle, that publi-
cans were legally bound to admit into their houses
persons in extremity, who cannot otherwise be pro-
vided for. The law of humanity, was said by the late
Lord Chief Justice to be anterior to all positive law,
because it was a part of Christianity, which is parcel
of the common law of the land, and it cannot be
broken with impunity by persons whose houses are
licensed expressly for the public convenience. If the
Surgeon's evidence had gone further, the facts might
have warranted a criminal charge; but in the absence
of stronger testimony, he thought the case amounted
to a misdemeanour; which offence, as well as the con-
sideration whether the license of the house should be
continued to the individual in possession, were fit to be'
referred to the jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrate.
Monday, an Inquest was held before Mr. C ARTTA n,
Coroner for Kent, at the Red Lion and Wheatsheaf,
at-Deptford, on view of the body of a man unknown,
who was found dead in his bed on that morning.
It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased ap-
plied at the public-house for a lodging on Sunday
afternoon, and about eight o'clock on that night he
went to bed apparently in good health, and quite
sober. There were two other beds in the same room
in which the deceased slept, and in which two other!
men also afterwards went to bed, but without taking
,any notice of the deceased, nor did they speak to him
or hear anything of him during the night; about six
o'clock in the morning of Monday, one of them got
up and dressed himself, and as he was going out of
the room, he looked at the deceased, who be
thought appeared like a corpse ; he immediately ex 7
pressed his opinion to the other man,'and on examining
farther, they both satisfied themselves he was dead.
They immediately called tip the landlord of the house,
but no remedy could avail, nor could any account be
given of who the deceased was, or the immediate
cause of his death. On searching his pockets, an old
pocket-book,with a one-pound note mar ked"Forged,"
and is. 6d. in silver, were found ; also a hawker's
• license for the last year, in the name of William Law-
son, of the City of Lincoln, and a card with the name
11' Jonas, Holywell-street, Strand,' on it; but whether
either of those were the names of the deceased, re-
mained uncertain : the body now lies at the cemetery
of St. Paul's, Deptford, to be owned, where any per-
son desirous of seeing it may be permitted, on appli-
cation to the Churchwardens. The deceased was very
decently dressed, and between 50 and 60 years of age.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Found dead, with-
out any marks of violence, or suspicion of violence,
,erson ; and therefore sudden death by the visi-
:on."

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